Christopher Franke was a member of Tangerine Dream from Alpha Centauri (1971) through Canyon Dreams (1987). He originally joined the Dream as an 18-year-old drummer, having previously played with Agitation Free. Along with founder Edgar Froese, Franke was a principal architect of the Tangerine Dream sound through the 70s and early 80s. His sequencer work…
Franke’s first is like listening to a forty-minute commercial for Napa Valley wine.
Franke’s two-man live shows strolls through Pacific Coast Highway and a few other familiar stops with pleasant results.
Eno and Tangerine Dream come to mind, but best to put them out of your mind for the time being. These are not short, ambient pieces (they are short) but snippets from soundtracks. Not the avant-garde electronic soundtracks that Tangerine Dream used to write, but a traditional blending of orchestra and synthesizer. Of all the…
The guy from Tangerine Dream playing music that sounds like Tangerine Dream, which happens less than you’d think.
New age music from the former TD mainstay linked to the new age philosophy of The Celestine Prophecy book.
I wrote the AMG review for the first volume, so when I saw the second volume of New Music For Films I couldn’t resist buying it. This illustrates something that I think is very important in criticism: context. Comparing the first volume to the work of Tangerine Dream (and to a lesser extent, its titular…