Tangerine Dream

Le Parc

- Studio, released May 1985 -

Covers

CD release Germany 1985
Design: Monika Froese

CD release Europe 1996
Design: Monika Froese

Tracks


		[a]	[b]
1.	Bois de Boulogne (Paris)	5:25	5:28
2.	Central Park (New York)	3:41	3:43
3.	Gaudi Park (Guell Garden Barcelona)	5:14	5:14
4.	Tiergarten (Berlin)	3:10	3:11
5.	Zen Garden (Ryoanji Temple Kyoto)	4:51	4:49
6.	Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk)	3:21	3:22
7.	Hyde Park (London)	4:00	4:00
8.	The Cliffs Of Sydney (Sydney)	5:45	5:45
9.	Yellowstone Park (Rocky Mountains)	6:12	6:17
10.	Streethawk (Radio Remix)	-	3:03
Total running time		41:39	44:52

Details


Recording date	January - February 1985
Recording engineer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Robert Kastler, Katja Brauneis, Clare Torry
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling

Notes

"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage. Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves but are like a heat haze."
- Buddha

The 1985 album Le Parc was the last official studio release with Johannes Schmoelling, who left Tangerine Dream in October 1985. In another way, too, Le Parc was a turning point in the musical history of Tangerine Dream: the much-beloved atmospheric or 'spacey' 20-minute long epics had gone in favour of nine quite short titles, the longest clocking in at barely over six minutes. Edgar Froese in an interview with Jonathan Miller: "Tangerine Dream is like breathing -- the first 12 or 13 years was breathing out and the other decade is breathing in. The simple concept is the inside and outside world. It's more complicated if you go into it, but breathing in means that by the natural aspect of breathing, it's inside and not spacey. It's not macrocosm, it's microcosm."

Edgar Froese has been quoted as saying, "I look at our compositions as travel music, adventure music, much of which has been inspired by the places we've visited over the years." And in fact, Le Parc was inspired by nine parks and gardens around the world. On this album the TD trio was supported by three guest musicians -- including Clare Torry, who also sang on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon back in 1973.

In April 2012 the album was re-released by Esoteric Records on their Reactive label as part of a re-issue of the TD back catalog of the Pink and Blue Years. The album was completely remastered and comes with a nice 16-page booklet including numerous photos plus an essay written by journalist Malcolm Dome. Like some other albums of this re-release series Le Parc comes with a bonus track, the single version of Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk) that is mixed completely different than the album version and had never been released on CD before.

Releases


Benelux	1985: Jive/CNR LP [a]: 656.070; blue labels; there exist labels with two different logos
Canada	1985: Jive/Quality LP [a]: JV 6624; blue labels 1985: Jive LP [a]: HIP 26; world map labels CD [a]: CHIP 26
Europe	1996: Essential/Castle CD [a]: ESMCD364 2003: Sanctuary/Castle CD [a]: CMRCD634; standard jewel case with additional cardboard wrapper 2012: Reactive/Esoteric CD [b]: EREACD 1027; standard jewel case with additional cardboard wrapper; multicoloured disc
France	1985: Jive/Carrere LP [a]: CA 68266.309; world map labels CD [a]: CA 80296.309
Germany	1985: Jive/Teldec Promo-LP [a]: 6.26135 AP; world map labels; DIN A4 sized booklet LP [a]: 6.26135 AP; world map labels; there exist two slightly different covers LP [a]: 6.26135 BC; world map labels; there exist two slightly different covers CD [a]: 8.26135 1989: Jive/Teldec CD [a]: 244 036-2 1991: Jive/BMG CD [a]: WD 75215; different booklet and back cover
Greece	1985: Jive LP [a]: 40009; blue labels
Italy	1985: Jive LP [a]: HIP 26
Japan	1985: CBS/Sony Promo-LP [a]: 28 AP 3070; red/yellow promo labels LP [a]: 28 AP 3070; red/yellow labels, paper spine wrapper CD [a]: 32 DP-263 1988: Alfa CD [a]: 32 XB-222
Mexico	1985: Jive/BMG LP [a]: LA 648; blue labels
Russia	199?: ? Counterfeit-CD: Z 1139; black/orange disc
Spain	1985: Jive/Sanni LP [a]: HIP 26; blue labels
UK	1985: Jive LP [a]: HIP 26; blue labels LP [a]: HIP 26; world map labels CD [a]: CHIP 26
USA	1985: Relativity Promo-LP [a]: 88561-8043-1; black labels, gsc LP [a]: 88561-8043-1; black labels CD [a]: 88561-8043-2 1996: Sequel/Castle CD [a]: 1045-2 2000: Castle CD [a]: CMACD578 2003: Sanctuary CD [a]: 06076-81258-2
Yugoslavia	1985: Jive/RTVL LP [a]: RTV LL 1319; yellow/green labels