Madcap's Flaming Duty is the ninety-eighth release and twenty-seventh major studio album by Tangerine Dream.[4] Along with Cyclone (1978) and Tyger (1987) it is one of the few Tangerine Dream releases to feature vocals. The album is a tribute to Syd Barrett who died in 2006; the title references Barrett's album The Madcap Laughs. This is the first album to feature Bernhard Beibl who would remain a member until 2014.
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| Released | April 2007 | |||
| Recorded | October 2006 | |||
| Genre | Electronic,[1] ambient,[2] new-age[3] | |||
| Length | 73:43 | |||
| Label | Eastgate | |||
| Producer | Edgar Froese | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | (not rated)[1] |
| PopMatters | positive[2] |
| Sputnikmusic | 4/5[3] |
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Astrophel and Stella" (16th century English poetry) | Music by Froese Froese, Lyrics by Sir Philip Sidney | 7:21 |
| 2. | "Shape my Sin" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Christian Torsa | 4:50 |
| 3. | "The Blessed Damozel" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Dante G. Rossetti | 5:16 |
| 4. | "Divorce" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Thomas Stanley | 4:46 |
| 5. | "Dream of Death" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Edmund C. Stedman | 7:46 |
| 6. | "Hear the Voice" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake | 5:08 |
| 7. | "Lake of Pontchartrain" (Traditional Irish) | Music and Lyrics 'Irish Traditional', Arranged by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning | 7:23 |
| 8. | "Mad Song" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake | 5:08 |
| 9. | "One Hour of Madness" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Walt Whitman | 8:29 |
| 10. | "Man" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by George Herbert | 4:47 |
| 11. | "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Percy B. Shelley | 6:24 |
| 12. | "Solution to all Problems" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 6:24 |
| 13. | "The Burning Babe's Reality Song" (bonus track) | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Robert Southwell | 5:33 |
Personnel
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- Edgar Froese – keyboards, guitars, drum programming, harmonica
- Thorsten Quaeschning – keyboards, drum programming, vocals
- Linda Spa – flute
- Iris Camaa – percussion
- Bernhard Beibl – guitars, violin, mandolin
Additional musicians
- Chris Hausl – vocals
- Gynt Beator – Irish bouzouki
- Thomas Beator – Irish bouzouki
References
edit- ^ a b Madcap's Flaming Duty at AllMusic
- ^ a b Xia, Edward (24 May 2007). "Tangerine Dream: Madcaps Flaming Duty". PopMatters.
- ^ a b Fatali, Liberi. "Tangerine Dream: Madcap's Flaming Duty". Sputnikmusic.
- ^ Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Madcap's Flaming Duty". Voices in the Net.