Tangerine Dream

Turn Of The Tides

- Studio, released February 1994 -

Covers

CD release Europe 1994 Design: Marc Schilkowski	CD release UK 1995 Design: Marc Schilkowski
CD release Germany 1999 Design: Edgar Froese	CD release Germany 2009

Tracks


		[a]	[b]
1.	Pictures At An Exhibition	3:01	3:01
2.	Firetongues	6:32	6:32
3.	Galley Slave's Horizon	7:47	7:47
4.	Death Of A Nightingale	5:30	5:30
5.	Twilight Brigade	9:45	9:45
6.	Jungle Journey	6:34	6:34
7.	Midwinter Night	4:38	4:38
8.	Turn Of The Tides	7:40	7:40
9.	Story Of The Brave	-	5:17
Total running time		51:27	56:44

Details


Recording date	1993 - 1994
Recording site(s)	The Galley (Berlin) & Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s)	Christian Gstettner, Lenny Bird
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Modest Mussorgsky
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Roland Braunstein, Zlatko Perica, Linda Spa, Vienna Horn Ensemble, Jayney Klimek, Julie Ocean
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese

Notes

The 1994 studio album Turn Of The Tides was a kind of stylistic further development of previous records: Not only the original cover and CD body artwork -- abstracted gear wheels, completed with fractals -- reminds of Rockoon, but also the music. Besides electronic equipment, TD were using guitar, sax and backing vocals again. The opening piece, Maurice Ravel's orchestral version of Modest P. Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (1874), features keyboards, trumpet, soprano sax and horns. In March 1994 there was an official presentation of Turn Of The Tides in Italy.

The 12-page booklet not only shows photographs of the band, but also contains a 4-page short story reporting about the experiences of a certain John Calyx who leaves his hometown in 1881 to find his brother. After having arrived at the city of Arca he finds that all the landscape and buildings disappear when he passes the gate and a banner stating "Welcome to the Turn of The Tides". The story has references to most of the titles of the album tracks, and it is mentioned to be an excerpt from "The Coachman's Tales" by Edgar Froese. However, there is no book titled like this to be found in a bookstore.

Re-Releases

The UK releases of 1995 and 1996 (as well as all later re-issues of the album) feature the bonus track Story Of The Brave that was previously available on Turn Of The Tides CD-5 only.

In 1999 the CD was re-released by TDI with a completely different cover artwork, this time designed by Edgar Froese.

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


Canada	1994: Miramar CD [a]: MPCD 2806 CD [a]: CMPCD 2806
Europe	1994: Virgin CD [a]: 839 454-2
Germany	1999: TDI/EFA CD [b]: 63019-2; there exist two different booklet/insert versions; on one of them track 9 is not mentioned in the track listing (though it appears on the CD) 2009: Membran CD [b]: 232651; digipack
Italy	1994: Les Folies Art CD [a]: LFAD 1234
Malaysia	1994: Divine/FORM CD [b]: FR CD 20046
Spain	1995: PDI CD [a]: 80.3418 VCD-528
UK	1995: Coast To Coast/Zabo CD [b]: CTCZ 108 1996: TDI CD [b]: TDI003CD
USA	1994: Miramar CD [a]: MPCD 2806
Turn Of The Tides was also released as part of the set The Grammy Nominated Albums.