When Tangerine Dream’s Peter Baumann decided to make a cash-in disco record, the result was this odd combo of breathy erotica, high camp and sheer awfulness
In 1977, the 24-year-old German composer and songwriter Peter Baumann left Tangerine Dream, the band he’d joined aged 18, for the third and final time. There had been a solo album in 1976 and there would be another in 1979, but in that very moment the question remained: what to do next? And how exactly would he pay for the upkeep of his Paragon Studio in Berlin? Something needed to be done to generate some fast income and, inspired by Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder’s I Feel Love the answer became clear: Baumann and his collaborator, musician and ethnomusicologist Hans Brandeis, would make a cash-in disco record.
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by Rob Fitzpatrick via Electronic music | The Guardian
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