Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 50 - Set One - Birmingham Town Hall - 08-05-2025

Tangerine Dream continue to celebrate their groundbreaking Phaedra album with two more incredible shows in May 2025!

Fans can look forward to an unforgettable experience as the band performs the entire iconic album live, along with beloved fan favorites:

May 08, 2025 – Birmingham (UK), Town Hall, Tickets
May 09, 2025 – Manchester (UK), Aviva Studios - The Hall, Tickets
Don’t miss the chance to join this ongoing musical journey and be part of the Phaedra 50th anniversary celebrations. 🎉

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The group has seen many personnel changes over the years, with Froese the only constant member until his death in January 2015. The best-known lineup of the group was its mid-1970s trio of Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. In 1979, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann until his own departure in 1985. This lineup was notable for composing many movie soundtracks. Since Froese's death in 2015, the group has been under the leadership of Thorsten Quaeschning. Quaeschning is Froese's chosen successor and is currently the longest-serving band member, having joined in 2005. Quaeschning is currently joined by violinist Hoshiko Yamane who joined in 2011 and Paul Frick who joined in 2020. Prior to this Quaeschning and Yamane performed with Ulrich Schnauss from 2014 to 2020. Schnauss only played two shows with Froese in November 2014 before Froese's passing.

Tangerine Dream are considered a pioneering act in electronica.[3] Their work with the electronic music Ohr label produced albums that had a pivotal role in the development of the German musical scene known as kosmische Musik ("cosmic music"). Their "Virgin Years", so called because of their association with Virgin Records, produced albums that further explored synthesizers and sequencers, including the UK top 20 albums Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975). The group also had a successful career composing film soundtracks, creating over 60 scores.

From the late 1990s into the 2000s, Tangerine Dream continued to explore other styles of instrumental music as well as electronica. Their recorded output has been prolific, including over one hundred albums. Among other scoring projects, they helped create the soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. Their mid-1970s work has been profoundly influential in the development of electronic music styles such as new-age and electronic dance music.

On 29 September 2017, the band released an all-new music studio album entitled Quantum Gate. In December 2019, they released Recurring Dreams, a compilation of new recordings of some of the band's classic compositions. On 26 November 2021, the band released an EP entitled Probe 6–8 (including three tracks: "Raum", "Para Guy" and "Continuum"), whose concept was developed further on their following album Raum, their latest studio album to date which was released on 25 February 2022.

Live and studio albums:

Phaedra
Rubycon
Stratosfear
Cyclone
Force Majeure
Tangram
Exit
White Eagle
Hyperborea
Underwater Sunlight
Tyger
Ricochet
Encore
Poland

Electronic Meditation
Alpha Centauri
Zeit
Atem
Quichotte Re-released in 1986 as Pergamon
Logos Live
Le Parc
Green Desert Remixed from a 1973)

Livemiles Re-released in 1996 as Live Miles
Optical Race
Lily on the Beach
Melrose
Quinoa
Rockoon
220 Volt Live
Turn of the Tides
Tyranny of Beauty
The Dream Mixes Series: Dream Mixes
Goblins' Club
Tournado
TimeSquare – Dream Mixes II Series: Dream Mixes
Ambient Monkeys
Valentine Wheels
Sohoman
Mars Polaris
Soundmill Navigator
Antique Dreams
The Seven Letters from Tibet
The Past Hundred Moons Series: Dream Mixes
Inferno
Optical Race
Lily On The Beach
Melrose
The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1
DM 4 Dream Mixes
Rockface
The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2
Purgatorio
Aachen
Montreal
Paris
Sydney
Ottawa
East
Arizona
Cleveland
Brighton
Kyoto
Jeanne d'Arc
Rocking Mars
Phaedra 2005
Blue Dawn
Paradiso
Springtime In Nagasaki
Madcap's Flaming Duty
Summer In Nagasaki
ne Times One
Detroit
Preston
Tangerine Dream Plays Tangerine Dream
Purple Diluvial
Views from a Red Train
The Anthology Decades
Tangram 2008
Hyperborea 2008
Autumn in Hiroshima
Flame
Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part I
Dussmann Berlin
Winter in Hiroshima
DM V
Zeitgeist Concert
Under Cover – Chapter One
The Endless Season
The Island of the Fay
The Angel of the West Window
The Gate of Saturn
Finnegans Wake
Knights of Asheville
Live at Admiralspalast Berlin
Cruise to Destiny
Starmus — Sonic Universe with Brian May
Lost in Strings — Volume I
Franz Kafka — The Castle Series: Eastgate's Sonic Poems
Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part II
Sorcerer 2014
Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014
Supernormal
Live at the Philharmony Szczecin-Poland
Quantum Gate
Live at Augusta Raurica Switzerland 2016
Raum
Live in Reims Cinema Opera

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