Tangerine Dream - Live at Place des Arts, Montreal April 10, 1977 [3LP Red & White]

Recorded in Montreal in 1977 at the height of their sequencer-driven golden age, this concert captures Tangerine Dream in full flight across three red and white vinyl LPs.

The classic trio of Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and Peter Baumann was touring North America for the first time, the same run that produced the Encore live album, and Baumann would leave soon after. Broadcast live on Montreal radio station CHOM-FM, the show has circulated among devoted fans for years, and this 2025 release marks its first appearance on vinyl, remastered with liner notes by Tangerine Dream historian Wouter Bessels.

The set unfolds as six side-long pieces, titled simply Part 1 through Part 6, and there is no sense of a band running through the hits. Pulsing sequencer patterns lock into hypnotic grooves, Mellotron choirs swell and fade, and long improvised passages drift from cosmic stillness into propulsive, almost rock-like surges.

For anyone drawn to the Rubycon and Stratosfear era, this is a vivid snapshot of electronic music being invented in real time on a concert stage, with all the risk and thrill that implies.

Each disc carries its own red and white finish, and the whole set makes a striking archival centrepiece for a krautrock or electronic collection.