news. TANGERINE DREAM – „50 years of Phaedra: At The Barbican“ ab 30.1.26

Eine Gedenkvorstellung im Londoner Barbican zu Ehren des 50-jährigen Jubiläums des bahnbrechenden Albums in drei atemberaubenden Editionen. 
30.01. TANGERINE DREAM – „50 years of Phaedra: At The Barbican“ (Kscope/Edel)

In 1974, Phaedra redefined the landscape of electronic music. What began as an experimental session at Richard Branson’s Manor Studios in Oxfordshire became a seismic event in modern sound. Using the Moog sequencer for the first time, Tangerine Dream – then comprised of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann – crafted Phaedra, an album that shimmered with innovation, mystery and a palpable sense of discovery.

Half a century later, Tangerine Dream returned to London’s Barbican to honour that landmark work – reimagining it for a new era. Across its three vinyl LPs, 50 Years of Phaedra: At the Barbican captures this transcendent live performance, in which the current line-up – Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, and Paul Frick – revisit the spirit of Phaedra with the very tools that Froese and his collaborators helped pioneer.

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Part of Phaedra’s magic lay in its imperfections: the original sequences were never truly quantised, their timing drifting unpredictably through the Moog’s analogue circuitry. That subtle instability became part of its charm – a human pulse within the machine – yet it long left current bandleader Thorsten Quaeschning intrigued by what a fully realised version might reveal. Now, fifty years later, Tangerine Dream have revisited the work with the precision that technology once denied them. 50 Years of Phaedra: At the Barbican is the first time Phaedra has been performed fully quantised, each motif beautifully aligned with a crystalline precision previously unheard.

Quelle & ©: cmm-online.de // KScope