Tangerine Dream Live

Encore

- Live, released October 1977 -

Covers

CD release Europe 1995 Photo: Monika Froese Layout: Edgar Froese	CD release UK 1984 Photo: Monika Froese
LP release Yugoslavia 1977 Photo: Monika Froese

Tracks


		[a]
1.	Cherokee Lane	16:19
2.	Monolight	19:54
3.	Coldwater Canyon	18:06
4.	Desert Dream	17:30
Total running time		71:49

Details


Recording date	March - April 1977
Recording engineer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes

In spring 1977 Tangerine Dream performed two sell-out tours in the USA. They were supported by the visual effects of a Krypton gas laser by Laserium. Tickets in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Washington and New York were all sold-out within days. In October 1977 Virgin released the double-album Encore that featured four long tracks recorded during the tour. Some of the music based on themes from Ricochet, Stratosfear and Sorcerer. The titles Coldwater Canyon (including Edgar Froese's longest guitar solo on record) and Cherokee Lane originate from the roads in Coldwater Canyon near Los Angeles, where TD lived for a while during the tour.

Encore is supposed to be the definitive live TD album among fans, and it was the last record featuring Peter Baumann, for after a concert in Denver, Colorado, during the second half of their tour, he informed Edgar Froese and Chris Franke that his private obligations no longer allowed him a full-time collaboration with TD. In November 1977 Peter Baumann left TD for good and started working as a solo artist and producer. He built his own studio in Berlin, before finally leaving that city and moving to New York.

Edgar Froese about the leaving of Peter Baumann: "I told Peter Baumann to leave the band. We were in a grave situation stylistically. We wanted to go on further, creating new things and buying more equipment -- learning a lot of new stuff. With his studio he couldn't even practise with us, because his studio was taking up all his time. [...] It was a little strange during the American tour when he said: 'Right, I have to go back to Berlin for a few days to see a guy who is doing the acoustics in the studio.' [...] But anyway, we didn't split on a fight. We just told him to leave and in the end I think he felt OK with us. He's gone to America now, and in the meantime he's sold his studio and is setting up a new one in New York. It's stupid and he's done it for nothing really. He gave up what I think was a creative band and is now sitting in a room somewhere, playing some sort of music. Still, if he feels OK then that's alright." (Interview with Neumusik, January 1980)

Being asked in 1985, if TD often used old pieces of music for films, TV or the theatre and gave them further exposure on an album, Edgar Froese answered: "No, although we counted around ten whole albums' worth of unused material from our last years with Virgin. When we were doing Encore in 1977 we used a piece of music that we'd made for the play Oedipus Tyrannus at the Chichester Festival under Keith Mitchell a couple of years before. Generally we wouldn't do that, but one of the reasons was the departure of Peter Baumann. The whole record was done when Peter decided to stay in the States so we looked back to what we had and used a couple of pieces from rehearsals we did, and the Oedipus pieces which came from CBS studios in London in '74 - '75."

Edgar Froese about the question, whether Coldwater Canyon was a genuine live piece: "Why do you think it wasn't? In fact we played that piece on a lot fewer dates than the others because it came from the second half of the tour. The first part went very well but the second half was knocked down after three concerts. We always said I broke my arm falling off a horse, which was b*******. I can hardly ride a horse." Chris Franke: "That's probably why you fell off it." Edgar Froese: "The real reason was that all the concert promoters went bankrupt because Emerson, Lake and Palmer had just cancelled their massive tour with a 120 piece orchestra. We were part of the disaster and we lost a lot of money on the tour. We had to grab together some bits and pieces -- on Cherokee Lane there were pieces from three of four concerts, so we got a lot of letters saying 'I've got the tape from the concert you played here and I can't find that part anywhere!'"

Backtracking with Tangerine Dream

Edgar Froese: "There's a piece on here, Monolight, which shows our classical leanings. We tend to listen to classical music, and feel very close to Bach because of the counterpoint, the use of sequences and the masterpieces he wrote in terms of basslines. Jack Bruce said Bach was the greatest bass-player ever, and I completely agree."

Chris Franke: "The comparison with classical music is difficult, but we do write long, instrumental pieces, very dynamic, partly aggressive, partly lyrical."

(Interview with Johnny Black, thisBEAT, issue 17, April 1986)

In 1995 Virgin re-released the album on CD in the so-called "Definitive Edition" series, featuring the original front cover artwork.

In 2009 the album was re-released in Japan with a cardboard sleeve featuring the exact replica of the original LP sleeve.

In 2012 the original album was re-released as part of the compilation box The Virgin Years 1977-1983.

Releases


Australia	1977: Virgin/Festival 2LP: L 45775/6; green labels, foc
Benelux	1977: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 25 524; green labels, foc 2LP: 25 524; red/green labels, foc
Canada	1977: Virgin/Polydor 2LP: VD 2506; multi-coloured labels, foc 2LP: VD 2506; red/green labels, foc 1994: Virgin/EMI CD: 839 443-2
Europe	1995: Virgin CD: 839 443-2; identical to UK version from 1995
France	1977: Virgin/Polydor 2LP: 2676 714; green labels with printing "Made in France", foc 2LP: 2676 714; green labels with printing "Fabrique en France", foc 1981: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 301 244; red/green labels, foc 1983: Virgin 2LP: 60 015; red/green labels, foc 1984: Virgin CD: CDV 2506; identical to UK version from 1984
Germany	1977: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 25 495; green labels, foc 2LP: 25 495; red/green labels, foc 1984: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 25 495; white/gray labels, foc CD: 610 374; identical to UK version from 1984 with the German order number on a sticker fixed on the jewel case 1993: Virgin CD: 786 538-2
Greece	1977: Virgin/Phonogram 2LP: 2676 714; green labels, foc
Italy	1977: Virgin/Dischi 2LP: AVIL 212506; multi-coloured labels, foc 2LP: AVIL 212506; red/green labels, foc
Japan	1978: Virgin/Victor Promo-2LP: VIP 9535/6; white promo labels, foc 2LP: VIP 9535/6; green labels, foc 1990: Virgin CD: VJCP-2525 Promo-CD: VJCP-2525; same as regular release, but with additional red promo sticker 2009: EMI CD: VJCP-68917; cardboard sleeve, obi Promo-CD: VJCP-68917; same as regular release, but with additional numbered sticker on rear
New Zealand	1977: Virgin/RTC 2LP: VD 2506; green labels, foc 2LP: VD 2506; red/green labels, foc
Spain	1978: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 25 495; green labels, foc 1983: Virgin/Ariola 2LP: 25 495; red/green labels, foc
Taiwan	19??: Woodstock & L.M. 2LP: RS-1010; brown picture labels, cover with different colours
UK	1977: Virgin 2LP: VD 2506; green labels, foc 2LP: VD 2506; red/green labels, foc 1984: Virgin CD: CDVD 2506 1995: Virgin CD: TAND 1
USA	1977: Virgin/CBS Promo-2LP: PZG 35014; multi-coloured promo labels, foc with gold/silver promo stamps 2LP: PZG 35014; multi-coloured labels, foc 8 track tape: GAP 35014 1994: Virgin CD: V21Y 39 443-2
Yugoslavia	1977: Virgin/RTB 2LP: 5733/4; green labels, foc with a different design without any US flag; with star saying 'SREBRNA' (i.e. 'silver') on cover photo 2LP: 5733/4; green labels, foc with a different design without any US flag; without star on cover photo
Encore was also released as part of the set (3).