Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
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Artist: KaleidoscopeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-03-08
Music Label: Repertoire
Soundtracks:
- Kaleidoscope
- Please Excuse My Face
- Dive Into Yesterday
- Mr. Small, The Watch Repairman
- Flight From Ashiya
- Murder Of Lewis Tollani
- (Further Reflections) In The Room Of Percussion
- Dear Nellie Goodrich
- Holiday Maker
- A Lesson Perhaps
- Sky Children
- Flight From Ashiya (Mono Mix)
- Holiday Maker (Mono Single Mix)
- Dream For Julie
- Please Excuse My Face (Mono Single Mix)
- Jenny Artichoke
- Just How Much You Are
Music reviews of Tangerine Dream
Music Review: Quintessential English psych, songwriting still holds up well
Rating: 5 Stars
From a ways away, the cover of Kaleidoscope's (not to be confused with the US band of the exact same name) debut album, Tangerine Dream, resembles many other late 60's psychedelic album covers from both sides of the Atlantic; weird, swirly text, and a bunch of guys dressed in the outlandish fashion that was popular during those acid-fueled days. If you look a little closer, you'll notice that these guys were really just baby-faced kids when this album came out (even if one of them could grow a mustache). Despite their apparent fresh-faced youth and their attachment to a VERY popular musical movement that spawned as many middling bands as it did classics, today Tangerine Dream sounds like a cohesive, well-crafted psychedelic pop rock album, thanks especially to Peter Daltrey and Eddie Pumer's engaging songwriting, and some more original sounds and hooks that the band packed into the music.
The opener, "Kaleidoscope," makes it clear that this is 1967 British psych: a driving piano riff backs harmonizing vocals as they describe a vibrant perception of busy streets. Yep, we're in trip-land now, and if you don't like that kind of music, you're probably in the wrong place, because Tangerine Dream is catchy, trippy rock from start to finish. What's great is that even though Kaleidoscope is playing in an idiom sparked by the Beatles with Sgt. Pepper etc., they certainly aren't derivative. Less hard-rocking than, say, The Move or the Small Faces, and not quite as virtuosic as The Soft Machine--more along the sweet, off-kilter sounds of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn-era Pink Floyd, or Tomorrow.
The rest of the album is chock full of accessible moments, but also the British quirk and charm that makes this type of music resonate so well with some people. The creatively-titled "Please Excuse My Face" is a tender, vulnerable heartbreak tune set to nylon-stringed acoustic. "Dive Into Yesterday" might be my favorite track, with staccato morse-code-sounding guitar, shifting tempo and dynamics, snaky vocal harmonies, and a blissed-out, swirling bridge. You can tell Daltrey was influenced by Dylan (unsurprising, and not a bad thing), but he manages to go some really interesting and unique places with his writing.
Many of the songs have the dark themes of isolation commonly found in British psych, like "Mr. Small, The Watch Repairer Man," "Flight From Ashiya" (about a doomed airline flight), and "The Murder of Lewis Tollani." Despite these weighty themes, Daltrey pulls it off with grace, a light hand, and manages to back the words with music that isn't depressing. "In The Room of Percussion" has edgier echoes of the Byrds, and the album's closer, the epic "The Sky Children," is absolutely sublime, dreamy, and perfect. In my opinion, the only misstep is "A Lesson Perhaps," a spoken-word/classical guitar story that gets a bit too caught up in forced poetics to really make a strong point.
Overall, this is one of the better British psych albums I've come across--I've enjoyed it enough to check out their second, Faintly Blowing. As with their usual standards, Repertoire's reissue is great--glossy digipak case, lots of photos (check out those guys' clothes and hairstyles!), some enlightening notes, and some worthwhile bonus tracks--single versions of a few, and the flawless, jaunty pop of "Jenny Artichoke." Since Kaleidoscope had to make a few hit singles before a record company would invest in Tangerine Dream, it's cool to hear the songs that got them their record deal. If you like British psychedelic, chances are you'll enjoy this record.
Description of Tangerine Dream
The British group, not to be confused with the American band Kaleidoscope. This band was also psychedelic, and was around at the same time in the late '60s.Classic Rock CDs
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