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“Sometimes Edgar was, I would say, living in a parallel universe”

HOW were these live sets recorded? The sound quality is amazing.

PETER BAUMANN (synths, keyboards, flute): We recorded all those on a little four-track machine! Very often we’d listen back to them, but sometimes we’d think, “Ah, tonight wasn’t worth listening to.” But we still took it along to every concert.

Do you think Phaedra marked a big change in the group’s sound?

We felt it was a progression from Zeit and Atem. The times had changed, the equipment we got had changed, and Richard Branson came to Germany and said, “Hey, I

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