Post Description

A  promotional CD by Tangerine Dream, a business idea to produce a series of story-telling discs in a similar vein to Rumplestiltskin. The series was never pursued and the promotional CDs are the only evidence left of that initiative. Very rare item.


Jim & Pablo
Der Meteor
Originalmusik Tangerine Dream

- Studio, released November 1997 -

Cover
   

CD release Germany 1997
Design: Gisela Kloetzer
   
Tracks
   
  
1. Haus der Welt I 2:24
2. Ein Traum 2:55
3. Am Hafen 3:11
4. Unheimliches passiert 5:16
5. Der Professor 3:00
6. Das Buch Midrad 4:22
7. In der Bibliothek 6:08
8. Der Heliograph 2:28
9. Die Helden der Stadt 5:04
10. Im Labor 1:46
11. Haus der Welt II 6:25
Total running time 42:59
   
Details
   
 
Recording date 1997
Recording site(s) Eastgate Studios (Vienna)
Recording engineer(s) Daniel Dafoe
Composer(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
Musician(s) Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese
   
Notes
   Der Meteor was the first and only release of ten scheduled science fiction audio novels for children in German language. The CDs had been issued without a catalog number, while official distribution had been postponed for later, as well as English and CD-ROM versions. Obviously, the whole project has been cancelled, as none of the planned other releases ever saw the light of day. Below is a list of the planned releases according to the booklet (with additional translations in English):
 
   

Das Haus der Welt (The House of the World)
    CD1: Der Meteor (The Meteor)
    CD2: Der Kristallspiegel (The Crystal Mirror)
    CD3: Das Verborgene Land (The Concealed Land)
Das Buch der Könige (The Book of the Kings)
    CD4: Die Eiserne Maske (The Iron Mask)
    CD5: Die Titanic (The Titanic)
    CD6: Atlantis (Atlantis)
    CD7: Im Land der Pharaonen (In the Land of the Pharaons)
    CD8: Das Große Labyrinth (The Great Labyrinth)
    CD9: Im Feuer The Sonne (In the Sun's Fire)
    CD10: Der Eisplanet Krypton (Krypton, the Ice Planet)

 
   
The story on this CD reports how Jim and Pablo destroy a meteor which causes strange attitudes of men and animals. The text was written by TD's computer assistant Peter Liendl; the band provided short music clips, most of them in the '90s style. The idea resulted from the Rumpelstiltskin project in 1992, TD reported. Unlike that release, Der Meteor contains no pure music tracks; the TD material is only used as background or short intermediate music.
   
Releases
   
 
Germany 

1997: TDI

Erg zeldzaam item. Dit is een gecancelled zakelijk project, waar Tangerine dream geen vervolg aan heeft gegeven.  Het is een beetje in de stijl van Rumpelstiltskin en bedoeld voor kinderen.(luisterboek) en zoals je boven kunt lezen,waren er heel wat van deze luisterboeken gepland.
Waarschijnlijk niet echt boeiend voor de meeste liefhebbers van EM, maar hoort natuurlijk wel thuis in je TD verzameling, als je echt alles van ze wil hebben.

Beste groet van de Nachtuil.