Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971)

Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri (1971)

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Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri

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Side A

1. "Sunrise in the Third System"   4:21

2. "Fly and Collision of Comas Sola"   13:23

Side B

1. "Alpha Centauri"   22:04

Reissue bonus tracks

4. "Oszillator Planet Concert" (Sanctuary/Castle (2002), Arcàngelo (2004), Reactive/Esoteric (2011))   8:03

5. "Ultima Thule, Part One (2000 remix)" (Arcàngelo (2004), Reactive/Esoteric (2011))   3:24

6. "Ultima Thule, Part Two" (Reactive/Esoteric (2011))   4:24

Tangerine Dream Band Members / Musicians

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

Alpha Centauri is the 2nd major release and second studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. It was released in March 1971 by record label Ohr.

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 other difference is that this album focuses on dark, spacey soundscapes as opposed to jam sessions. The shift in instrumentation resulted in an atmosphere dubbed by Edgar Froese himself as "kosmische musik". 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)".