Tangerine Dream - Live in Brussels (9 February 1976)

On 9th February 1976, Tangerine Dream was playing at the Auditorium Paul-Emile Janson in Brussels (Belgium). It was a fantastic show, one of the best live performances of the trio Baumann, Franke and Froese in this period. Fortunately, someone in the audience recorded the show. This 1st generation tape was re-mastered by 3N and a splendid artwork was created by Giuseppe Milazzo. This concert is volume 27 of the Tangerine Tree Project, gathering almost all the live performances of the band.  It should be noticed that Tangerine Dream gave its agreement to this project, as far as it was a non-profit venture, produced by fans to fans.  The music is "a perfect mix of sequencers, mellotrons, guitar". One should add that it was one of the most creative period of Tangerine Dream and that their live performances were unique events where improvisation played a very important part.  This Brussels concert was exceptional by the interplay between the three musicians: some parts remind Ricochet or Encore, two official live recordings.

The sound quality is very good, and the silence of the audience is just impressive... Tangerine Dream concerts had such an hypnotical power...

I hope you will enjoy, and I will post in the future a selection of Tangerine Dream shows, my personal "best of" for the musical as well as for the audio quality...

link: mp3  :  2 parts

TDTr27.1.zip

TDTr27.2..zip

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Tim Blake - Blake's New Jerusalem (1978)

Tim Blake is a British musician living in France since 1971. He was a member of Gong and of Hawkind (1979-1980, 2000 and 2007). He was also a pioneer of electronic music: he was among the first users of the EMS Synthy A and founded Crystal Machine, an innovative concept linking electronic music to spectacular laser shows. His main partner was Patrice Warenner, in charge with all the visual aspects of the shows. Bernard Szajner was also involved into the lasers programming. 

Crystal Machine's concerts were avant-garde shows, providing  the audience with a multisensorial experience, something like a trip through the outer space. As a matter of fact, when Tim Blake was playing live, he entered the stage on a skateboard,  with incredible silver clothes... He looked as  a Martian astronaut, although I did not meet any other Martian beside him... ;-)

In november 1977, Tim Blake released his first LP, Crystal Machine, with live recordings from his concerts.

Blake's New Jerusalem was his second LP, released in 1978. A 17 years old musician, Jean-Philipe Rykiel, played as a guest on this album: his incredible virtuosity and musical feeling adds a superb touch to Time Blake's music, especially with some fantastic minimoog solos. Jean-Philippe Rykiel, who is blind, had and still has a great musical career on his own.

Blake's New Jerusalem remains today (thirty years after his release !) a fantastic piece of electronic and space music. Tim Blake's universe was different from those of German pioneers such as Klaus Schulze, Kratfwerk or Tangerine Dream, although he used the same kind of analogic synthesizers, with EMS Synthies and Moog Modular System...  The vintage synthies used on Blake's New Jerusalem provide it with a unique feeling and sonic colour.

Tim Blake's universe was very original too, and his music was a mixture of space rock and cosmic lyricism. I still love the mood of this recording,  very "space out" and psychedelic, and Jean-Philippe Rykiel's solos add a great colour to the whole picture. 

Tim Blake is still very active and released several albums since the seventies:

- Magic (1991)

- The Tide of the Century. Crystal Island (2000)

- Caldea Musique vol. 2

etc

If you are lucky, you could perhaps attend one of his concerts in Europe, with Hawkwind or as a solo artist.

 

Link to mp3/320

TBNJ.zip

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