Serpent Magique

The liner notes of Views From A Red Train about this composition: "Some old wise books telling us that the real consciousness is like a snake with his tail on earth and his head in heaven. The composer's sequencing software has no note symbols for either earth or heaven. But the laptop found the horizontal snake sign: ∼. If two ∼ signs are mirrored against each other you will have the sign for infinity (∞). Two snakes on the horizontal will meet two snakes on the vertical and cross... well, the composer's laptop underwent a malfunction source during the composing process of this song while being exposed to a blizzard in the Austrian Alps. True story."

There are several official versions of this composition:

the original studio recording from 2008
five slightly different live recordings from 2008 through 2011

Details


Recording year	2008
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese

Records


Tangerine Dream: Official Releases
2008	Views From A Red Train [a]	9:20
	The Epsilon Journey [a] [2008 live version]	11:06
	The Epsilon Journey [b] [2008 live version]	9:29
	The Epsilon Journey [c] [2008 live version]	9:18
2009	The London Eye Concert [a] [2008 live version]	6:30
	The London Eye Concert [b] [2008 live version]	6:30
	The London Eye Concert [c] [2008 live version]	6:20
	Live @ Dussmann Berlin [a] [2009 live version]	6:11
	Rocking Out The Bats [a] [2009 live version]	5:22
	Rocking Out The Bats [b] [2009 live version]	5:22
2011	Knights Of Asheville [a] [2011 live version]	7:59
2013	One Night In Africa [a]	9:19

Live Performances


2008	April 13	Eindhoven Technic University Auditorium (Netherlands)
	November 01	London The Forum Kentishtown (UK)
	November 02	Edinburgh The Picture House (UK)
	November 07	Los Angeles UCLA Royce Hall (USA)
2009	May 30	Berlin Kulturkaufhaus Dussmann (Germany)
	August 29	Northeim Waldbühne (Germany)
	August 30	Berlin Citadelle Spandau (Germany)
2011	October 28	Asheville Thomas Wolfe Auditorium (USA)
2014	April 11	MSC Divina (Caribbean Sea)