Baumann, Peter

Artist: Peter Baumann & Paul Haslinger
P: 2019
This Blu-Ray+DVD video experience includes the amazing visuals of NEULAND within one non-stop movie format. Experience NEULAND the way it was meant to with stunning visuals specifically tailored for all 15 tracks!

"Long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe Neuland. After all, its core synth cadets (former Tangerine Dream members Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger) first workshopped a record under a different name (Blue Room) nearly 30 years ago. Its promising sessions were ultimately shelved, but the project's creative process firmly established their friendship and a fruitful dialogue that defies explanation. Neuland started the way many long overdue projects do: with Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann asking themselves, "Why isn't there anything out there like this?" In their case, that meant a deeply immersive debut album that’s respectful of their roots in Tangerine Dream but exists on its own astral plane, Far more restless than most ambient records, the pair's self-titled LP is both focused and freeing, alluding to everything from weightless grime melodies to windswept film scores. And while there are hints of many different modern artists here (Oneohtrix Point Never's sci-fi scapes, Zombi's prog nods, the mechanical animal melodies of Amon Tobin and Arca), Neuland is ultimately the sound of something entirely new.
"It all boils down to one word, transcendence" explains Baumann.

Artist: Peter Baumann & Paul Haslinger
P: 2019
"Long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe Neuland. After all, its core synth cadets (former Tangerine Dream members Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger) first workshopped a record under a different name (Blue Room) nearly 30 years ago. Its promising sessions were ultimately shelved, but the project's creative process firmly established their friendship and a fruitful dialogue that defies explanation. Neuland started the way many long overdue projects do: with Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann asking themselves, "Why isn't there anything out there like this?" In their case, that meant a deeply immersive debut album that’s respectful of their roots in Tangerine Dream but exists on its own astral plane, Far more restless than most ambient records, the pair's self-titled LP is both focused and freeing, alluding to everything from weightless grime melodies to windswept film scores. And while there are hints of many different modern artists here (Oneohtrix Point Never's sci-fi scapes, Zombi's prog nods, the mechanical animal melodies of Amon Tobin and Arca), Neuland is ultimately the sound of something entirely new.
"It all boils down to one word, transcendence" explains Baumann.

Artist: Peter Baumann
P: 2016
Peter Baumann: 'Machines of Desire is filled with many influences, not least of them, my time with Tangerine Dream. Recording this album has been a very rich experience that fulfilled my creative desires, with more to come.

Artist: Peter Baumann
P: 1976 / 2016
We are pleased to announce a newly remastered CD release for the seminal German Electronic & Ambient musician Peter Baumann’s debut solo album, “Romance ‘76”. NEW REMASTERED CD RELEASE FOR THIS CLASSIC GERMAN AMBIENT / ELECTRONIC ALBUM FROM 1976 BY TANGERINE DREAM MEMBER PETER BAUMANN • UNAVAILABLE ON CD FOR TWENTY YEARS Esoteric Recording’s Reactive label is pleased to announce a newly remastered CD release for the seminal German Electronic & Ambient musician Peter Baumann’s debut solo album, “Romance ‘76”. Peter Baumann came to prominence as a key member of TANGERINE DREAM, joining Edgar Froese and Chris Franke in the group in 1971 and making his debut on the album “Zeit”. His contribution was felt on the classic Tangerine Dream albums released by Virgin Records issued between 1974 & 1976, “Phaedra”, “Rubicon”, “Ricochet” and “Stratosphere”. In 1976 he embarked on a solo career with his classic work “Romance ’76”, recorded in July and August that year in Berlin and Munich. The result was a remarkable album that is now held in huge esteem by aficionados of German Electronic Music. Unavailable on CD for over twenty years, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is newly re-mastered and restores the original album artwork and includes a booklet with new essay.

Artist: Peter Baumann
P: 1979 / 2016
We are pleased to announce a newly re-mastered CD release for the seminal German Electronic & Ambient musician Peter Baumann’s 1979 solo album, “Trans Harmonic Nights”. Peter Baumann came to prominence as a key member of TANGERINE DREAM, joining Edgar Froese and Chris Franke in the group in 1971 and making his debut on the album “Zeit”. His contribution was felt on the classic Tangerine Dream albums released by Virgin Records issued between 1974 & 1976, “Phaedra”, “Rubicon”, “Ricochet” and “Stratosphere”. In 1976 he embarked on a solo career with his classic work “Romance ’76”, a remarkable album that is now held in huge esteem by aficionados of German Electronic Music. His next work as a solo artist was the equally remarkable and ground-breaking album “Trans Harmonic Nights”, recorded in Berlin between July 1978 and January 1979, a release which pre-empted and influenced the protagonists of synthesiser based music that would burst forth in the 1980s. Unavailable on CD for over twenty years, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is newly re-mastered and restores the original album artwork and includes a booklet with new essay.