#thorsten quaeschning

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Monthly Mix: January 2024

Autokino Session 8 by Thorsten Quaeschning

Don't Close Your Eyes by Parkway Drive

Rise by Sin by Beware of Safety

Circa by Beware of Safety

Yards and Yards by Beware of Safety

Trigger Finger by Beware of Safety

We've Got a Lot by Sarah Neufield

Chase the Bright and Burning by Sarah Neufield

Linger by The Cranberries

Pocket Calculator by Kraftwerk

Meridian by Beware of Safety

Monsoon Malabar [International Observer Remix] by Bombay Dub Orchestra

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Tangerine Dream concert poster, seventies

Founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in West-Berlin, Tangerine Dream was formative in the genre of electronic music. After Edgar Froese’s death in 2015, the band consists of Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick.

[caroline-63-world]

Check out Main Theme by Thorsten Quaeschning & Ulrich Schnauss on Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B071W2NQJ5?trackAsin=B07176YC8J&do=play&ts=1727314949&ref=dm_sh_Pau0ywBGvNAhJpOD0vSkzcPuM

[studentofetherium]

How common are bands with no original members and how tdoes that tend to be recieved by fans?

not especially. it's the nature of things to end, and in most cases a band will break up before there are no members left. often, for older bands, what happens is that one member becomes a central figure like Froese for Tangerine Dream or Frippe for King Crimson. thus, when that central member dies or retires, there's two options. for Tangerine Dream, Froese picked Thorsten Quaeschning to take over as leader of the band. in the case of King Crimson, the band finally broke up before it reached this stage

if not that, then bands can have rolling membership. Yes has replaced so many members that they need a dedicated wikipedia page, and a lot of it is people coming and going after a few years. the oldest member of the band has been a part of it since 1970, but otherwise, everyone is fairly recent, as the last original member of the band died in 2015

as for how it tends to be received by fans.. i haven't listened to much of Tangerine Dream's new material, but it seems like people are generally okay with it. for Yes... about 20 years ago they lost their original singer and it hasn't been the same since for fans. they continue as a legacy act and are probably never going to die, but they're not Good. it generally leans more towards the latter, since it's so distant from what fans originally liked, but it's not exactly a common thing so it's not like there's a set template for when it happens

[sonyclasica]

SCHILLER

ILLUMINATE

El impulso creativo de Christopher von Deylen no cesa: Un doble álbum con 28 nuevos temas y conciertos con un concepto de luz envolvente. Ya disponible.

Consíguelo AQUÍ

Lo que comenzó en 1998 con el éxito de discoteca "Das Glockenspiel" ha evolucionado a lo largo de un cuarto de siglo hasta convertirse en un cosmos sonoro polifacético.

Sus 10 álbumes Top Ten (8 de ellos N.º 1), los numerosos premios de oro y platino que ha recibido y las giras mundiales no son motivo para que Christopher von Deylen, alias SCHILLER, se quede de brazos cruzados. Su mirada está siempre atenta a lo nuevo.

Ya se trate de colaboraciones con leyendas del pop internacional como el fundador de Genesis, Mike Rutherford, la estrella de la música clásica Lang Lang, el rapero alemán Thomas D o la actriz Anna Maria Mühe: las fronteras musicales no existen para el visionario del sonido y compositor Christopher von Deylen. Sus sonidos esféricos --igualmente ilimitados-- recorren el planeta, que él explora como un viajero lleno de curiosidad.

El arte conecta: Colaboración con artistas iraníes y ucranianos   A Christopher von Deylen le conmovieron especialmente varios conciertos en Irán, donde fue el primer artista occidental en 40 años que actuó ante miles de fans iraníes.

Christopher von Deylen intensifica esta conexión en su nuevo álbum 

Junto con la artista iraní-kurda Yalda Abbasi, creó el himno "Amor y Lágrimas". Se basa en una melodía folclórica persa y combina sonidos dotar, voces tradicionales y el sonido característico a gran escala de SCHILLER.

SCHILLER también ha dado conciertos en Ucrania en el pasado, donde siempre ha actuado junto a músicos locales. Christopher von Deylen: "Para mí es importante, incluso en estos tiempos turbulentos, mantener vivo el intercambio creativo más allá de las fronteras nacionales". Así, se crearon dos emotivos vídeos musicales para las canciones "Empire of Light" y "Quiet Love" en colaboración con un colectivo de artistas ucranianos. Los clips, rodados en Kiev, muestran que incluso en días difíciles, el arte es una forma de dar apoyo y esperanza.

El nuevo álbum doble "Illuminate": El sonido sintetizado de los 80 se une al Dolby Atmos  

Los 28 temas del nuevo álbum doble "Illuminate" demuestran lo cálida, diversa y emotiva que puede ser la música electrónica. Una banda sonora para los sentidos, que desarrolla consecuentemente el ADN musical de SCHILLER y lleva al oyente a mundos sonoros suspendidos durante dos horas. El escapismo en su forma más bella.

Christopher von Deylen consigue combinar tradición y modernidad: su pasión por los sintetizadores analógicos, los mezcladores y las máquinas de reverberación de los años 80 despliegan su alcance cinematográfico en el sonido Dolby Atmos de hoy.

El arco musical va desde canciones pegadizas como "Space", con la artista nacida en Liverpool Tricia McTeague, hasta la minimalista y palpitante canción que da título al disco "Illuminate" y la épica de veinte minutos "Midsommar". Esta última fue creada junto con Thorsten Quaeschning, responsable musical de los pioneros electrónicos berlineses Tangerine Dream.

Para hacer tangible la música en el mejor sentido de la palabra, Christopher von Deylen ha vuelto a crear una serie de grabaciones físicas: un doble vinilo en estuche, de edición limitada, con un elaborado diseño con impresión artística firmada a mano y un libro de tapa dura de 40 páginas. En el Blu-Ray que lo acompaña hay, entre muchos extras, el álbum completo en sonido Dolby Atmos y una grabación del concierto de la gira "Metrópolis" de SCHILLER por las discos más importantes de Europa.   TRACKLIST 01 – OCTAGON I 01 – Willkommen 02 – Empire of Light 03 – Illuminate 03 – OCTAGON III 04 – Meer der Stille 04 – OCTAGON IV 05 – Exotica 05 – OCTAGON V 06 – OCTAGON VI 06 – Reisrfieber 07 – Arc Celeste 08 – Der Himmel ueber der Wueste 09 – Space 10 – La Luna 11 – Ein Morgen Im August 12 – Love And Tears 13 – Die innere Stimme 14 – Midsommar 15 – Stardust 16 – What Have We Got 17 – Die Schwarze Orchidee 18 – Lykke 19 – Serenity 20 – Quiet Love 21 – Let´s Watch The Stars 22 – Oceans Way 23 – El Color De La Luz 24 – Endlos I 25 – Endlos II 26 – Endlos III 27 – Paradigm of Peace 28 – Illuminate (Reprise)

[bitsmag]

Tangerine Dream no SXSW

Precursores da música eletrônica se apresentam em Austin Talvez você conheça o Tangerine Dream mas não sabe. Uma das cenas mais memoráveis da carreira de Tom Cruise, do filme Negócio Arriscado, tem uma sequência de 8 minutos de Tangerine Dream. A trilha sonora inteira do filme é do grupo, mas essa cena, como tem essa duração toda sem diálogos, é a mais impactante. É "aquela" cena mesmo, a do trem, onde o casal protagoniza momentos bem picantes. Essa cena é histórica! Mas o Tangerine Dream é, na verdade, um dos pioneiros da música eletrônica. Antes de Kraftwerk havia o Tangerine Dream, grupo formado em 1967, em Berlim. O album Phaedra, de 1974, é um divisor de águas e foi um grande sucesso comercial.  A banda, colecionando mais de 53 anos de estrada, vai fazer um show que promete ser um dos pontos altos do SXSW deste ano. O mais novo album do Tangerine Dream, que já não tem mais seu fundador, Edgar Froese, morto em 2015, chama-se Raum e foi lançado há um ano. A repercussão é ótima, um sucesso de crítica.  A formação atual do Tangerine Dream é Thorsten Quaeschning (desde 2005) como diretor musical, Hoshiko Yamane (desde 2011), Ulrich Schnauss (desde 2014) e Paul Frick (desde junho de 2020). Eles se apresentam na sexta, 17 de março, no Parish.  https://youtu.be/7vpChxxgB9Y Read the full article

[jondawson]

Podcast: Thorsten Quaeschning of Tangerine Dream

Podcast: Thorsten Quaeschning of Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream: Thorsten Quaeschning (left), Hoshiko Yamane and Paul Frick. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AozCF8l4pvUEtdNBKpiOn?si=04b85351663f4cac Third of Never’s Jon Dawson talks to Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning: The discussion covers the legendary electronic band’s new album Raum, upcoming live albums and films, Thorsten’s stellar solo album AMA and his favorite Tangerine Dream…

[complexdistractions]

Tangerine Dream : Raum

Tangerine Dream has evolved into something far more than just a band. From their beginnings in the late 60s as a German experimental electronic band to their meditative album side excursions in the 70s to the go-to soundtrack creators of the 80s, Tangerine Dream has seen evolution after evolution of sound, style, and mood. The one constant in Tangerine Dream’s long musical history had been its…

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Album Review: Cargo (Original Soundtrack)

Not to be confused with Netflix's recent zombie drama of the same name, Cargo is a contained thriller that takes place in one location - a cargo container - and features only one actor - Ron Thompson (American Pop) - along with several voices. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker James Dylan, the independent film will be released on VOD on August 14 via Wild Eye Releasing, with a DVD to follow later in the year.

As if the film's concept weren't intriguing enough, Dylan has adopted an ambitious marketing approach. He's building anticipation for Cargo by releasing its original motion picture soundtrack, in addition to a novelization written by J.C. Macek III, in advanced of the film. Dylan enlisted Thorsten Quaeschning, frontman of German electronic legends Tangerine Dream, to compose the score.

Tangerine Dream previously scored such films as Sorcerer, Risky Business, Firestarter, and Legend. Although Quaeschning wasn't a part of the group during those recordings (he joined in 2005), founder Edgar Froese handpicked him as his replacement upon his death in 2015. Quaeschning carries the legacy well, with the prolific group continuing to release quality material at an impressive rate.

Because Cargo is restricted to a single location and actor, its score is particularly important. I've not seen the movie yet, rendering it impossible to judge how successfully the music fits the tone of the film, but if the score is any indication, viewers are in for a treat. The soundtrack successfully piqued my interest in seeing the visuals that inspired Quaeschning to compose such enchanting music.

The Cargo soundtrack follows in the footsteps of Tangerine Dream, as Quaeschning harnesses his trusty synthesizer to immerse the listener in an atmospheric soundscape. The multi-talented musician also plays the piano, glockenspiel, drums, guitars, and electronics on the album, with help from Julia Hecht on cello, Anne Uerlichs on Viola, and Hoshiko Yamane (also of Tangerine Dream) on violin.

No stranger to telling stories with his music, Quaeschning's score evokes the unsettling feeling of claustrophobia and isolation echoed in the film's plot. Like many of Tangerine Dream's soundtracks, Cargo plays like a cohesive album rather than a mere collection of cues. The music builds an enigmatic tension between its dissonant and pulsating electronics, while the tracks often blend into one another, furthering the mesmerizing listening experience.

The Cargo soundtrack is available on vinyl, CD, and digital. I always champion vinyl, particularly when it comes to soundtracks; Cargo's original motion picture soundtrack sounds bold and textured on black vinyl. However, the tracklisting was pared down to twelve cuts in order to fit on an LP, with the CD release offering four additional tracks and the digital version containing all twenty pieces of music composed for the film. Regardless of the format you choose, Quaeschning's compositions are captivating.

Cargo is available on vinyl, CD, and digital via Invisible Hands Music.

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It is Time to Leave When Everyone is Dancing by Tangerine Dream from the album Quantum Gate

[mitjalovse]

Burial's current last EP got me questioning the contemporary state of many electronic musicians. One of the main reasons I ask myself over this is my view that this sort of music can quickly end up dated, which is why I am, for instance, surprised over Quantum Gate by Tangerine Dream. Mind you, they don't reinvent themselves here, they still sound like the band we know with the modern production values, yet you do notice a sense of purpose on this disc. I agree, Froese's death may have given them a certain direction they can carry on, though the latter might also cause to worry about their consequent possibilities. Can they continue with the moniker or is this something completely different than the usual modus operandi of Tangerine Dream?

[slothmansounds]

Monthly Mix: December 2022

Catfight by Strawberry Girls 

Stars by Strawberry Girls feat. Eric Tuffendsam

A Heartbeat Away by Jean-Michel Blais

Autokino Session (Part 6) by Thorsten Quaeschning

Overture by Mazoulew

Ki Lo Mazoulew

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THORSTEN QUAESCHNING behind closed doors with​​.​​​.​​​.​​ KRISTOF HAHN released October 8, 2020 music: Thorsten Quaeschning, Kristof Hahn Thorsten Quaeschning Synthesizer, Piano, Electric Guitar, E-Kalimba, Soundbox, Sequencer Kristof Hahn Lap-Steel-Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals Artwork: Adrian Bang Mixed by Thorsten Quaeschning at TownendStudio / Berlin (c) all rights reserved Behind closed doors 8th October 2020 01:01:38 about THORSTEN QUAESCHNING behind closed doors with... - Season 2 The idea to BEHIND CLOSED DOORS was born in the first week of lockdown in Berlin. The world stops turning. Every concert is cancelled, musicians have to interrupt their tours. Berlin concert halls remain empty. Film producers are affected as well. Every production is on hold. Should we wait till everything is back to normal? Two weeks and fifty phone calls later the first edition of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is ready. Everybody lends a helping hand, nobody asks for money. A private sponsor pays for electricity and crew in the UFA Fabrik Berlin, whose board spontaneously gives us a go for recording – not on the stage, but in front of it. The place where you usually find the audience standing and cheering. The musicians are more than happy to be able to play again and also give their best. A small film production team, a director and a cameraman, records the event with five cameras and cuts the show live. Two times a week – every Monday and Thursday evening – the first twelve sessions are being streamed for free on up to ten channels worldwide. They range from 40 to 65 minutes. Some of them reach up to 25.000 views. Almost everyone who starts a session watches till the end, close to nobody leaves the session early. Hundreds, even thousands of fans connect in the chatroom and celebrate the music in the comment section. The musicians actively participate in the live-chat every time. It might not be the entirely the same but the atmosphere and overall feeling is almost like experiencing real live concerts. Thorsten Quaeschning (Tangerine Dream, Picture Palace music) and his music define the style of the sessions in the UFA Fabrik and also of the second edition of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS produced in the LIDO in Berlin, Kreuzberg. His real-time-composing / improvisation skills give the guest musicians a great space to show their art and talent. Bringing such different musicians and music genres together creates magical moments in every session.

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Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss - Synthwaves https://open.spotify.com/track/4OZTxWtyE22ahcY6qTDc4N

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Quaeschning & Schnauss - Thirst

TRACK 6 FROM THE NEW CD VERSION OF 'SYNTHWAVES'.

Pure Berlin-school bliss from synthmeisters Thorsten Quaeschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Synthwaves pays homage to the masters of the past, yet feels fresh and enchanting. Crisp, interlocking patterns are modulated and mutated with mathematical precision into eight pieces of pristine, post-kosmische sounds to float away to. During two intense weeks in Berlin, Quaeschning and Schnauss – both students of the great, late maestro Edgar Froese – locked themselves in a studio full of vintage synthesizers, analog sequencers and drum machines, and the result is a gorgeous set of purely electronic music. As the title suggests, a bit of tongue-in-cheek playfullness was allowed during the process – however, all of these pieces sparkle with real emotion and warmth. As with the finest Tangerine Dream soundtracks it's the kind of music that paints vivid pictures on the canvas of the listeners mind: synth plucks hang in the air like glaring neon in metropolitan dusk, and zero-gravity pads hover like ghostly morning mist travelling over empty coastlines. Poly-rhythmic patterns are allowed to build - slowly but steadily - bar after bar, until synth-Satori is reached. By the time the last track on this album runs out, it's obvious these two producers have themselves become masters of their craft.

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SIDE NOTES: Tangerine Dream

When I first got into the rave scene in Missoula, Montana, I was entirely enthralled by the psychedelic electronic music drawn to my small, liberal hometown. Acts like Shpongle hosted masquerades at local theaters and hippies flocked to the hot springs for more psych-raves with glow paint and dreadlocks as far as the eye could see. My dad, less enthusiastic about my discovery, told me one day, “You wanna hear REAL pyschadelic electronica? Go look up Tangerine Dream.” He explained that these visionaries were the true roots of ambient and experimental electronic music. More than that, Edgar Froese (the founder) could envision things, artistically, that were entirely unique—music that utilized tools of a new era (the sequencer and mellotron) to create masterpieces unlike anything else. Embedded in the underground music scene of West Berlin in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Froese drew inspiration from classical music to traditional rock, adding recordings of his industrialized environment that he captured on a small tape recorder, almost as if to paint the very sound of life itself. He confidently sailed into uncharted waters, organizing these space-age symphonic collaborations under the name Tangerine Dream.

In the genre of krautrock, names like Kraftwerk, Can, and Faust tend to ring a bell, putting faces to an avant-garde mish-mash that developed in Germany in the late 1960s. Tangerine Dream paved the way for these other artists, and though the artists prefer to steer from traditional labels and boundaries in distaste, many regard Froese as the super father of the movement. The progressive rock sub-genre has been “described as an anarchic, intense, acid, tellurian, nocturnal, spacey, dark and oniric ‘adventure’ through rock music,” the string of adjectives manifesting the wide breadth of sounds beneath the umbrella. With over 100 albums, the vastness of Tangerine Dream’s discography is hard to describe, but AllMusic says that their sound ranged “from the most atmospheric new age and space music to the harshest abrasions of electronic dance.” Various lineups under Froese’s direction produced film soundtracks (Risky Business, Flashpoint, Legend) to soundtracks for video games (GTA V).

With Froese’s 2015 death due to an unexpected pulmonary embolism, many worried that the flame would flicker and die. Jerome Froese, Edgar’s son and ex-band member, posted on Facebook, saying, “Tangerine Dream was my Dad and my Dad is dead and so is Tangerine Dream.” After all, he was the one member who had been there through it all - the person who truly dreamed in tangerine. The band released a post-mortem statement, however, indicating their desire to carry out Froese’s vision through his previous instructions, sketches, and work with band members from previous incarnations. Now, the current lineup of Thorsten Quaeschning (synths and more), Hoshiko Yamane (violin), and Ulrich Schnauss (synths) is performing concerts all over the world in loving memory of Froese’s “change in cosmic address,” which is how Froese thought about death. I was fortunate enough to secure a place on the limited guest list for the memorial event hosted by his late wife, artist and musician Bianca Froese-Acquaye, in Berlin.

The mixed-media exhibition included fundraising for a memorial “SoundART” museum that is being built to ensure that Froese’s achievements are remembered through interactive displays of TD’s influences on music and art. Tangaudimax has not yet opened, but more information on the efforts of Acquaye and the Eastgate Music Team can be found here. The event was intimate and instead of a simple speech accompanied by a set from the current lineup, the event truly characterized Froese’s movement, giving me a better understanding of his involvement in the Berlin music scene. Of course, the hour-long set by the current lineup was beautiful — a cosmic soundscape paired with a video display of tessellating geometry, wavy galaxies, and kaleidoscopic nature. The pure power of the synth, melding with industrial beats and echoing violin, had the room of 200 fans swaying in awe. If you are reading this and have never heard Tangerine Dream, their currently lineup made this wicked cover of the Stranger Things theme song. The best part of the cover is that the show features TD music and the composers behind it took inspiration from TD’s discography of soundtracks. I stood, jealous of the majority who were most likely friends of Froese – fans who had seen the group in their zenith – but this jealousy was suppressed by the powerful feeling of togetherness created through appreciation for art.

The director of a Tangerine Dream documentary spoke, tickets were drawn to see who would take home the surrealist prints of Froese’s digital graphic work, and I sat taking everything and everyone in. The slew of art opened my eyes to a few key things readers should understand about the group. Instead of being a talented musician plucked by a record label to pump out pop hits, TD and Froese are embodied by an entire community and movement. Froese was an art appreciator whose inspiration not only came from other music, but from other forms of art. Inspired by Dadaism and Surrealism, an avid reader, he even organized an event at the house of Salvador Dali. The reading of Edgar’s Hendrix story fit swimmingly into the flow of the evening, giving voice to the deceased genius, as someone who knew people and who others looked to for direction in darkness. He was a man with such creative drive that he didn’t just follow in footsteps, but blazed new trails, shining light and color into a grey future.

By surrounding himself with likeminded artists and collaborating with many, Froese started to move mountains. His connections and community embody the current that started the wave of krautrock in Germany, and eventually the world. Experiencing people come together where it all started and hearing loved ones speak shed light on the pure power that this one man had and shared with those around him. As mentioned, Froese’s musing on death being a change in cosmic address made all the more sense by the end of the night because though he wasn’t in the neighborhood, his energy still electrified onlookers via the passion of his messengers. Such vibrant cosmic energy makes me wonder if it’s possible for a soul so innovative to rest in peace. Instead, I wish for Edgar Froese to transcend in peace, inspiring onlookers in showers of Tangerine Dreams.

-Erin Jones