''Madcap's Flaming Duty'' is the ninety-eighth release and twenty-seventh major studio album by

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. Along with ''

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'' (1978) and '' Tyger'' (1987) it is one of the few Tangerine Dream releases to feature vocals. The album is a tribute to

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who died in 2006; the title references Barrett's album ''

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''. This is the first album to feature Bernhard Beibl who would remain a member until 2014.

Track listing

Personnel

Tangerine Dream *

Edgar Froese Edgar Willmar Froese (; 6 June 1944 – 20 January 2015) was a German musical artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream in 1967. Froese was the only continuous member of the group ...

– keyboards, guitars, drum programming, harmonica *

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– keyboards, drum programming, vocals *

Linda Spa Linda Spa (aka Mag. Gerlinde Spazierer, born 4 September 1968, in Vienna) is an Austrian composer. Originally she learned fashion design in Vienna, but soon started with her musical training. She studied flute, clarinet, saxophone and compos ...

– flute * Iris Camaa – percussion * Bernhard Beibl – guitars, violin, mandolin Additional musicians * Chris Hausl – vocals * Gynt Beator –

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* Thomas Beator –

References

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