Tangerine Dream’s fifth album entered the world on February 20 1974 (it’s and still that date in most of the rest of the world, so I’m on time), and we can at least indirectly thank the late Kenneth Anger for that, apparently… cos when he got Mick Jagger to do the score for Invocation of My Demon Brother, Jagger did so on a Moog synthesiser that the Rolling Stones had bought for him to experiment with but which he had no idea how to use (as you can hear from the results); this thing made a couple of other film appearances (in Performance and some Italian film where Keith footles about it with a bit), then eventually it somehow ended up in the hands of Tangerine Dream and revolutionised their sound.
I still remember being in Waterfront Records back around the late 90s, maybe early oughts, and that day Frank was playing a vinyl copy of the album; it struck me then as one of the most extraordinary things I’d ever heard, the way this sound just seemed to move through dimensions of space, and it still is extraordinary after all these decades.. kind of like Oxygène, it must’ve sounded like the absolute future when it came out and in some ways it still does. I have days when I think it might be the best record ever made.
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