Tangerine Dream

on this article about his solo release "Poland", it mentions track one have an old recording of TD from 1967. was he a part of the band? i didn't know any TD recordings existed from that time

Yes, he was member of Tangerine Dream. But this was around 1969 and not 1967!!!

The lineup at this time was Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze and Steve Jolliffe. They did a short germany tour together.

The excerpt is a short improvisation from that time where you can hear Edgar Froese jamming on guitar.

You can read more about this time here:

http://www.stevejolliffe.net/archive-1/interview-3/

You can also read his autobiography where he writes about more details.

Look, here is a short clip from that era with Edgar Froese and Steve Jolliffe at the end of the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof4Fh9MDac

They met in an electronic music studio in Berlin. The drummer is Al Akhbar who was replaced by Klaus Schulze shortly after that.

phaedra1974 wrote:Look, here is a short clip from that era with Edgar Froese and Steve Jolliffe at the end of the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof4Fh9MDac

They met in an electronic music studio in Berlin. The drummer is Al Akhbar who was replaced by Klaus Schulze shortly after that.

Thomas Kessler's 'Beat Studio' in Wilmersdorf, Berlin. Originally partly funded by Chris Franke's mother

ok, so what was the 1968 line-up? was it completely changed from the 1967 line-up?

Is his solo music any good, I must say I have not bothered with anything. going by some of the titles and covers I get a feeeling his music might be New Age stuff whatever that means

cantosis wrote:Is his solo music any good, I must say I have not bothered with anything. going by some of the titles and covers I get a feeeling his music might be New Age stuff whatever that means

Steve Jolliffes music is definitely not New Age.
There are three albums "Broken wings", "Alien" and "Ethereal" with relaxing electronic world music but I wouldn´t call them New Age.

Steve has released a lot of great ambient albums and also some jazz and classical stuff.

It is very unfair for a musician to write such deprecative things if you have NO knowledge about his music...

phaedra1974 wrote:

cantosis wrote:Is his solo music any good, I must say I have not bothered with anything. going by some of the titles and covers I get a feeeling his music might be New Age stuff whatever that means

Steve Jolliffes music is definitely not New Age.
There are three albums "Broken wings", "Alien" and "Ethereal" with relaxing electronic world music but I wouldn´t call them New Age.

Steve has released a lot of great ambient albums and also some jazz and classical stuff.

It is very unfair for a musician to write such deprecative things if you have NO knowledge about his music...

SO I take it your not a new age music fan

cantosis wrote:

phaedra1974 wrote:

cantosis wrote:Is his solo music any good, I must say I have not bothered with anything. going by some of the titles and covers I get a feeeling his music might be New Age stuff whatever that means

Steve Jolliffes music is definitely not New Age.
There are three albums "Broken wings", "Alien" and "Ethereal" with relaxing electronic world music but I wouldn´t call them New Age.

Steve has released a lot of great ambient albums and also some jazz and classical stuff.

It is very unfair for a musician to write such deprecative things if you have NO knowledge about his music...

SO I take it your not a new age music fan

My recommendations if you want to dip your toe into his music is to try 'Beyond the Dream' and 'Omni'. They're two favourites of mine.

cantosis wrote:

phaedra1974 wrote:

cantosis wrote:Is his solo music any good, I must say I have not bothered with anything. going by some of the titles and covers I get a feeeling his music might be New Age stuff whatever that means

Steve Jolliffes music is definitely not New Age.
There are three albums "Broken wings", "Alien" and "Ethereal" with relaxing electronic world music but I wouldn´t call them New Age.

Steve has released a lot of great ambient albums and also some jazz and classical stuff.

It is very unfair for a musician to write such deprecative things if you have NO knowledge about his music...

SO I take it your not a new age music fan

In truth some of Steve's music does edge towards NA stuff...BUT he's far too good a musician to be labelled under that hideous title.

try Journeys out of the Body