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Tangerine Dream

Rockoon

- Studio, released 1992 -

Covers

CD release USA 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete	CD release UK 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete
CD release Netherlands 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete	CD release Netherlands 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete
CD release Germany 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete	CD release France 1992 Design: Aaron's Outfit Photo: Jim Rakete
CD release France 1994	CD counterfeit release Russia
CD release Germany 1999 Design: Edgar Froese	CD release Germany 2009
Download release Germany 2020 Artwork: Moonpop Design

Tracks


		[a]	[b]	[c]
1.	Big City Dwarves	6:07	6:07	6:01
2.	Red Roadster	8:14	8:14	8:09
3.	Touchwood	4:28	4:28	4:24
4.	Graffiti Street	4:49	4:49	4:45
5.	Funky Atlanta	4:08	4:08	-
6.	Spanish Love	5:41	5:41	-
7.	Lifted Veil	3:36	3:36	3:32
8.	Penguin Reference	4:48	4:48	4:44
9.	Body Corporate	3:48	3:48	-
10.	Rockoon	7:20	7:20	7:16
11.	Girls On Broadway	-	4:42	4:42
12.	Colorado Dawn	-	-	4:26
13.	Oriental Haze	-	-	3:54
14.	Oriental Haze (No Sax Version) [Alternate version]	-	-	4:55
15.	Big City Dwarves (Radio Edit) [Alternate version]	-	-	4:16
16.	Big City Dwarves (Very Early Session Demo) [Demo version]	-	-	6:01
17.	Red Roadster (No Sax Version) [Alternate version]	-	-	8:05
18.	Touchwood (Alternative Version) [Alternate version]	-	-	4:00
19.	Lifted Veil (No Sax Version) [Alternate version]	-	-	3:32
20.	Rockoon (Radio Edit) [1992 remix]	-	-	4:17
21.	Rockoon (No Guitar Version) [Alternate version]	-	-	7:17
Total running time		52:59	57:41	94:16

Details


Recording date	March 1991 - January 1992
Recording site(s)	The Cave (Berlin) & Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s)	Jeff Robinson, David Marino, Phillip Calvert
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Enrico Fernandez, Zlatko Perica, Richi Wester
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese

Notes

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Froese about the 1992 studio album Rockoon: "We started in March 1991 and finished the production, with some interruptions, of course, in January 1992, so Rockoon was the longest production ever in the history of the band. Of course you never achieve 100 percent of your own preconceptional ideas, but you have to have the longing for the hundred percent -- I guess that's very important. As far as Rockoon as a final product is concerned we are very glad and satisfied that we could move that far."

In the USA Rockoon was nominated for the Grammy as "Best New Age Album 1992", and it reached both the Top Ten in Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard Jazz charts.

Re-Releases

Besides the well-known 1992 and 1993 versions of Rockoon, there is another release which is widely unknown because only very few copies have been made. In 1994, Les Editions Atlas, a giant French company specialized in books, had decided to offer only to their mail order subscribers a batch of CDs in a limited edition series called "Les genies du Rock". Many artists were available, such as Velvet Underground, Eric Clapton, The Nice and some others -- including Tangerine Dream. The music material is identical to Rockoon which is also the subtitle of this CD, but the cover artwork is completely different; it shows a photograph of the line-up Chris Franke/Peter Baumann/Edgar Froese probably from 1975. Liner notes in French language explain the influence of bands like TD, Can and Kraftwerk onto the musical style of the '70s and also tell some musical roots and milestones of TD.

In 1999, Rockoon was re-released on TD's own record label TDI with a totally new cover artwork done by Edgar Froese.

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.

Rockoon - Edition J

In August 2020, Jerome Froese released a new version of this album, now titled Rockoon - Edition J as download only, thus no physical media of this release do exist so far. The digital cover artwork does not show any artist name, though the download was released under the moniker 'Jerome Froese & Tangerine Dream'. The 'Edition J' includes the albums listed below:

Rockoon (2020)
Tournado (2020)
Axiat 20 (2020)
Turn Of The Tides / Tyranny Of Beauty (2020)
Goblins Club / Oasis / Mars Polaris (2020)

This release includes all tracks of the original version that were composed by Jerome Froese, thus the three tracks originally composed by Edgar Froese are missing. On the other hand, this release does contain no less than 10 bonus tracks. Three of them had previously been released -- Colorado Dawn on Canyon Dreams (1991), Oriental Haze and the radio edit of Rockoon on Rockoon Special Edition (1993) -- while the remaining seven bonus tracks are previously unreleased alternate or demo versions of compositions from the original album. All tracks have been remastered in 2020 from the original DAT tapes.

Releases


France	1992: FNAC Music CD [b]: 662 040 1994: Editions Atlas CD [b]: RK CD 501
Germany	1992: Virgin Promo-LP [a]: 212 440; white/gray labels LP [a]: 212 440 CD [b]: 262 440 1993: Virgin CD [b]: 788 018-2; black/blue/white disc CD [b]: 788 018-2; blue/black/white disc 1999: TDI/EFA CD [b]: 63017-2 2009: Membran CD [b]: 232649; digipack 2020: Moonpop/Bandcamp Download [c]: moon bcdl 005; titled Rockoon - Edition J; complete album in several lossless or lossy digital formats
Netherlands	1992: Volt CD [b]: VR 5020; light blue cover CD [b]: VR 5020; darker blue cover
Russia	1998: - Counterfeit-CD [b]: TNDR 9802729; multicoloured disc 199?: - Counterfeit-CD [b]: S ESSCD 976; counterfeit of UK release from 1996; black/red/silver disc 200?: Spurk Counterfeit-CD [b]: ANT010027; counterfeit of German release from 1999; multicoloured disc 200?: - CD [b]: MPCD 2802; counterfeit of US release from 1992; pink/blue/black disc; additional print 'ST-500-113' on back insert
Taiwan	199?: Miramar/Himalaya CD [b]: MPCD 2802; identical to US version from 1992 with additional obi
UK	1992: Essential/Castle LP [b]: ESSLP976; white/red labels CD [b]: ESS CD 976 1996: TDI CD [b]: TDI004CD 1996: Essential/Castle CD [b]: ESMCD403
USA	1992: Miramar CD [b]: MPCD 2802 2000: Castle CD [b]: CMACD591
Rockoon was also released as part of the set The Grammy Nominated Albums.

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