Madcap's Flaming Duty | ||||
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Released | April 2007 | |||
Recorded | October 2006 | |||
Genre | Electronic, [1] ambient, [2] new-age [3] | |||
Length | 73:43 | |||
Label | Eastgate | |||
Producer | Edgar Froese | |||
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AllMusic | (not rated) [1] |
PopMatters | positive [2] |
Sputnikmusic | 4/5 [3] |
Madcap's Flaming Duty is the ninety-eighth release and twenty-seventh major studio album by Tangerine Dream. [4] Along with Cyclone (1978) and Tyger (1987) it is one of the few Tangerine Dream releases to feature vocals. The album is a tribute to Syd Barrett who died in 2006; the title references Barrett's album The Madcap Laughs . This is the first album to feature Bernhard Beibl who would remain a member until 2014.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Astrophel and Stella" (16th century English poetry) | Music by Froese Froese, Lyrics by Sir Philip Sidney | 7:21 |
2. | "Shape my Sin" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Christian Torsa | 4:50 |
3. | "The Blessed Damozel" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Dante G. Rossetti | 5:16 |
4. | "Divorce" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Thomas Stanley | 4:46 |
5. | "Dream of Death" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Edmund C. Stedman | 7:46 |
6. | "Hear the Voice" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake | 5:08 |
7. | "Lake of Pontchartrain" (Traditional Irish) | Music and Lyrics 'Irish Traditional', Arranged by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning | 7:23 |
8. | "Mad Song" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake | 5:08 |
9. | "One Hour of Madness" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Walt Whitman | 8:29 |
10. | "Man" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by George Herbert | 4:47 |
11. | "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" | Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Percy B. Shelley | 6:24 |
12. | "Solution to all Problems" | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 6:24 |
13. | "The Burning Babe's Reality Song" (bonus track) | Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Robert Southwell | 5:33 |
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