Stuntman (Edgar Froese album)

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Stuntman
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ReleasedSeptember 1979,
April 2005 (reissue)
RecordedSummer 1979
StudioAmber Studio, Berlin
Genre Electronic
Length43:52
Label Virgin
Producer Edgar Froese
Edgar Froese chronology
Ages
(1978)
Stuntman
(1979)
Kamikaze 1989
(1982)
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Stuntman is the fifth solo album released by Tangerine Dream leader Edgar Froese, in 1979. [1]

Froese later remixed the album and released it with a new cover. [2]

The album utilizes much the same instruments and equipment heard on Froese's previous albums; electric guitar, Moog Synthesizer (including sequencer), Mellotron, PPG 340/360, and other keyboards. On this release there are six tracks (originally three to each side of an LP) instead of two side-long tracks as found on, for example, his album Epsilon in Malaysian Pale (1975).[ citation needed ]

Track listing

All tracks written, performed and produced by Edgar Froese

No.TitleLength
1."Stuntman"4:13
2."It Would Be Like Samoa"10:40
3."Detroit Snackbar Dreamer"6:26
4."Drunken Mozart in the Desert"9:53
5."A Dali-Esque Sleep Fuse"8:26
6."Scarlet Score For Mescalero"4:14

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