JUST A DREAM?
When I saw the latest edition of Prog [148] during my weekly Tesco shop, I couldn’t believe my eyes! Was that really Tangerine Dream on the cover? Not only that, but a story about the making of Phaedra and some Edgar Froese postcards to boot. It landed in my shopping trolley quicker than you can say “krautrock”!
Chris Wheatley’s exposé on Phaedra cast a new light on one of my favourite albums and it was fascinating to read how much of its “otherworldly” sound was down to the Moog itself. As Steven Wilson says, it’s hard to believe that an album so strange and so truly progressive was so successful.
Those postcards have now been framed and Peter Baumann’s Virgin albums set has been pre-ordered – I had no idea they
