Tangerine Dream

Paradiso

- Studio, released September 2006 -

Covers

CD release Germany 2006 Artwork: Edgar Froese	Download release 2007 Artwork: Edgar Froese
HQCD release Japan 2009 with obi	CD release Germany 2009

Tracks


1.	La Grande Spirale	1	10:08
2.	Beyond Sodom And Gomorrha		10:14
3.	La Ley De La Montana		7:38
4.	A Cielo Della Luna		12:50
5.	Mercury Sphere		6:15
6.	L'Era Della Venere		11:51
7.	Invisible Sun		9:25
8.	Jupiter Lightning	2	8:12
9.	La Forza Del Saturno		18:18
10.	Stars In Distance Glow		7:43
11.	No More Birth, No More Death		8:37
12.	Transformazione		10:46
13.	Truth Beyond Thoughts		6:08
14.	L'ultima Tromba d'Oro		8:20
15.	Leaving		7:01
Total running time		143:26

Details


Recording date	2005
Recording engineer(s)	Edgar Froese
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning, Iris Camaa, Linda Spa, Jayney Klimek, Barbara Kindermann, Tatjana Kouchev, Saskia Klumpp, Bianca Froese-Acquaye, Fridolin Johann Harms, The Brandenburg Symphonic Orchestra, Neuer Kammerchor Potsdam
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese

Notes

Paradiso is the third part of Tangerine Dream's Dante trilogy that consists of the following albums:

Inferno (2002)
Purgatorio (2004)
Paradiso (2006)

Unlike the other parts, this one was recorded with support of a full orchestra.

From the FAQ section of the official Tangerine Dream siteQ: "On one of your latest releases, Paradiso, which was composed by you exclusively, what was the most crucial part as far as the orchestration goes?"

Edgar Froese: "There were both major and minor problems. To name them all here would take half of the FAQ on this site. After composing most of the stuff on a grand piano and arranging everything on synth modules and plug-ins, the two hour and eight minute long piece had to be arranged for a 58 piece orchestra, for solo voices, a choir and couple of solo instruments. The conductor I worked with is a pretty experienced guy and generally easy to work with. But one should know that such an orchestra arrangement where synths and acoustic instruments aren't battling against each other, but are rather melting into one great body of sounds, is a real sensitive experience you have to fight through.
Of course, it is not enough to assign the synth voices to the orchestra instruments, to note double layers or, if necessary, transpose keys, when piano tunes shall be played with a flute. Of course, these basic capacities are requirements that must be fulfilled by all the participants. A problematic point is the use of so-called ornaments, which is part of the playing technique of orchestra instruments, if the ornaments sound constructed, kitschy or spoil the composition of the sound. Compared to the synthetic sound, the dynamic composition of the acoustic sound is very difficult. On the synthesizer, you just use a few buttons in order to change immediately a frequency picture or the volume or you in order to program exactly a crescendo or a filter graph. An orchestra cannot be controlled with buttons used for giving global orders. Besides, in an orchestra, people are always playing ad libitum, that means that, in spite of the conductor and the timing requirements, there is a permanent 'human imprecision'. When the orchestra is playing alone, you will hardly notice this imprecision. If the bass note of a sequencer runs parallelly, all the imprecision is remorselessly uncovered. Much to the disappointment of the poor orchestra musicians who actually play as well as they usually do. Taking all this into account and, in addition, changing the speed of the music 15 times with partly perfect accelerando phases of 2 minutes, are just some examples of problems which could finally be solved."

Notably, the track listing on the back insert of the intial CD release lists eight (instead of seven) tracks for disc one and seven (instead of eight) for disc two. This mistake was fixed on later releases.

The Paradiso Zoom-O-Graphic

The front cover artwork is based on a Zoom-O-Graphic by Edgar Froese, titled The Very Last Second of John the Baptist.

Re-Releases

In January 2007 this release became available as MP3 download at the Tangerine Dream Download Shop.

In March 2009 the album was re-released with different cover design as part of an extensive digipack series (consisting of a total of more than 60 CD and DVD releases) by the Germany based Membran record label, and in May 2009 it was re-released in Japan as part of a series of HiQualityCDs with mini LP paper sleeves.

Releases


Germany	2006: Eastgate 2CD: eastgate 011 CD; slim double jewel case; multicoloured discs; matrix code: EGVP101CD; no order number on disc or sleeve 2007: Eastgate Download: complete release or individual tracks as MP3 2009: Membran 2CD: 232619; digipack
Japan	2009: WHD Entertainment 2HQCD: IECP-20170/20171; cardboard sleeve, obi; limited edition Promo-2HQCD: IECP-20170/20171; same as regular release, but with additional red promo sticker
Paradiso was also released as part of the set La Divina Commedia.