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Article: Tangerine Dream presents audience with a challenge
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 26, 1988
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So much of what is now called New Age music is old hat to
Tangerine Dream. For more than two decades, the German synthesizer
trio has specialized in sounds that are atmospheric, evocative,
repetitive and meditative.
Where the band's progressivism was once considered psychedelic -
the sound track for mental voyages into the acid unknown - its
current "Optical Race" album could easily serve as background music
for a late '80s wine and cheese party.
New Age or no, the band's concert at Poplar Creek was most
definitely a foreground experience, a welcome departure for those of
us who consider so much contemporary instrumental music to be a form
of sonic Valium. Instead of simply attempting ...