Product Description
Rare High Quality Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing Still In Immaculate Condition! Beautiful Sounding Vinyl, Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes Insert, Labels Are Clean. The Best Tangerine Dream LP, ‘Phaedra’ Is A Masterpiece Of Electronic Music!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds amazing!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Phaedra
Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares
Side 2:
Movements Of A Visionary
Sequent C’
AMG –
A brilliant and compelling summation of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the synthesizer/sequencer technology. Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the synthesizer/sequencer technology just beginning to gain a foothold in nonacademic circles. The result is best heard on the 15-minute title track, unparalleled before or since for its depth of sound and vision. Given focus by the arpeggiated trance that drifts in and out of the mix, the track progresses through several passages including a few surprisingly melodic keyboard lines and an assortment of eerie Moog and Mellotron effects, gaseous explosions, and windy sirens. Despite the impending chaos, the track sounds more like a carefully composed classical work than an unrestrained piece of noise. While the title track takes the cake, there are three other excellent tracks on Phaedra. "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" is a solo Edgar Froese song that uses some surprisingly emotive and affecting synthesizer washes, and "Movements of a Visionary" is a more experimental piece, using treated voices and whispers to drive its hypnotic arpeggios. Perhaps even more powerful as a musical landmark now than when it was first recorded, Phaedra has proven the test of time.