Tangerine Dream – Encore

This pressing, if you can find a clean copy, is mastered for vinyl by George Piros...it is my favorite over either the UK or German 1st pressings. While they may be lower noise, the soundstage and dynamics on the US version are wonderful. Problem is finding a really quiet copy, but if you are lucky, it's a treat.

German reprint very good sound quality,
surprising dynamics, without craks, which is great for a decades-old version

I confirm : the sound quality of this 1995 edition is not good at all.
I compared this SBM (what a joke) remaster with a first edition CD (1985 virgin).
The 1985 CD have much more bass and largest stereo image.
It's a shame for the sound engineers involved in the 1995 edition.

Note that you will never ever find a copy playing without noise. These Sonopress pressings are always playing with some crackling, even when NM or new. Love it or leave it.

Tangerine dream decide to record a live album in the USA...bad idea!
Whooping and whistling from the crowd all the way through ruin a ambient experience that would have been.

So I have a C-Side mispress with these songs: C1 Coconut Island/C2 Turpentine/C3 House On The Hill/C4 Knocking On Heavens Door

I have the Side C mispress.
Side C contains the Kevin Coyne songs listed above as B1, B2 and B3; therefore for me they are C1, C2 and C3 with Side B being 'Monolight' as it should be.

I’ll be “brief”. I attended one show on this tour. Not only that, I’m. a Tangerine Dream “nut”, as I have many audience tapes and two radio broadcasts from this 1977 tour (and now they are all posted on YouTube). On the tour, like all their others, the show is presented in two halves, with an intermission between the two. On this tour the first half, Side 1 and 2 (the first 2 tracks on the CD) are mostly NOT improvised, as they are basically the same on all the dates I’ve heard from this tour. Side/track 1 might be, and side/track 2 definitely is, from Lisner Auditorium in Washington DC. The second half of the show is improvised, and IMO the best portion of the show. When I first heard this album I was very, very disappointed that sides/tracks 3 & 4, the 2nd half of the show, and its improvised portion, sounded nothing like what I heard in concert, and nothing like what I’ve heard from all the tapes of the other dates. Odds are that side3/track 3 is a studio recording. Side/track 4 definitely is a studio recording. It wouldn’t be until 2004 when an official release of the entire Washington DC show was released, as part of the “Bootleg Box Part 2” that the CD buying public, would get to hear the amazing second half of this show. A shame, because it is wonderful. The 3 TD members’ stacks of analog synths (and Edgar Froese’s piano and electric guitar), their face-melting volume lowered for your listening pleasure is a synth and TD fan’s dream (pun intended) come true. Regardless of my “complaints“ in regards to sides/tracks 3 & 4, “Encore” is still a great record of TD’s sound in 1977. Slowed down a bit from the heyday 1974-1975 years, but very, very brutal sounding, massive sounding synths and Mellotron. As far as sound quality - the best are the Japanese pressing of the vinyl, and the first pressing of the CD, I’ve heard the US, UK, and Japanese pressings, and they’re all better than the later CDs, which seem to lose some of the bass frequencies and overall sound a bit thinner.

Originally came out in October 1977. I'm not 100% sure of the came out date of this reissue. Black and silver labels seems to be used in 1978, so i supposed this release came out in 1978.

great music to just chill to. sit back and relax.