Ricochet (Tangerine Dream album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Ricochet


Caption = 1975 LP album cover
Type = Live album
Artist = Tangerine Dream
Released = December 1975
Recorded = 1975
Genre = Electronic music
Length = 38:15
Label = Virgin
Producer = Tangerine Dream
Reviews =
* Allmusic: Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:rya9kettjq7m link]
Last album = "Rubycon" (1975)
This album = "Ricochet" (1975)
Next album = "Stratosfear" (1976)__NOTOC__ "Ricochet" is the first live album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream. The album was released in 1975. It consists of two long compositions mixed from taped recordings of the England and France portions of their fall 1975 European Tour. The sound of the album is similar to the group's other "Virgin Years" releases, relying heavily on synthesizers and sequencers to produce a dense ambient soundscape. Ricochet utilizes more percussion and electronic guitar than its predecessors Phaedra and Rubycon, bordering on electronic rock. The principal innovation on the album is its use of complex multi-layered rhythms, foreshadowing not only the band's own direction in the 80s, but also trance music and similar genres of electronic dance music.

Much of the raw material for "Ricochet", in particular part 2, was recorded at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, London during Tangerine Dream's live performance there in October, 1975. The original, unedited version of this performance can be heard in set 3 of "The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1". [cite album-notes |title=Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1 |bandname=Tangerine Dream |year=2003 |notestitle=Tangerine Dream Live in the 70s |format=CD booklet |first=Russell |last=Paul |publisher=Sanctuary Records Group |location=London] No other source concerts have so far been identified.

After the Top 20 placings for "Phaedra" and "Rubycon", "Ricochet" fared less well in sales terms, spending just two weeks on the UK album chart, reaching number 40.

In the original release of "Ricochet", the sound of two hands clapping can be heard at the beginning of the second track. This sound has been edited out in some of the re-released versions of the album, notably Virgin's 1995 "Definitive Edition" CD release, presumably being regarded as noise. [cite web |last=Berling |first=Michael |url=http://www.vitn.homepage.t-online.de/ricochet.htm |title=Ricochet |work=Voices in the Net |accessdate=2008-02-15 ]

Track listing

#"Ricochet, Part One" – 17:02
#"Ricochet, Part Two" – 21:13

Personnel

* Edgar Froese – keyboards, guitar
* Peter Baumann – keyboards
* Christopher Franke – keyboards, drums

ingles

*"Ricochet (Part I)" – "Ricochet (Part II)"
*"Excerpt From Ricochet"

References