Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a vintage Berlin School synth jam for you – Tangerine Dream, Live At Coventry Cathedral:
In December 1974, Tangerine Dream were invited to play in the grand setting of Rheims Cathedral, a move certainly seen at the time as groundbreaking. Because of this, they were then invited to perform in the cathedrals of York, Liverpool and Coventry.
The tour attracted unprecedented coverage in the media, especially at Coventry Cathedral, an iconic building rising like a Phoenix on the ruins of the old cathedral bombed to bits by the Germans in 1940 (Tangerine Dream is, after all, a German band) as a celebration of peace and reconciliation, as well as a lasting showcase for great contemporary art. The nave is dominated by a gigantic tapestry by Graham Sutherland, the main door dwarfed by a sculpture of St Michael & The Devil by Jacob Epstein, and the consecration in 1962 heard the first performance of Britten’s incomparable ‘War Requiem.
This film released now for the first time on DVD will be welcomed by the massive Tangerine Dream fan base, and also seen for what it is – a meeting of cultures and for a brief moment in time, a time where the past met both the present and the future.
While the video is nice, I understand that the audio track is not even from that concert. Sources say that it's not even the right era of Tangerine Dreams music.
Reading more, it's from Ricochet (1975), another TD live concert. So, while it was from the same era, the audio track is from another concert.
Thus the complete lack of cause and effect in their playing……
How much of this do you think was actually played live and how much was from tape?
From what I've read, none of the audio is from that actual concert.
I remember the concert in the 1070s.__But unfortunately cant remember the music played
OOPS! I aint that hold.
1970s.
But its certainly the right era for the music on the soundtrack.
The actual audio is available as a bootleg and is absolutely fantastic….