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Alpha Centauri (album)

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Track listing
Personnel
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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}{{Infobox album
| name = Alpha Centauri
| type = Studio album
| artist = Tangerine Dream
| cover = Alpha Centauri.png
| alt =
| caption = 1971 LP album cover
| released = March 1971
| recorded = January 1971
| venue =
| studio = Dierks Studio
| genre = {{flatlist|

Krautrock^[1]
space music^[1]

}}
| length = 39:48
| label = Ohr
| producer = Tangerine Dream
| prev_title = Electronic Meditation
| prev_year = 1970
| next_title = Zeit
| next_year = 1972
}}

Alpha Centauri is the second album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream, released in March 1971 by record label Ohr.

Content

The music on this album is quite different from Tangerine Dream’s first album Electronic Meditation, partly because of a heavier reliance on keyboards and electronic technology, although they still mostly remain in the background: the dominant instruments on the album are organ and flute. The other difference is that this album focuses on dark, spacey soundscapes as opposed to jam sessions.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} The shift in instrumentation resulted in an atmosphere dubbed by Edgar Froese himself as "kosmische musik".{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Julian Cope's Head Heritage wrote that the album "used the space rock template from[Pink Floyd's] [A] Saucerful of Secrets (and removed the rock)".^[2]

A nowadays extremely rare single "Ultima Thule" was released in the same year. Side 1 employs the same guitar riff as "Fly and Collision of Comas Sola", but the single was at the time otherwise an unconnected release. Re-releases of Alpha Centauri in the 2000s have however included either or both parts of Ultima Thule as bonus tracks.

Release

{{Album ratings
|rev1=AllMusic
|rev1score={{Rating|2.5|5}}^[1]
|rev2=Pitchfork
|rev2score=7.8/10^[3]
}}

Alpha Centauri was released on March 1971 by record label Ohr. It sold 20,000 copies in their native Germany, nearly four times as many as their later classic Phaedra.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}

Track listing

{{tracklist
| headline = Side A
|title1=Sunrise in the Third System
|length1= 4:21
|title2=Fly and Collision of Comas Sola
|length2=13:23
}}{{track listing
| headline = Side B
|title1=Alpha Centauri
|length1=22:04
}}{{track listing
| headline = Reissue bonus tracks
| collapsed = yes
|title4= Oszillator Planet Concert
|length4= 8:03
|note4=Sanctuary/Castle (2002), Arcàngelo (2004), Reactive/Esoteric (2011)
|title5=Ultima Thule, Part One (2000 remix)
|length5=3:24
|note5=Arcàngelo (2004), Reactive/Esoteric (2011)
|title6=Ultima Thule, Part Two
|length6=4:24
|note6=Reactive/Esoteric (2011)
}}

Personnel

Edgar Froese – guitar, organ, bass, coffee machine, composer
Christopher Franke – drums, percussion, flute, zither, piano, VCS3
Steve Schroyder – organ, voice, echo machines, iron stick
Udo Dennebourg – flute, voice
Roland Paulyck – synthesizer

References

1. ^¹{{allmusic |last=Breece |first=Michael G. |title=Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri |class=album |id=mw0000196012 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/2225 |title=Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Tangerine Dream – Atem |date=9 March 2012}}
3. ^¹{{cite web |title=Tangerine Dream: Electronic Meditation/Alpha Centauri |date=6 February 2003 |last=Leone |first=Dominique |work=Pitchfork |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11847-electronic-meditationalpha-centauri/}}

External links

{{discogs master|master=13719|name=Alpha Centauri}}

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