Edgar Froese obit

Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese dies at 70

 

He was not n the list.

Edgar Froese, the founding member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream, has died in Vienna, aged 70.

Froese died unexpectedly on Friday after a pulmonary embolism, his son, Jerome, said.

Tangerine Dream's psychedelic and trance-like use of synthesiser sound was a significant influence on the development of electronic music.

Froese once said that "there is no death, there is just a change of our cosmic address".

Froese was born on D-Day - 6 June, 1944 - in Tilsit in East Prussia, now the Russian city of Sovetsk.

Froese's father and other relatives were killed by the Nazis and the family lost all their belongings in the war.

His mother and the rest of his family settled in West Berlin, where he studied art.

Froese formed Tangerine Dream in Berlin in September 1967 with fellow students.

The band was known for its uncompromising anti-pop performances and played at the villa of surrealist artist Salvador Dali in Spain.

The group later signed to Virgin after Froese had undertaken "several bouts of chess on Richard Branson's houseboat on the Thames".

The resultant album, Phaedra, in 1974 was considered a key work in the early electronic genre, with its sequencer-driven sound.

The album reached No 15 in the UK charts although it sold only a few thousand copies in Germany.

Froese was a prolific artist, and from 2003 onwards created solo work under the name Edgar W Froese.

Solo discography

Studio albums

Year     Album name    Label

1974    Aqua   Virgin/Brain

1975    Epsilon in Malaysian Pale

1976    Macula Transfer          Brain

1978    Ages    Virgin

1979    Stuntman

1982    Kamikaze 1989 (Film Soundtrack)

1983    Pinnacles

2005    Dalinetopia      Eastgate

Tangerine Dreams albums performed solely by Froese

Year     Album name    Label

2005    Phaedra 2005  Eastgate

2007    Summer in Nagasaki

One Times One

2008    Tangram 2008

Hyperborea 2008

2009    Chandra

A Cage in Search of a Bird

Winter in Hiroshima

2012    Machu Picchu

Compilations

Year     Album name    Label   Notes

1980    Electronic Dreams      Brain  

1981    Solo 1974–1979          Virgin

1995    Beyond the Storm       Includes new and remixed tracks

2003    Introduction to the Ambient Highway            TDP International        Sampler

Ambient Highway, Vol. 1       Includes new and remixed tracks

Ambient Highway, Vol. 2

Ambient Highway, Vol. 3

Ambient Highway, Vol. 4

2005    Orange Light Years     Eastgate

2012    Solo 1974–1983 – The Virgin Years   Virgin 

Other appearances

Year     Artist name      Song title         Album title      Notes

1981    Tangerine Dream        "Baryll Blue"  '70 – '80           Ages recording sessions outtake

1992    Various Artists "Michiko"       The Best of the O1/W Promotion of the Korg 01/W synthesizer.

2011    William Shatner          "Learning to Fly"        Seeking Major Tom    Played guitar and keyboards.

2013    "Do You See?"            Ponder the Mystery     Guitar solo