Tangerine Dream

Purgatorio

- Studio, released March 2004 -

Covers

CD release Germany 2004 Concept: Edgar Froese Layout: Patrick Schuerfeld Painting: Bianca Froese-Acquaye	CD release Germany 2004 Concept: Edgar Froese Layout: Patrick Schuerfeld Painting: Bianca Froese-Acquaye
Download release 2007 Painting: Bianca Froese-Acquaye	CD release Germany 2009

Tracks


		[a]
1.	Above The Great Dry Land	6:19
2.	Chasing The Bad Seed	8:48
3.	Slave To The Gods	6:31
4.	Hope And Glory	6:44
5.	Sun Son's Seal, Part One	8:21
6.	Beyond All Suns	6:34
7.	Sisyphus	4:37
8.	All The Steps To Heaven	13:12
9.	Mountain Of Destiny	10:51
10.	The Glowing Zodiac Wheel	6:08
11.	Modern Cave Men	5:02
12.	Death Of Medusa	7:23
13.	Blinded By The World's Desire	6:22
14.	Sun Son's Seal, Part Two	8:27
15.	Soulgate	7:59
16.	Till The End Of Silence	5:17
17.	Prison And Paradise	5:39
18.	Spirit Spiral	7:33
Total running time		131:47

Details


Recording date	2003 - 2004
Recording site(s)	Eastgate Studios (Berlin & Vienna)
Recording engineer(s)	Thorsten Quaeschning
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Iris Camaa, Jayney Klimek, Barbara Kindermann, Tatjana Kouchev, Saskia Klumpp, Bianca Froese-Acquaye
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese

Notes

Purgatorio is the second part of the Dante trilogy that consists of the following albums:

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

The album was released on a double CD in March 2004 as a pre-release version available only via internet from the TDI site and selected mail order companies. Similar to Inferno, the official store release was issued a short time later, featuring slightly different cover artwork, including a barcode field that is missing on the pre-release copies. Furthermore the official release has a slightly different sound mix.

The music of Purgatorio is quite similar to that of Inferno but features more instrumental parts and has some stronger, sometimes even catchy melodies.

The Purgatory Painting

The cover artwork is based on an acryl painting by Bianca Froese-Acquaye, titled Still Life of Your Idea.

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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.

Releases


Germany	2004: TDI 2CD: TDI CD036; first release without barcodes 2CD: TDI CD036; second release with barcodes; different booklet; slightly different sound mix 2007: Eastgate Download: complete release or individual tracks as MP3 2009: Membran 2CD: 232656; digipack
Russia	200?: - Counterfeit-2CD: TDI CD036; counterfeit of second German release from 2004; multicoloured disc; matrix codes Indigo CD 4697-2-1/2 and Indigo CD 4697-2-2/2