Just noticed that I have a compilation CD from Mr. Baumann, Phase by Phase. Will give it a spin.
Also, not sure all the dislike for his later albums. They come from a very different place than his TD work, but are very much of the era they were released. Not essential, but very fun. Anyone ever listen to the Welcome to Joyland albuim?
Track above is fantastic!
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Interview with Peter Baumann (In English, ) as MP3, some music from his new album "Machines of Desire", talk about his time with Tangerine Dream, some of his other projects and much more.
BTW Elektroland is an interesting site with lots of interviews and downlaods
Bj�rn Jeppesen is the host on Elektroland, an electronic music radio show being produced twice a month. Each show lasts for an hour and will feature lots of new releases from the EM scene, and also the more electro and maybe even techno and ambient scene. Bj�rn Jeppesen is also playing some of the old electronic records from both the 70's, 80's and the 90's, mainly from the EM scene.
In the link section you'll find links to many of the bands and artists that are played on Elektroland.
Elektroland is broadcasted through more than 10 different radio stations all over Denmark.
It's also possible to listen to the show if you're outside Denmark. After each show you'll find a link in the "Playlist" section to an mp3 (192 Kbps).
Peter Baumann Interview + some tracks
http://www.nattefrost.dk/elektroland/playlist.htm
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Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
So...while I wait for my copy of the Esoteric "Romance '76" to arrive tomorrow...
"Machines of Desire" is pretty darn good! I honestly wasn't sure what to expect, given how long it had been since PB had really made music. To me, it fits in nicely with his earlier works, albeit with slightly more updated sounds.
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Received Romance '76' a couple of days ago.On one complete listen, my initial reaction is that Meadow of Infinity Part 2(last track) is fantastic, but the rest of the album leaves me somewhat underwhelmed.Pleasant but nothing to write home about.For me, it's a keeper just for the last track but i'm less than dazzled by most of it.Another listen looms today.
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"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Thanks for saying what I've always felt about this album (although I like the entirety of Side 2). Everyone always gushes over it, and I think it's just.... OK. Side 1 is decent but surely nothing special. In fact, some ugly clunker notes in the solos make the whole first side sound almost tentative to me. Side 2 is really what saves the album IMO. It's a wholly unexpected sound and compositional depth for Baumann, and it really engages my imagination.
Really, with the original Virgin CD fetching the amounts that it has on the rare occasions it's turned up for sale, I would definitely have cashed in if it weren't for that 2nd half!
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Okay...now that I've got that out of my system...
I definitely do like the PB albums, but I'd probably stop short of saying they are stone-cold classics for me. I thought they made an interesting counterpoint to both TD's primary work and the stuff that Edgar Froese was releasing solo at the time.
For me personally, the finest "outside the Dream" stuff came a bit later with Johannes Schmoelling's works like "Wuivend Riet" and "White Out."
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According to the liner notes, I think the music was somehow related to a play of that name (JS did a lot of music for theater work, etc.). The final scene involved the actors swaying on long strands, like reeds...I think his interpretation of the title was "Wind-blown Reeds."
It is a lovely piece of work; I can totally respect why fans of the 70's era wouldn't dig this stuff as much but for me, he is the bomb.
Edit: here's the details, as I have them slightly off above: "The two-part title track had originally been composed as theatre music for the play "Opus ESP" by Hans Bosch, premiered 1985 in Amsterdam. The play's final scene shows human figures hanging and swaying on super-human sized reeds."
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I don't know if it's a funny title, but the album has to be in my top 5 TD-related solo albums, up there with Departure from the Northern Wasteland, Epsilon, Timewind and Stuntman.
My guess is that since the track was named from the Dutch play and said track occupies roughly half the album, he decided to make it the title track and retain the Dutch name rather than something else.
In fairness, while his music is probably my favorite from the TD folks, his album titles aren't exactly mystical wonders: Wuivend Riet (Wind-Blown Reeds), Zoo of Tranquility, White Out, Songs No Words, Instant City, etc..
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