Tangerine Dream to perform in Israel
Iconic German band to give concert in Tel Aviv's Charles Bronfman Auditorium on May 18. Band founder tells Ynet it is no small thing to play in Israel as German band after 'the most horrific crime initiated by the regime of Germany.'
The star of the show will always be the music itself. That is what Edgar Froese wants to demonstrate the audience. "People who attend a Tangerine Dream concert will see and hear servants to the music at work," stresses Froese, head of the German electronic music band.
The band Tangerine Dream will play the first time in Israel in a few weeks and see the beautiful country, Froese says. On May 18th the concert will take place in Tel Aviv at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium.
For Froese, it is no small thing to play in Israel as part of a German band, after "the most horrific crime which had been initiated by the regime of Germany from 1933 to 1945". He hopes "that the younger people in Israel are open-minded and tolerant against a different and new generation born in Germany,” but he also understands "those Israelis who can’t forgive and can’t forget, have unfortunately many reasons for such reactions."
Froese founded Tangerine Dream in 1967. Since then, the band has enjoyed several world tours and released more than 150 albums. In the seventies, Tangerine Dream was – besides the legendary Kraftwerk – one of the most important electronic bands in the world. They claim the average age of their fans is between 35 and 50 years old, and they plan to perform about 30 concerts worldwide this year.
Reaching millions of people around the globe with a very individual style of music far removed from the more mainstream rock is their greatest achievement, Froese says. The band founder, who turns 70 in June, is the only member who has stayed constantly in the group. After several shake-ups, the band now consists of five members. "This changes from time to time and depends on the composition", Froese says.
He creates new music that tries to transform the very best of the past into a futuristic perspective. "A lot of our new ideas are driven by high-end technology, often written as software programs and used for handling sounds and rhythm patterns", Froese explains.
Edgar Froese is an old stager when it comes to electronic music. He says that nowadays, electronic music is clearly more for entertainment and dancing. But Tangerine Dream, he underlines, doesn't mainly work for the dance floor: "The era of pure sampled sounds and the loop type of drum and bass performances is not really the center point of my musical world."
