Tangerine Dream - Logos: Live At The Dominion, London (1982)

As promised last week, some more live TD - this time taken from a concert in London on 6 November 1982.  By this point, Peter Baumann was gone, and his replacement, Johannes Schmoelling, well integrated into the group.  The TD sound had updated from the long-form improvisations of the 70s into something much sleeker and polished, but Logos is still a cracking live set to listen to. 

For release, the material from the concert that already appeared on studio albums was snipped out, leaving just the great little encore-finale (which always makes me think more of Jean-Michel Jarre than TD) and the new 'Logos' suite, with its sections named by colours - respectively, Cyan, Velvet (not quite a colour, but whatever), Red, Blue, Black, Green and Yellow, bookended by an intro & coda.

These contrasting sections offer plenty of variety across the suite's 45 minute duration: highlights for me include the dark ambience of Intro, Cyan and Black; the longest stretch (Red), from about 12-20 minutes into the piece, which looks forward to Hyperborea, and the uptempo section towards the end (Yellow), its rhythms more suited to the dancefloor than the stoner futon.

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