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The Sessions III
Weird that they call this an EP when its nearly 80 minutes long!!
"The EP contains two real time live compositions from the Tangerine Dream. Recorded at the classic concert hall Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in February 2018 and Volksbühne in Berlin in November 2017."
"The Sessions series is published in memory of Tangerine Dream's legendary member Edgar Froese ("our musical hero" as the band stated) who sadly died on January 20th in 2015, with the current line-up Thorsten Quaeschning (synthesizers, piano and sequencer), Ulrich Schnauss (synthesizers and sequencer) and Hoshiko Yamane (electric violin and viola). The first edition Sessions I contains recordings from concerts in Budapest and Hong Kong early 2017. The second version entitled Sessions II was recorded at the annual Dutch EM festival KLEM in October 2017. And this third effort entitled Sessions III was recorded in the German citiesHamburg and Berlin (in 2018).
This CD Sessions III is my first musical encounter with the post-Edgar Froese Tangerine Dream era. And I am pleasantly surprised, to me the music sounds as a wonderful blend of 75-80 Tangerine Dream sound (my favourite TD music) and ambient. Both tracks are very long (in the old days this would have been a double vinyl album) but succeed to keep my attention, due to flowing shifting moods and tasteful work on the synthesizers, sequencers, percussion and electric violin/viola. The one moment it's soaring strings and Mellotron flutes, a hypnotizing blend of violin/viola, synthesizers and sequencers, dreamy with piano or a distorted (like wah-wah) electric violin solo. The other moment we can enjoy pulsating sequencers, tender violin/viola and assorted percussion or mellow piano and percussion and final parts with dreamy strings and beautiful violin/viola play.
Worth to discover, I am looking forward to listen to the Sessions I, II and IV" - ProgArchives