Tangerine Dream at the Albert Hall review
Major British newspaper The Times has posted a review of Tangerine Dream’s concert on 1 April at the Albert Hall.
Reviewer Will Hodgkinson asks this rhetorical question:
Way back in 1970 Tangerine Dream was a revolutionary proposition. Pioneering the use of early sequencers, digital technology and 30-minute musical pieces devoid of choruses, vocals or indeed song structures of any kind, Edgar Froese’s band created about as much atmosphere as three motionless German men lost in a sea of electrical cables are capable of.
That year their concert at the Albert Hall caused a mass outbreak of furrowed brows amid the greatcoat-wearing youth of London. Four decades on, with synthesizer and New Age music long established, even pilloried genres, could Tangerine Dream still weave that magical spell?
Read the complete review here.
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I was at the concert. As an old fan – I listened to phaedra at Loughborough Uni in ’74, at two hours into the concert I wanted to leave. I’d had enough, but with friends? And having waited months for the experience.
The engineering wasn’t that good – the Hall’s normally good, adjustable sonics, weren’t matched and there were a few low req resonances that were quite nasty. It was too loud for this genre. What’s wrong with not driving the amplification into distortion? The sound scape was very very busy at times with leads and counters fighting for presence – the net effect confusing. There is the suggestion of egos fighting for importance in the lineup.
TD had become too self indulgent and has forgotten about the experience of its audience, at least that’s my impression.