Madcap's Flaming Duty

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Madcap's Flaming Duty
Tangerine Dream - Madcap's Flaming Duty.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 2007
RecordedOctober 2006
Genre Electronic, [1] ambient, [2] new-age [3]
Length73:43
Label Eastgate
Producer Edgar Froese
Tangerine Dream chronology
Springtime in Nagasaki
(2007)
Madcap's Flaming Duty
(2007)
Summer in Nagasaki
(2007)
Main studio albums chronology
Jeanne d'Arc
(2005)
Madcap's Flaming Duty
(2007)
Under Cover
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic (not rated) [1]
PopMatters positive [2]
Sputnikmusic4/5 [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.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Astrophel and Stella" (16th century English poetry)Music by Froese Froese, Lyrics by Sir Philip Sidney7:21
2."Shape my Sin"Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Christian Torsa4:50
3."The Blessed Damozel"Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Dante G. Rossetti5:16
4."Divorce"Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Thomas Stanley4:46
5."Dream of Death"Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Edmund C. Stedman7:46
6."Hear the Voice"Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake5:08
7."Lake of Pontchartrain" (Traditional Irish)Music and Lyrics 'Irish Traditional', Arranged by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning7:23
8."Mad Song"Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake5:08
9."One Hour of Madness"Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Walt Whitman8:29
10."Man"Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by George Herbert4:47
11."Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Percy B. Shelley6:24
12."Solution to all Problems"Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Ralph Waldo Emerson6:24
13."The Burning Babe's Reality Song" (bonus track)Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Robert Southwell5:33

Personnel

Tangerine Dream

Additional musicians

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References

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  2. 1 2 Xia, Edward. "Tangerine Dream: Madcaps Flaming Duty". PopMatters.
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