Froese, Edgar

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1979/ 1997
Originally a double LP AGES. Edgar started recording this album 1978 after a long European Tour with Tangerine Dream. He played all instruments himself and is accompanied by percussionist and drummer Klaus Krieger.
All tracks composed, produced, written and played by Edgar Froese.

Here the last copy of the original Virgin version!

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1979/ 2004
AGES is the third of Edgar’s solo works. Originally a double LP AGES is now newly re–mixed, partly re-recorded and re-mastered. Edgar started recording this album 1978 after a long European Tour with Tangerine Dream. He played all instruments himself and is accompanied by percussionist and drummer Klaus Krieger.
The remixing has not been overdone, it sounds good (though the start of Metropolis sounds a little raw) and often sounds more like Tangerine Dream around the early eighties. This is a decent upgrade to the old recording out of the 90ies.
The original studio album is from 1979.
This is the re-recorded music from 2004.
All tracks composed, produced, written and played by Edgar Froese.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1979/ 2009
Japan HiQuality CD
AGES is the third of Edgar’s solo works. Originally a double LP AGES is now newly re–mixed, partly re-recorded and re-mastered. Edgar started recording this album 1978 after a long European Tour with Tangerine Dream. He played all instruments himself and is accompanied by percussionist and drummer Klaus Krieger.
The remixing has not been overdone, it sounds good (though the start of Metropolis sounds a little raw) and often sounds more like Tangerine Dream around the early eighties. This is a decent upgrade to the old recording out of the 90ies.
The original studio album is from 1979.
This is the re-recorded music from 2004.
All tracks composed, produced, written and played by Edgar Froese.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 2003
This is volume 2 of a serie of four albums called "Edgar W. Froese - Ambient Highway Vol. 1 - 4" and will be backed by a compilation album that is put together from tracks contained on these albums which is aptly titled "Introduction to the Ambient Highway".
The four albums are intended as a sort of mixture of a retrospective on Froese´s earlier solo work with new and re-recorded pieces. As a few of his earlier solo releases are currently out of print and therefore hard to come by, these albums will fill a gap for those who do not own any of these efforts, yet will still contain enough new material and different versions of previously released tracks to appeal to the diehard collectors.
These 4 CDs provide an interesting overview of the career of this grand master of electronic music, but they are by no means indispensable. For those of you who would like to acquire just one of these volumes, Vol. 3 seems to be the best choice. Vol. 1 is the most interesting one, if you want more recent and new material.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 2003
This is volume 3 of a serie of four albums called "Edgar W. Froese - Ambient Highway Vol. 1 - 4" and will be backed by a compilation album that is put together from tracks contained on these albums which is aptly titled "Introduction to the Ambient Highway".
The four albums are intended as a sort of mixture of a retrospective on Froese´s earlier solo work with new and re-recorded pieces. As a few of his earlier solo releases are currently out of print and therefore hard to come by, these albums will fill a gap for those who do not own any of these efforts, yet will still contain enough new material and different versions of previously released tracks to appeal to the diehard collectors.
A mixture of new stuff and re-recordings of Edgar's earlier solo works and TD material. In general I would say that the overall sound picture is very much like what we have got to know from TD's releases over the last few years (you can hear traces from Transsiberia, Seven letters as well as Mota Atma).
In fact vol. 3 kicks off with Down to Barstow, which could easily have fit into the Mota Atma album. As for the re-recordings, I have always had a mixed feeling about that. Here we get extracts from Macula, Ages, Stuntman and Pinnacles in new versions. Those of you who know Tangents will have a pretty good idea what to expect.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 2003
This is volume 4 of a serie of four albums called "Edgar W. Froese - Ambient Highway Vol. 1 - 4" and will be backed by a compilation album that is put together from tracks contained on these albums which is aptly titled "Introduction to the Ambient Highway".

The four albums are intended as a sort of mixture of a retrospective on Froese´s earlier solo work with new and re-recorded pieces. As a few of his earlier solo releases are currently out of print and therefore hard to come by, these albums will fill a gap for those who do not own any of these efforts, yet will still contain enough new material and different versions of previously released tracks to appeal to the diehard collectors.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1974 / 2005 / 2009
This is the Japan version. HiQualityCD. Tangerine Dream Eastgate Era collection vol.1.
The original studio album is from 1974.
This is the re-recorded music from 2005.
Edgar added many percussionsounds, rhythms and one more track. The music is quiet more modern now and you can't compare it with the old first release. It is a different music now.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1974
Edgar’s first solo trip into the wide and open landscape of sounds. Back in 1974 when this record was released for the first time, no 24 multitrack machines did exist. With the money Edgar earned with Tangerine Dream, he bought himself a couple of Revox ¼ inch tape machines to record this music under very adventurous circumstances. Edgar said during his first press conference as a solo artist, it might have been the first ´bed and bathroom´ recording ever done. The water you can hear is the water tube in his apartment. The airplane had been recorded with a so-called artificial head system hanging out of the apartments window when planes were approaching the Berlin airport. Today it is a classic within the field of chilly ambient music.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1974 / 2005
The original studio album is from 1974.
This is the re-recorded music from 2005.
Edgar added many percussionsounds, rhythms and one more track. The music is quiet more modern now and you can't compare it with the old first release. It is a different music now.

Artist: Edgar Froese
P: 1995
In 1995, twelve years after Edgar Froese's last solo production Pinnacles in 1983, a double CD was released by Virgin, consisting of 28 tracks, part of them revealed for the first time.
According to Froese: "The unreleased material consists of original compositions which were created over the last twenty years or so. Part of them existed as lead sheets, part on multi-tracked tapes, some from the original source on 1/4 inch tapes (which disintegrated upon being played). A lot of the ideas from these fragments were incorporated into the new recordings. It's impossible for me to give the precise date for each piece of music, since my library of unreleased musical anecdotes encompasses more than 60 hours of music. When Virgin asked me to assemble this compilation, I felt there were several 'missing links' in the background feeling and came up with drawing on a very small percentage of my private recordings. There are about 52 hours left to be used – sometime!"
The material taken from the earlier solo recordings has been reworked by Edgar Froese like he did one year before with TD material for the compilation Tangents. Some of the tracks have been only slightly reworked, others, like Upland, are radically remixed: After an intro with sound effects from the 1974 version, a strong rhythm is introduced which makes it hardly impossible to recognize the original composition. Some of the previously unreleased material was composed years ago and was only produced or overlayed with the help of modern equipment.
But this is not the only thing in common with TD's Tangents box: Also the booklet of Beyond The Storm contains a long essay by British music journalist Mark Prendergast, it contains similar computer and alienated photo artwork but no photograph of the musician - and once again, with the text layout Virgin included a sight test in the booklet.
The booklet mentions the CD title as Season Beyond The Storm which was shortened to be the final title. The text does not give any hints to the time when the previously unreleased material was composed, so it is up to the listener to compare this music to other TD and Froese solo material.