Turn of the Tides is a studio album by the band Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

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Background

Furthering the development of their music, Tangerine Dream continued their musical approach that they had presented on their previous Miramar releases. Besides electronic equipment, TD was using guitar, saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 and backing vocals

Backing vocalist

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 once again. But their sound also seemed to be broader, which was shown in the flamenco guitar

Flamenco guitar

A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar. Flamenco guitar also refers to toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of Flamenco.-Brief history:...

 stylized Firetongues, the use of acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

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 in Twilight Brigade and other tracks that seemed to form a more atmospheric sound. According to the inside booklet of the CD, like a concept album

Concept album

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, these tracks are based on a short story written by Edgar Froese. It explains that the story is taken from a book called The Coachman's Tales. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such book with that title. Jayney Klimek

Jayney Klimek

Jayney Klimek , is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Family background:Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek is a successful Hollywood composer...

, who made an appearance on Dreamtime

Dreamtime (song)

-Background:Dreamtime was released alongside the band's live album 220 Volt Live in 1993. It contained 3 short tracks from the album, including the studio track Treasure of Innocence, a non album version of their cover of Purple Haze, and an alternate version of Dreamtime. The alternate version had...

, provided vocals for the track Galley Slave's Horizon. The opening track is a reworked Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

 piece, Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists...

. The re-released version of the album had a bonus track

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 called Story of the Brave, which had originated on the promo disc

Promotional recording

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 for the album. The time duration shown above includes this track.

This album was re-issued on the band's TDI label in 1996 and 1999, then again on Membran in 2009.

Tracklist

1. "Pictures At An Exhibition" – 3:01
2. "Firetongues" – 6:32
3. "Galley Slave's Horizon" – 7:47
4. "Death Of A Nightingale" – 5:30
5. "Twilight Brigade" – 9:45
6. "Jungle Journey" – 6:34
7. "Midwinter Night" – 4:38
8. "Turn Of The Tides" – 7:40
9. "Story of the Brave" – 5:17

Personnel

• Edgar Froese
  Edgar Froese
  Edgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...
  
  
• Jerome Froese
  Jerome Froese
  Jerome Froese is a musician who, in 1990, officially joined his father, Edgar Froese in the band Tangerine Dream. He remained a member until 2006; currently he is working on several other projects...
  
  
• Zlatko Perica
  Zlatko Perica
  Zlatko Perica is a guitarist.He has played for the German group Tangerine Dream, but in 1994 recorded his last studio album with the band, and in 1997 he would appear on his last live album with them...
  
  
• Linda Spa
  Linda Spa
  Linda Spa is an Austrian composer.Originally she learned fashion design in Vienna, but soon started with her musical training. She studied flute, clarinet, saxophone and composition...
  
  
• Jayney Klimek
  Jayney Klimek
  Jayney Klimek , is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Family background:Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek is a successful Hollywood composer...
  
  
• Vienna Horn Ensemble
• Julie Ocean
• Roland Braunstein – engineer