Tangerine Dream : Quichotte (Vinyl)

0:00:00 - Quichotte Part One [] 0:23:21 - Quichotte Part Two [] January 31, 1980 Palast der Republik (East Berlin) Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Johannes Schmoelling. Johannes Schmoelling made his first public appearance as a member of Tangerine Dream during their January 31st, 1980 concerts at the ’Palast der Republik’ in the former East Berlin, particularly notable since TD was the first Western “rock“ band allowed by the Communist government to perform there. An album recording of highlights of these concerts, titled Quichotte, was released that year on the East German label Amiga only. It consists of two long tracks of partly improvised music. Themes from the album Tangram can be heard throughout the album, as the concert took place during the process of preparing material for that studio album. Edgar Froese and Chris Franke had remixed and edited the music in East Berlin as part of the original deal. Six years later it was made available to the res