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Tangerine Dream Le Parc- Studio, released May 1985 - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes | "The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage. Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves but are like a heat haze." - Buddha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1985 album Le Parc was the last official studio release with Johannes Schmoelling, who left Tangerine Dream in October 1985. In another way, too, Le Parc was a turning point in the musical history of Tangerine Dream: the much-beloved atmospheric or 'spacey' 20-minute long epics had gone in favour of nine quite short titles, the longest clocking in at barely over six minutes. Edgar Froese in an interview with Jonathan Miller: "Tangerine Dream is like breathing -- the first 12 or 13 years was breathing out and the other decade is breathing in. The simple concept is the inside and outside world. It's more complicated if you go into it, but breathing in means that by the natural aspect of breathing, it's inside and not spacey. It's not macrocosm, it's microcosm." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edgar Froese has been quoted as saying, "I look at our compositions as travel music, adventure music, much of which has been inspired by the places we've visited over the years." And in fact, Le Parc was inspired by nine parks and gardens around the world. On this album the TD trio was supported by three guest musicians -- including Clare Torry, who also sang on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon back in 1973. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Though the composer credits of all tracks were shared by the three TD musicians, in October 2020 Jerome Froese confirmed that they were composed and performed individually. Chris Franke's only contribution was Yellowstone Park (Rocky Mountains), while Johannes Schmoelling supplied Central Park (New York), Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk) and Hyde Park (London). The remaining five compositions were by Edgar Froese. Jerome Froese: "During the Le Parc production the atmosphere between Edgar and Johannes was already quite tense and everyone worked individually on the songs. I was in Austria at the time when the tunes of Johannes arrived by mail. I remember that Edgar did not like the tracks at all and was extremely upset about them. [...] I think Edgar was a bit annoyed by the excessive use of the PPG Waveterm by Johannes and the tunes sounded too hectic and technical to him. [...] My favorite on Le Parc was always Yellowstone Park. Unfortunately this Shakuhachi flute sound [from the Emulator II sampler] has become so worn out that it is hard to bear nowadays. I know, Chris was one of the first people to own an Emulator I because of his personal connections to E-mu. I hadn't heard the flute sound anywhere else at that time. Nowadays you can't really use it anymore, it's as used up as the typical 80's orchestra hit sample." (Facebook, October 2020) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Le Parc saw several re-releases in CD format throughout the years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In April 2012 the album was re-released by Esoteric Records on their Reactive label as part of a re-issue of the TD back catalogue of the Pink and Blue Years. The album was completely remastered and comes with a nice 16-page booklet including numerous photos plus an essay written by journalist Malcolm Dome. Like some other albums of this re-release series Le Parc comes with a bonus track, the single version of Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk) that is mixed completely different than the album version and had never been released on CD before. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On occasion of the Record Store Day 2019 on April 13th, Culture Factory Records re-released the album on yellow vinyl. Apart from the colour, this re-release is a replica of the album's first US vinyl release from 1985, including the labels. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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