''Tyranny of Beauty'' (1995) is the fifty-first release and twenty-third major studio album by
Tangerine Dream. Guitarist
Zlatko Perica
Zlatko Perica (born 16 February 1969 in Rijeka, Yugoslavia) is a guitarist.
He has played for the German group Tangerine Dream, does not appear on this album or its follow up ''
Goblins' Club'' (1996). His absence is filled by guest musicians
Gerald Gradwohl and Mark Hornby on both releases and during the groups London performance in November 1996.
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 ...
– electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, twelve-string guitar, drums, recording engineer, composer, producer
*
Jerome Froese – electric and acoustic guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, recording engineer, composer
*
Linda Spa – alto and soprano saxophones,
English horn
The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto ...
, sax arrangement on "Largo"
;Additional musicians
*
Gerald Gradwohl – electric and acoustic guitar
* Mark Hornby – electric and acoustic guitar,
twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...
,
EBow
;Credits
* Christian Gstettner – recording engineer
*
Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann (born 29 January 1953) is a German musician. He formed the core line-up of the pioneering German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976, whi ...
– composer "Stratosfear"
*
Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventua ...
– composer "Stratosfear"
*
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...
– composer "Largo"
* Gisela Kloetzer – string arrangements on "Largo"
Promo
A promotional CD-5 was released with edited versions of four tracks and the bonus track "Quasar", which was released on later versions of ''Tyranny of Beauty''.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM of the same title was published in Italy in 1995 as a freebie with the magazine ''New Age and New Sounds'' (catalogue no. NANS 047/B). Apart from the multimedia content it includes two audio tracks:
References
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1995 albums
Tangerine Dream albums
Virgin Records albums