Alpha Centauri (album)
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Alpha Centauri is the second studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. It was released in March 1971 by record label Ohr.
Content
The music on this album is quite different from Tangerine Dream's first album Electronic Meditation, partly because of a heavier reliance on keyboards and electronic technology, although they still mostly remain in the background: the dominant instruments on the album are organ and flute. The shift in instrumentation resulted in an atmosphere dubbed by Edgar Froese himself as "Script error: No such module "Lang".".Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Julian Cope's Head Heritage wrote that the album "used the space rock template from [Pink Floyd's] Saucerful of Secrets (and removed the rock)".[1]
A nowadays extremely rare single "Ultima Thule" was released in February of the same year. Side 1 employs the same guitar riff as "Fly and Collision of Comas Sola", but the single was at the time otherwise an unconnected release. Re-releases of Alpha Centauri in the 2000s have however included either or both parts of Ultima Thule as bonus tracks.
Release
Alpha Centauri was released in March 1971 by record label Ohr. It sold 20,000 copies in their native Germany, nearly four times as many as their later classic Phaedra.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Track listing
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Personnel
- Edgar Froese – guitar, organ, bass, composer
- Christopher Franke – drums, percussion, flute, zither, piano, VCS3
- Steve Schroyder – organ, voice, echo machines, iron stick
- Udo Dennebourg – flute, voice
- Roland Paulick – synthesizer
References
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External links
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