Stratosfear

Stratosfear

1976 LP album cover
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released 1976
Recorded 1976
Genre Electronic music
Length 35:39
Label Virgin
Producer Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream chronology
Ricochet
(1975)		 Stratosfear
(1976)		 Sorcerer
(1977)
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Allmusic [1]

Stratosfear is an electronic music album released in 1976 by the German group Tangerine Dream.[2] It marks the beginning of the band's development away from their uncompromising early 1970s synthesizer experiments toward a recognizably more melodic sound, a trend they would pick up again in 1979's Force Majeure. The title track "Stratosfear" has been played live many times and has been released in a re-mixed form on a number of other albums.

Stratosfear combines Tangerine Dream's acoustic and electronic influences more tightly than before. For instance, at the end of the last track, "Invisible Limits", the deep piano/flute tune reveals the album's romantic flavour even after the earlier predominantly synthetic compositions (tracks #1 to last part of track #4).

The LP reached No.39 in the UK, in a 4-week chart run, and eventually reached silver status for selling an excess of 60,000 copies.[3]

Contents

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Stratosfear"   10:04
2. "The Big Sleep in Search of Hades"   4:45
3. "3 A.M. at the Border of the Marsh From Okefenokee"   8:10
4. "Invisible Limits"   11:40

[4]

Personnel

Singles

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Berling, Michael. "Stratosfear". Voices in the Net. http://www.voices-in-the-net.de/stratosfear.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-21. 
  3. ^ "Certified Awards". BPI. Archived from the original on 2008-04-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20080409172614/http://bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinum.html. Retrieved 2008-07-11. 
  4. ^ Stratosfear LP label OVED7, Virgin Records, 1976 
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