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Elementa (1998), creates a soundscape so intoxicating and permutable, so enraptured with its own sounds and textures, with its overblown harmonic crackles and dripping sedimentary layers, that the listener wants to burrow into every sample and settle there. Mr. Risset’s homage to the elements has an almost pagan sensuality encompassing the infinite and mundane simultaneously. Elementa is formally, sonically, and emotionally convincing. The four movements sound well individually, but together they showcase a composer completely in command of his own voice.
Video created with Sonic Visualizer and vokoscreen on Kubuntu 14.04 (Linux).
Elementa (1998), creates a soundscape so intoxicating and permutable, so enraptured with its own sounds and textures, with its overblown harmonic crackles and dripping sedimentary layers, that the listener wants to burrow into every sample and settle there. Mr. Risset’s homage to the elements has an almost pagan sensuality encompassing the infinite and mundane simultaneously. Elementa is formally, sonically, and emotionally convincing. The four movements sound well individually, but together they showcase a composer completely in command of his own voice.
Video created with Sonic Visualizer and vokoscreen on Kubuntu 14.04 (Linux).
![Tangerine Dream - Movements Of A Visionary / Sequent C [1974]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PnyA5lhELRc/mqdefault.jpg "Tangerine Dream - Movements Of A Visionary / Sequent C [1974]
In Memory Of Edgar Froese (6.6.1944 - 20.01.2015)
Froese was a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as Edgar Froese, his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name Edgar W. Froese.
Phaedra (1974) is an album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
This is the first Tangerine Dream album to feature their now classic sequencer-driven sound, which launched the Berlin School genre. This album marked the beginning of the groups international success and was their first album released on the British Virgin records label. It achieved six-figure sales in the UK, reaching No 15 in the charts in a 15-week run, with virtually no
airplay, only by strong word of mouth. It also earned the group a gold disc in seven countries, and yet in their native Germany it sold barely 6,000 units. [...]
The title track and Movements of a Visionary rely on Christopher Frankes use of the Moog analog sequencer as a substitute for bass guitar. [...] Sequent C is a short but memorable piece by Peter Baumann on flute, with tape echo.
The All Music Guide to Electronica describes the album as a milestone for the band as one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music. Phaedra is commonly cited as one of Tangerine Dreams best albums and is listed in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In the Q and Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album also came in at 38 in its list of 40 Cosmic Rock Albums.
The sleeve design and cover painting are by Froese.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedra_(album))
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