Historically, reside albums are hit-and-miss affairs. A number of (Skinny Lizzy’s Reside And Harmful and The Who’s Reside At Leeds) are little in need of transcendent, however many are water-treading, contract-fulfilling affairs, typically designed to appease hardcore followers whereas their favourite artists determine their subsequent transfer within the studio. For followers of digital music behemoths Tangerine Dream, nevertheless, the band’s in-concert albums typically proved as important as their studio LPs, not least as a result of the group’s reside repertoire normally included beforehand unrecorded materials labored up particularly for the stage. And none had been extra important than 1982’s Logos Reside, recorded on November 6, 1982.
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Throughout Edgar Froese and Co.’s decade-long tenure with Richard Branson’s Virgin imprint, the label sanctioned 4 official TD reside LPs. Each 1975’s Ricochet and ’77’s Encore mirrored the reside prowess of TD’s “classic” line-up that includes Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann, whereas Quichotte (later reissued by Virgin as Pergamon) compiled the perfect of the group’s historic – and extremely emotional – live performance at East Berlin’s Palast Der Republik in January 1980.
Quichotte marked the debut of one other extremely impressed TD line-up, with mainstays Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke having lately recruited the classically educated Johannes Schmoelling. An underrated determine within the TD story, the versatile Schmoelling additionally possessed a level in sound engineering, and his love of accessible, structured compositions (in impact, the pop sensibility TD had beforehand lacked) guided the band away from the prolonged, improvisatory items which had been their forte throughout the 70s.
With Schmoelling on board, TD launched a clutch of critically acclaimed LPs throughout the early 80s, together with Exit and White Eagle. They toured closely in help of the latter, and their fourth – and last – Virgin-sponsored reside LP, Logos Reside, was culled from the band’s enthusiastically obtained present at London’s Dominion Theatre on November 6, 1982: one in all over 30 European gigs carried out throughout the White Eagle tour throughout the fall of ’82.
Tangerine Dream often indulged in marathon, two-hour units throughout this jaunt, and their repertoire featured highlights from each Exit and White Eagle, together with “Mojave Plan,” “Midnight In Tula” and “Choronzon.” The user-friendly 50 minutes of music edited down for Logos Reside, nevertheless, was drawn completely from the beforehand unreleased materials TD had been then performing onstage.
To the uninitiated, the tracklisting threw a curveball, for the majority of the LP apparently consisted of simply two prolonged, 20-minute tracks. In actuality, nevertheless, each of those (“Logos Part 1” and “Logos Part 2,” respectively) had been made up of shorter, snappier particular person items, the longest of which – the chameleonic “Logos Red” – clocked it at a nonetheless comparatively financial eight minutes.
The general program ran collectively seamlessly too, with the trio dexterously transitioning between stirring, melodic fare (“Logos Blue,” the courtly “Logos Velvet”) and the eerie deep area of the Zeit-esque “Logos Black,” earlier than thunderous applause introduced them again for a curtain name and a assured model of the lately penned however hardly ever carried out “Dominion.”
