Day 5.
Tangerine
Dream: Green Desert
Someone
I knew let me listen to a cassette they recorded of this album. It was the
first proper Tangerine Dream album I had ever heard. Of course I had heard
their soundtracks to many different movies but none of that stuck to me so
much.
This
album has stuck with me.
I
was told that the title track was a monster drum fest and I was informed
correctly.
Green
Desert blew strange ethereal sounds backed by pounding mad drums and psych rock
guitars that torched through my cheap stereo.
This
album only has four songs on it. The epic title track chews up side one. The
next track White Clouds is like a mini-redux of the title track. Astral Voyager
and Indian Summer are up next. These two tracks are ambient spacey trips to the
inner grid.
Many
ages ago I remember walking into a chain movie theater in Somerville sitting
down to wait for the movie to start and Astral Voyager was playing on the
speakers! It then went right into Indian Summer then the trailers started. Who
ever decided to play those before the movie, thank you! That movie theater no
longer exists.
Flash
forward to a few years ago, my musical partner in crime, DNA girl, and I are
discussing what our next album should be and it hits me to do our own bizarre
tribute to this album, thus we created the Astro Al Purple Mushroom cd which is
4 tracks of spaced out madness tipping our hat to Green Desert with our of
kilter science fiction trip out album.
All
TD fans have their go to album for the band, this one is mine even more so than
Zeit which I discussed in a prior blog.
Here
is Indian Summer. The beautiful closing track.
Yours in astral voyages,
Count Robot
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