Dreaming...

Playlist
Tangerine Dream – White Eagle
Tangerine Dream – 1970-1983 Triple CD Set (CD-R)
JS Bach – Partitas for Guitar and Viola
David Reilly – Anthology 1977-2007
Tangerine Dream – Startosfear
Tangerine Dream – Tangram
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea

The T Dream obsession continued today when I decided first thing to compile a 3CD set of full length tracks for Martin Lennon – after all, he was getting me into the gig tonight for free...

Breakfast with Anne around 9:30 and then a visit from sister Sheila...

Anne spent the afternoon at Tynecastle, watching Hearts go down 2-0 to Glasgow Celtic...

The JTs slipped to eighth place in the league...

Meanwhile I discovered TD would feature 3 albums in particular tonight and so gave them a listen...

To Anne’s mum’s at 4:30 and lovely home made curries for tea...

Left at 6:15 and drove to Lothian Road, meeting up with Martin and Dr Prog in the Shakespeare bar...

The good doctor was a little preoccupied with whether or not Lewis Hamilton would win the Formula One Title – Martin and I couldn’t have given two hoots...

The chat was predictable muso nonsense about various prog bands and their members and their exploits and DVDs and albums and tracks and whether ex-members ought to to be forced to release classic concert footage known to be in their possession...

We wandered along to the venue, the beautifully kitted out Picture House, and took our places in the throng of, let’s face it, old men...

Dr Prog preferred to be down amongst the “action” whilst Martin and I ascended to the balcony for a comfy pew...

The show lasted just short of three hours – in that time I recognised only two pieces...


Pic from Voiceprint

There was some cheese evident but, in the big scheme of things, little enough cheese to be forgiven...

In the main, the music (the first 90 minutes of which was a non-stop collage of sound accompanied by films and lasers) was driving sequencer based avant garde synthesiser music with added live drums (over pre-programmed stuff) plus some expert screaming electric guitar...

Three encores stretched the night as long as possible and it was past 11 pm when Phil (Dr Prog) and I bade farewell to Martin as he went off into the night to pen his review...

The doc and I climbed the stairs to the top of the venue for the after-show party where we met the band, the young manageress of the venue and the young promoteress of the gig...

The doc had managed to secure a setlist – almost all the titles were unknown to me – and he proceeded to ask each member to add their autograph to it...

We spent around an hour chatting away to all and sundry, with the Doctor trying his best to get the manageress to put on more prog gigs - the promotoress is shortly to bring the likes of Nektar, Amon Duul and Irmin Schmidt to London but it's unlikely they'll venture to Scotland...

All in all an excellent night and we listened to more Dream as we drove home in the Cloudland Blue mobile...

And so, from the sublime to the ridiculous with today’s Anthology track...

From the summer of 1979, when I lived and worked in, aptly enough, Germany – Munich to be precise...

Muenchen Musik II, which features Piano and Short Wave Radio, was recorded when I was lodging at a home run by priests and nuns, which happened to have a music room...

I spent one particularly rainy weekend recording some piano improvisations, of which this is one...

I also recorded found sounds on the Short Wave Band and, back home in Scotland, I combined the two...

Enjoy...

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ANTHOLOGY 1979
DDHR - MUNCHEN MUSIC II



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