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Alpha Centauri Import

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Disc: 1

  1. Sunrise in the Third System
  2. Fly and Collision of Comas Sola
  3. Alpha Centauri


Product Details

  • Vinyl (August 7, 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Esoteric
  • ASIN: B0085UDHD4
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,053 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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In a way, this album kinda gives off the impression of being on another planet. And supported by the vision of a science fiction writer about space, conceptualized by a visionary from perhaps the 1930's. The eerie effects of space ships and humming energy fields really gives off the effect of no longer being of this earth. You are mildly introduced to it by the less than five minute opening track called "Sunrise in the Third System", but you know you've really ascended into an out of body experience when you get deeply into the thirteen minute piece called "Fly and Collision of Coma Sola." For more than 30 years that I've had this album, I still never get tired of this piece. This is nothing near what you would call dance floor music. This is totally, anti-socially confined, inner-mind music.

The human brain is just like any other organ in the body. The entries of thoughts and sounds can entertain the brain, and is further enhanced by the stimulation of the heart. Music has an effective way of stimulating the mind and the soul. To truly embrace it, you will need to shut out all other intrusions of thought.

Like the other organs of the body, the brain can harden or soften, due to approval or disapproval of the entities that voluntarily or involuntarily penetrate the processing centre in the mind.

Consciousness is an option to participate in the real or imagined presence of existence. If you can master the ability to leave one world, by entering yet another, will you know the meaning of true peace. This is truly, the closest you are ever going to ever meet God.

Sometimes, entering the fictitious world of alternative existence can cause mildly vibrating pulsations in the mind. Do not be alarmed.
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When you start playing "Ultima Thule Part One", you might wonder if you're listening to Tangerine Dream. Froese lets his heavy metal guitar rip out power chords and Franke lays down a crashing heavy rock beat on a completely conventional drum set! You get some organ solos not unlike early Pink Floyd or Deep Purple and the background there is some echoed organ (or perhaps a Melotron) that could be heard in any Moody Blues song. This was Tangerine Dream before they were an electronic band and it's quite a hoot to hear. No surprise they left this one off the original release.

After the more familiar "Sunrise in the Third System" with Froese's creepy gilssando guitar and Schroeder's church organ, we hit the next bonus track, "Ultima Part Two". This is dated synthesizer and organ playing more standard T.D. music with thumping drums from Franke. It certainly doesn't rock out like Part One and is not unlike any of their other music from this era.

At first the title track borrows heavily from Pink Floyd with cymbals, organ and lots and lots of reverb to make the noises sound interesting. Eventually they fill the piece with many overdubs of confusing sounds. Like their next release Zeit, the noises arrive and depart without rhythm. Here they start out faster, louder and more aggressive although it does eventually sound similar to Zeit. If you found that record annoying, you might want to pass on this one. There are also flute solos which pointlessly attempt and fail to make the piece sound like real music. It ends with a "Spirit of Love" poem recited over church organ and a cacophony of choir boys singing. If Graeme Edge had been in Tangerine Dream instead of the Moody Blues, there would have been something like this on every Tangerine Dream record.
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This is at least the third CD edition of this album I have bought, and it is by far the best. Some rare bonus material, and as beautiful a reproduction of the cover art as can be had at this size, fronting a booklet that is more thorough and informative than any previous edition. In these days when everyone is downloading, this is a tribute to why it is still worthwhile to buy the physical object, when people take the time to make it something special. The only thing missing from the Tangerine Dream reissue catalog is Hight Definition editions direct from the analog masters. 44.1khz/16bit was a compromise based on early 1980's technology. We really need the classic Tangerine Dream catalog in at least 96k/24b.
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Tangerine Dream when they were still a guitar and drum band, before synthesizers and sequencers. Dark Krautrock ambient and Pink Floyd like sonic journeys. Unique in all the world.
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