Tangerine Tree Volume 26: Brussels 1980 Tangerine Dream

s) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling

Notes
The Europe/US tour of autumn 1980 was Johannes Schmoelling's first extensive concert tour with Tangerine Dream. Starting in Kiel, Germany on October 11th and ending in Santa Monica, USA on November 22nd 1980, it covered 28 performances of which 17 exist as fan tape recordings.

For the first time in Tangerine Dream's career, the music played within a concert tour was no longer entirely improvised. There was little room for variation, except for keyboard and piano solos that were performed differently now and then. The eighties had finally arrived, and the very productive Froese/Franke/Schmoelling line-up presented a live set with state-of-the-art sequencer music which even twenty years later still sounds fresh and innovative. Although very reminiscent of Thief, large parts of the music that were played during this tour are still unreleased, but Tangerine Tree Volume 26: Brussels 1980 with its mostly excellent sound quality surely is able to fill the gap.

As with all releases of the Tangerine Tree project, this release is made by fans for fans. It must not be sold but is to be traded freely.