Soundmill Navigator (Live 1976) [Live] [Import]

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Live recording from 1976 from the classic line up including Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann. This live recording demonstrates their ability as technicians & musicians using keyboards, synthesizers, guitars & mellotrons to create ambient soundscapes. Standard jewel case.

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Soundmill Navigator

Album Description

Live recording from 1976 from the classic line up including Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Peter Baumann. This live recording demonstrates their ability as technicians & musicians using keyboards, synthesizers, guitars & mellotrons to create ambient soundscapes. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Buy the Boxset Instead.......2006-01-01

The concert on this cd (June 27, 1976 Berlin Philharmonie) can be found unaltered along with a bunch of other excellent, untampered concerts on the Tangerine Dream Bootleg Box Set Volume 1. This is an official release and sounds better than actual bootlegs or the mess that is Soundmill Navigator. Cheesy, obviously digital overdubs turn this cd into a wreck. The actual concert during the brief periods where you can hear it over the "Tangentization" is a classic. 1976 was a transitory year live for Tangerine Dream. They were beginning to bring some element of structure to their concerts. The freeform Moog freakouts were gradually being replaced by sequencers and the guitar noodling sounds suspicously like the opening chords to Pink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun". However, there is plenty to like, especially with their classic line up. Its a great concert. The band was in form that night (and many others). Soundmill Navigator is just not the place to buy it.

a great document.......2004-03-12

I would recomend it to anyone who wants something new from the classic period of the dream.They were in fine form that night ( the acid was good I guess).

Whit-whit, whit-whit....(get used to that sound).......2004-02-14

What a shame! TD finally releases an old "golden age" concert, as dedicated fans have been begging for, and we end up with this. If this this is TD's effort to "beat the boots", then they have failed miserably. I've heard dozens of "unofficial" TD concert recordings where the sound quality is utterly fantastic (like "Patrolling Space Borders", which someone else recommended) - couldn't they have released one of those instead?

Starting about 2 minutes into this CD, an annoying "whit-whit" noise starts, and it continues for the next 39 minutes. I'm not an audiophile, and I don't have any especially high-end equipment, but this is unlistenable. It's unfortunate, because it seems that the group was in fine form that night, with lots of ambient synth work, and a nice turn on guitar from Edgar Froese.

I am a fan of almost every phase of TD's career, but I know that a lot of folks stopped listening in the 80s. I didn't mind when they released the Tangents boxed set with the reworked versions of many old tracks, or Froese's solo retrospective with similar reworkings. Many fans saw this tampering with the past as a slap in the face to folks who didn't care for the band's current musical direction. If you're one of those people, be prepared to be slapped again.

I'd recommend picking up Encore or Ricochet instead if you need a dose of live 70s TD.

Excellent ambient stuff.......2003-12-07

I agree with other reviewers that this is a modern overdub of a classic live recording.
That said, I think this is what TD has been doing since it's beginning. Ricochet is an excellent recording BUT is a studio overdub (with studio tracks included) of a mix taken from TD's previous European gig, and that doesn't make Ricochet a bad recording but on the contrary it's a masterwork. Other examples of TD's overedub action being, Encore, Poland, Tangents (compilation)and the 3 dream mixes.

Soundmill Navigator does not deserve to qualify as a masterwork BUT it's an enjoyable fictional performance. Forget any expectation about listening to a historical record and you'll enjoy a kind of partially invented, or fictitious, live performance, mixing 21st century dubs with 30 year old synths.
It's very spacey, ambient, if you like, so if you enjoy a more rhythmic TD this CD might disappoint you.

Francisco

Confused? This is what's happened........2003-06-05

There seems to be much confusion about this release, let's see if I can clarify the situation.

The original concert that took place on the 27th June 1976 at the Berlin Philharmonie consisted of only one track which was 31mins 31secs in length. It's a justly famous performance and is out there in very good sound if you look for it.

This means therefore that an extra 10 mins worth of overdubs and added sounds have been added. Presumably in order to make it up to a minimum length for an official release. Anyway the result is horrible and this is a totally misguided release.

Hope that's cleared things up.

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