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Article: THE ELECTRONIC WIZARDS OF ROCK TANGERINE DREAM
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The three musicians stand silently, in darkness, at their
banks of synthesizers and computers. Each player looks as if he
were manning a space capsule's command module. Then, the rhythms
begin to pulse, the electronic melodic strands start to dart and
weave. The music is dreamy, hypnotic, heady. It's calm and graceful
at one stretch, tension-fraught at another. It's all instrumental,
all-enveloping.
Is it, perchance, New Age?
Calling Tangerine Dream a New Age group is likely to force a
weary sigh from its founder Edgar Froese.
How does Froese look at New Age?
"We look at it from a very, very high tower," says Froese.
"And we don't see it anywhere."
Well, except in the record ...