Green Desert
Green Desert | ||||
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Released | January 1986 | |||
Recorded | Skyline Studios, Berlin August 1973, with additional remixing in 1984 | |||
Genre | Electronic, krautrock | |||
Length | 38:22 | |||
Label | Jive Electro | |||
Producer | Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke | |||
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Green Desert is the twenty-seventh major release and the fifteenth studio album by electronic artists Tangerine Dream. The music was recorded in Berlin in 1973, during a period when Peter Baumann had temporarily left Germany to tour Nepal and India.[2] Though unreleased at the time, it landed Tangerine Dream a record deal when Virgin heard the tapes.[3] A remixed version of the music was released in 1986.
The group had recently acquired new equipment including a Minimoog, a phaser, and an EKO ComputeRhythm which could be pre-programmed and/or changed on-the-fly while it was playing. Chris Franke considered the six[4] internal sounds to be "pretty lousy" but, due to its flexibility as a sequencer, later modified it as a controller to trigger external sounds.[3] This rhythmic effect was featured in several of Tangerine Dream's later albums.
Track listing
[edit]All songs written by Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Green Desert" | 19:25 |
2. | "White Clouds" | 5:01 |
3. | "Astral Voyager" | 7:03 |
4. | "Indian Summer" | 6:53 |
Personnel
[edit]- Edgar Froese - synthesizers, guitars, keyboards
- Christopher Franke - drums, percussion, synthesized percussion, synthesizers
Additional personnel
- Pete Beaulieu – engineering
- Mark Weinberg – sleeve design
References
[edit]- ^ Tangerine Dream, Green Desert at AllMusic
- ^ Green Desert, The Collector's Tangerine Dream Discography
- ^ a b Pendergast, Mark (December 1994). "Tangerine Dream: Changing Use of Technology, Part 1: 1967-1977". Sound on Sound. SOS Publications Group.
- ^ Synthhead (2009-08-25). "The EKO ComputeRhythm – Jean Michel Jarre's Drum Machine". Synthtopia. Retrieved 2019-01-29.