Within the 60s Edgar Froese was once making tune underneath the identify The Ones, however an early come across with experimental tune left him in search of a brand new name. In 2011 the overdue electronica pioneer informed Prog how the identify Tangerine Dream took place – and we determined to consider this actual clarification.
The foundation of the identify Tangerine Dream has lengthy been shrouded in thriller. That’s as a result of founder Edgar Froese would intentionally misinform folks.
“It was once a kind of questions everybody had, and I were given bored of answering it at all times,” he explains. ‘So I started to invent causes, simply to misdirect everybody. I’d say the very first thing which got here into my head. I even urged it was once a yoghurt at one time!”
So the place does the reality lie? It begins when Froese first went to West Berlin to check artwork within the mid-60s. On the time he had an R&B band known as The Ones, however they have been briefly disbanded as he turned into more and more fascinated about experimental and surreal tune. He sought after a reputation that matched that form of method.
“I remembered a line from the Beatles music Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” Froese explains. “It went: ‘tangerine bushes and marmalade skies’ – and that’s in truth the place the identify got here from. I didn’t assume Marmalade Skies was once a excellent one, however the thought of tangerine bushes caught.”
I’ve learn we couldn’t perceive what the Beatles have been making a song about… this isn’t what took place
After all, that’s no longer the identify he in the end settled on. How did ‘bushes’ develop into ‘dream?’ One long-circulating concept is that he misheard the lyric and concept that the road was once in fact a few tangerine dream. “That’s no longer true in any respect,” says Froese. “I’ve learn in numerous other resources that our English wasn’t excellent and we couldn’t perceive the theory the Beatles have been making a song about, so we simply concept the theory of a tangerine dream fitted higher. This isn’t what took place.”
In truth – and this would possibly marvel a large number of folks – it was once a shaggy dog story. And if the considered Germans appearing a way of humour is quite stunning, then get ready to be… neatly, mildly gobsmacked.
“The German for tree is ‘traum,’ and the German for dream is ‘baum,’” Froese says. “The ones two phrases sound so identical that I believed, ‘Neatly, why no longer exchange one for the opposite?’ I assume it’s essential to say it was once a surrealist shaggy dog story, and as we have been closely into surrealism on the time – Salvador Dalí was once a big affect – it gave the impression of easy methods to cross. So, tangerine bushes turned into tangerine dream, and we had a reputation.”
There’s another component to the method: “We can have used the plural,” Froese says, “however the singular urged we have been all pulling in the similar course – unified by way of one dream. It’s a case of throughout the absurd continuously lies what’s artistically conceivable.”
