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Tangerine DreamTyranny Of Beauty- Studio, released February 1995 -
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CD release Europe 1995
Design: Tadream Vision | 
CD release UK 1996
Design: Tadream Vision | 
CD release Malaysia 1995 | 
CD release Germany 2009 | 
CD release Germany 1999
Design: Edgar Froese |
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Details | | | | | | Recording date | July - September 1994 | | Recording site(s) | Eastgate Studios (Vienna) | | Recording engineer(s) | Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Christian Gstettner | | Composer(s) | Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann, Jerome Froese, Georg F. Händel | | Musician(s) | Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Linda Spa, Gerald Gradwohl, Mark Hornby, Gisela Kloetzer | | Producer(s) | Edgar Froese |
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Notes | | | "Is my body something other than a swarming sea of living cells who revolve to a hereditary habit of millions of years, around one hidden essential point?"
- Gustav Meyrink |
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TD's 1995 studio album Tyranny Of Beauty follows the stylistic tradition of its predecessors. The track Stratosfear 1995 is a new recording of the 1976 composition basing on an idea of Jerome Froese. Largo (from Xerxes) is a classical adaption of Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759). |
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Asked for the real meaning behind the title Tyranny Of Beauty Edgar Froese answered: "It's a wonderful thing to look at a beautiful face, or to watch someone moving a very attractive body or to touch a very aesthetic piece of art -- it reminds people of some immortal perfection which all of us would like to preserve for eternity. But the very well known fact is, that nothing in this strange world can be saved forever. We feel weak against this everlasting law. So what's the problem? What makes us feel so sad after realising that we can't stop things moving from perfection to dissolution? The solution could be that we stop to lie about reality and face things as they are -- which simply means applauding beauty as one attractive part of life and respecting and honouring those things which are in the process of dissolving, knowing that they enjoyed good times, watching and living among them. That includes not only humans -- it includes all parts of nature. A wise guy once said: 'A lie would have no sense unless the truth were dangerous.'" |
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 The UK releases of Tyranny Of Beauty included the bonus track Quasar that was previously available only on the promotional Tyranny Of Beauty CD-5 and the Italian Tyranny Of Beauty CD-I.
A Malaysian release with different artwork contained this bonus track as well.
The 1999 re-release by TDI, now featuring a completely different cover artwork, includes this bonus track, too, though it was not mentioned in the track listing of the first pressing. The track listing was then corrected with the second pressing (click on image on the left to see a larger scan of the back insert of both pressings).
In March 2009 the album was re-released with different cover design as part of an extensive digipack series (consisting of a total of more than 60 CD and DVD releases) by the Germany based Membran record label; though not featured in the track listing on the digipack back side, this release does include Quasar as well. |
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Releases | | | | | | Europe | - 1995: Virgin
- CD [a]: 840 275-2
| | Germany | - 1999: TDI/EFA
- CD [b]: 63020-2; incomplete track listing
- CD [b]: 63020-2; corrected track listing
- 2009: Membran
- CD [b]: 232652; digipack
| | Italy | - 1995: Les Folies Art
- CD [a]: LFAD 1235
| | Malaysia | - 1995: Divine/FORM
- CD [b]: FR CD 20058
| | Saudi Arabia | - 1995: Megastar/Sidi
- CD [a]: STARCD1 190530
| | UK | - 1995: AMP
- CD [b]: AMP-CD 027
- 1996: TDI
- CD [b]: TDI002CD
| | USA | - 1995: Miramar
- CD [a]: 23046-2
| Tyranny Of Beauty was also released as part of the set The Grammy Nominated Albums.
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The UK releases of Tyranny Of Beauty included the bonus track Quasar that was previously available only on the promotional Tyranny Of Beauty CD-5 and the Italian Tyranny Of Beauty CD-I.
