Inferno (Tangerine Dream album) explained

Inferno
Type:	live
Longtype:	with studio elements
Artist:	Tangerine Dream
Cover:	TangDreamInferno.jpg
Recorded:	October 7, 2001 (live) 2002 (studio overdubs)
Venue:	St. Marien Church, Bernau, Germany
Genre:	Modern classical, electronic, ambient
Length:	79:02
Label:	TDI Music
Producer:	Edgar Froese^[1]
Prev Title:	The Past Hundred Moons
Prev Year:	2001
Next Title:	The Melrose Years
Next Year:	2002

Inferno is the seventy-third release and twelfth live album by German electronic group Tangerine Dream. It is the first live album to feature new compositions since 220 Volt Live (1993). The lyrical content is based on the first part of the Italian narrative poem Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.^[2] Inferno is the first album to feature percussionist Iris Camaa who remained with the group until 2014.

Reception

Prog Archives described the work as "something of quite astonishing beauty".^[3] The Times Literary Supplement called the work a "musical extravaganza".^[4]

Tangerine Dream used the album as a modern soundtrack for the 1911 Italian silent film L'Inferno.^[5] Nick Hasted in The Independent wrote that while the film was a "fascinating relic", with their soundtrack "Tangerine Dream add momentum and even melodrama, restricting themselves at times to dark, low strings."^[6] Ed Potton included the album in The Times 2021 list of "The 20 best film soundtracks".^[7]

Album trilogy

Inferno is the first album of a trilogy consisting of the following albums all inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy:

• Inferno (2002)
• Purgatorio (2004)
• Paradiso (2006)^{[1] [2]}

Track listing

All compositions are by Edgar Froese, except where indicated.

1. "Before the Closing of the Day" - 4:50
2. "The Spirit of Virgil" - 2:39
3. "Minotaurae Hunt at Dawn" - 3:24
4. "Those Once Broke the First Word" - 3:38
5. "Dante in Despair" - 3:25
6. "Io Non Mor" - 5:49
7. "Vidi Tre Facce" - 4:41
8. "At the Deepest Point in Space" - 2:38
9. "L'omperador Del Doloroso Regno" - 4:45
10. "Voices in the Starless Night" - 4:14
11. "Fear and Longing" - 3:06
12. "Fallen for Death" - 4:38
13. "Where All Light Went Silent" - 3:39
14. "Charon, Il Barchere" - 3:59
15. "La Grey De Los Almas Perdidas" - 7:28
16. "Justice of the Karma Law" - 3:02 (Jerome Froese)
17. "As the Sun Moves Towards Heaven" - 7:57 (Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese)
18. "Beatrice, L'Âme Infinie" - 5:10

Personnel

Tangerine Dream

• Edgar Froesekeyboards, sequencer
• Jerome Froesekeyboards, sequencer
• Iris Camaa (credited as "Iris Kulterer")kettledrums, percussion, alto vocals

Guest vocalists

• Bianca Acquayealto vocals
• Jayney Klimekalto vocals
• Claire Foquetmezzo vocals
• Barbara Kindermannsoprano vocals
• Bry Gonzalessoprano vocals
• Jane Monetsoprano vocals

External links

• Inferno on YouTube

Notes and References

1. Web site: Inferno . Michael . Berling . voices-in-the-net.de . 3 April 2020.
2. Web site: Froese-Acquaye . Bianca . Dante - the Electronic Opera by Tangerine Dream . 29 December 2021.
3. Web site: INFERNO: Tangerine Dream • Progressive Electronic . ProgArchives . 29 December 2021.
4. News: Thomson . Ian . Review: Force Majeure: Tangerine Dream - The Autobiography . 29 December 2021 . . 4 September 2020.
5. Web site: Guerra . Felipe M. . Electric dreams: (almost) all the soundtracks of Tangerine Dream . Medium.com: FanFare . 27 August 2020 . 29 December 2021.
6. Web site: Recent Reviews . LInferno.com . 29 December 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20040327025138/https://www.linferno.com/reviews.htm . 27 March 2004 . dead.
7. News: Potton . Ed . The 20 best film soundtracks . 29 December 2021 . . 23 October 2021.