By 1981 Tangerine Dream were pretty much in prescriptive mode. Strange for a band whose first decade were made up of totally improvised concerts, making each and every recording worth seeking out. Most of this CD is made up of tracks from Exit with early versions of compositions later to show up on White Eagle and Logos. With no variation whatsoever. What makes this concert interesting is that there is quite a bit of unreleased material here - at least from a studio perspective. Most of these can be found on Disc 1 with 'Thermal Inversion' being the sole rep on Disc 2. All of these tracks would have fit comfortably on Exit or White Eagle. And 'Bondy Paradise' is the one place where we do get some guitar improv from Froese, something he was to bring back (again) in the late 80s. So that's about 48 minutes of new music - well worth seeking out. The recording quality for this set is acceptable, better than the '78 and '83 shows.
Ownership: CD: 2004 Castle (UK). Part of The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2. More details can be found on the Nottingham entry.
10/20/22 (new entry)
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