TANGERINE DREAM - SESSIONS IV

THE SESSIONS IV release contains instant live compositions (about 80 min of music)

from the current TD line-up Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane recorded at Internet Festival Pisa, Øya Festival Oslo and Way Out West Festival Gothenburg (2018).  

2025 marks the 10th anniversary of Tangerine Dream bandleader Edgar Froese’s passing. Thorsten Quaeschning has been the bandleader since 2015, and in 2025 he celebrates his 20th Anniversary of joining Tangerine Dream.

In their imperial years of the 1970s, Tangerine Dream’s live concerts were an electronic exploration, improvised and different every night, with little or no relationship to their smash hit albums, which were similarly esoteric. As the 1980s dawned, their recorded work contained more recognisable themes and they scored some of the biggest films of the decade (Risky Business, Firestarter, Near Dark, Thief, Sorcerer).

Now, they are returning in part to those pioneering days, and every show includes a section of improvisation, different every night. The best improvisations are being released as Sessions, and Invisible Hands Music is proud to release them out on deluxe double vinyl mastered at Abbey Road by Miles Showell and is pressed in translucent green vinyl.

TRACKLISTING

Record 1:

Side 1

Four Degrees Parallax (part one)

22m 30s

11.27pm Session, 13th October 2018

Recorded live at Internet Festival, Teatro Verdi, Via Palestro, Pisa, Italy

Side 2

Four Degrees Parallax (part two)

13m 59s

11.27pm Session, 13th October 2018

Recorded live at Internet Festival, Teatro Verdi, Via Palestro, Pisa, Italy

Record 2:

Side 3

Persepsjontransformasjon

26m 50s

10:32pm Session, 10th August 2018

Recorded live at Øya Festival, Tøyenparken, Oslo, Norway

Side 4

Gothenburg 2018

15m 3s

4.45pm Session, 11^th August 2018

Recorded live at Way Out West Festival, Slottsskogen, Gothenburg, Sweden