Tangerine Dream... Expanded

Welcome to my recent new followers & subscribers! Today I’m presenting a little piece on my forthcomimg book Tangerine Dream 1967-1985: The Pioneering Years.

As some will know, earlier in the year I extracted four years of unpaid royalties from multiple contract breacher Stephen Lambe, who, I discovered after setting up the Stop Sonicbond campaign, was doing the same thing to sixteen other of his authors. Well, whad'ya know? Turns out today that he's still trying to attract new authors into the same fraudulent Sonicbond scheme. Needless to say, I put them off.

When in January Lambe crumbled under threat of legal action, he left me wondering what to do with my book for him, which ended in 1979. Given that in my opinion the final TD album of significance was 1985's Le Parc, the solution was obvious. Expand the book for 1980-85. And this I have done.

(Cover photo c/o Steve Dinsdale.)

I have self-published this book via amazon, and it will be available from Thursday. The book has six essays appended, some brand new, some reworked from various blog posts. Hopefully this will all be an attractive package at £9.99.

And here's the premiere of the full cover!

Back blurb:

‘From their hippy roots in 1967, through success in Germany, arrival on the world stage in the 1970s via the British label Virgin Records, to groundbreaking musical and technological developments in the early 1980s, this group, piloted by the visionary Edgar Froese, transformed electronic music. For almost two decades, every Tangerine Dream album broke new ground in some way, whether that be in their use of synthesisers, especially sequencers, or in their exploration of new musical vistas. But Edgar Froese was not just a musician, he was an artist and a philosopher too, with much of that philosophy expressed through the group’s music. This was no ordinary musical ride.

Long, unfurling tracks… huge stacks of gear… improvisation and legendary concerts. This music described journeys through a variety of terrains: far-flung countries, high atmosphere flights and subterranean trips, trains across exotic landscapes – then up into high orbit, space, the stars and beyond.

This book focuses on the music – on those extraordinary albums. It tells the stories of that music, which even today, decades later, can be enjoyed as much as when it was fresh. For like all trailblazing art, a Tangerine Dream album still inspires, always enchants, and continues to mesmerise listeners across the planet.

Here you will encounter trees of tangerine beneath skies of marmalade, inner space and outer space. Welcome to the ride!’