 The landmark album performed live at London’s Barbican 50 years after it's original release.
Format: Album / Cat No: KSCOPE1280 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 30/01/2026
Track Listing: LP 1 - Side A: 1. Phaedra Suite Initial Applause (0:28) / 2. Sequent C, 2024 (4:25) / 3. Movements Of A Visionary, 2024 (9:01) / 4. Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares, 2024 (7:39)
LP 1 - Side B: 1. Hippolytos Session pt. 01 (2:51) / 2. Hippolytos Session pt. 02 (3:29) / 3. Hippolytos Session pt. 03 (3:35) / 4. Hippolytos Session pt. 04 (6:09) / 5. Hippolytos Session pt. 05 (5:08)
LP 2 - Side A: 1. Hippolytos Session pt. 06 (5:15) / 2. Hippolytos Session pt. 07 (7:03) / 3. Phaedra 2024 (5:56) / 4. Hippolytos Session pt. 08 (2:50)
LP 2 - Side B: 1. Happy Ending (5:22) / 2. Sorcerer Theme (5:04) / 3. You Are Always On Time (7:31) / 4. Dolphin Dance (5:04)
LP 3 - Side A: 1. Rare Bird (5:13) / 2. Continuum (7:11) / 3. Los Santos City Map (7:20) / 4. Logos (Velvet) (5:43)
LP 3 - Side B: 1. Portico (6:45) / 2. White Eagle (6:06) / 3. Raum (7:29) / 4. Phaedra 2022 (6:58)
More information: In 1974, Phaedra redefined the landscape of electronic music. What began as an experimental session at Richard Branson’s Manor Studios in Oxfordshire became a seismic event in modern sound. Using the Moog sequencer for the first time, Tangerine Dream - then comprised of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann - crafted an album brimming with innovation, mystery and discovery.
Half a century later, Tangerine Dream performed the landmark album at London’s Barbican, reimagining it for a new era.
50 Years of Phaedra: At The Barbican captures a transcendent live performance, in which the current line-up - Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, and Paul Frick - revisit the spirit of Phaedra with the very tools that Froese and his collaborators helped pioneer.
3 LP edition on black vinyl in gatefold sleeve with an 8-page booklet.
Part of Phaedra’s magic lay in its imperfections: the original sequences were never truly quantised, their timing drifting unpredictably through the Moog’s analogue circuitry. That subtle instability became part of its charm - a human pulse within the machine - yet it long left current bandleader Thorsten Quaeschning intrigued by what a fully realised version might reveal. Now, fifty years later, Tangerine Dream have revisited the work with the precision that technology once denied them. 50 Years of Phaedra: At the Barbican is the first time Phaedra has been performed fully quantised, each motif beautifully aligned with a crystalline precision previously unheard.
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