Phaedra

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:57:50
Personnel: Peter Baumann (flute, electric piano, organ, synthesizer); Edgar Froese (flute, Mellotron, synthesizer, bass guitar); Christoph Franke (keyboards, synthesizer, Moog synthesizer). Audio Remasterer: Ben Wiseman . Recording information: The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire (12/1973). Widely considered one of Tangerine Dream's masterworks, fallout from the sonic phenomenon that is PHAEDRA can still be found lingering in the ambient movement of the early '90s and in much of contemporary electronica. The aural architecture that the band built from scratch remains unparalleled. Tangerine Dream was truly ahead of its time--the four epic-length tracks on PHAEDRA revealed a band that fully understood--and loved to manipulate--the complex array of knobs, dials, and switches that protruded from their synthesizer facades. The title track is an almost spooky exercise in synth/sequencer tension and dynamics: while eerie atmospheres of Mellotron go head to head with spiraling Moogs, dense, humming sequencer webs percolate along the surface, motile and mobile. The album's closer, "Sequent C," leaves the listener breathless, as black electronic clouds form and dissipate and the surrounding space becomes corporeal sound. PHAEDRA remains one of the seminal recordings of the electronic movement, and stands up--even years later--as an original, stunning piece of music.