Edgar Froese - Ages

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: 1983
This recording is related to a long trip Edgar made in the early 80´s to Australia.
The name Pinnacles is taken from a huge million years old petrified stone landscape in the Western desert part of Australia. Edgar made books full of notes during the trip and sang melody lines into a walkman type of pocket recorder while walking among the maybe oldest stonegarden on the planet.
Back in his Berlin studio he transfered all ideas into rhythm, melodies and sounds. As landscapes around the world have always inspired Edgar for some purposes, Pinnacles is another example of his great love for this planet and beyond.
Here the original first version from Virgin, where Froese played without any overdubs.

Here the last copy!