| STAR'S END Update - 24 May 2026 | ||||||
 
Everything has a beginning. For Spacemusic it was the 1974 release of Phaedra (37:33). Presenting ideas so far outside normal experience a new way of listening had to be established in order to fully appreciate its four innovative realizations. As our minds grasped and strained to receive such wonder the more sensitive among us still contemplate how this miracle of electricity could ever have been made by human hand. Free from the corruptions of tradition Phaedra astounded listeners with its immense scale and otherworldly perspective. The question of what counted as EM became newly charged, as the resulting sparks illuminated a time yet to come.
After several early releases of surreal sound collage Tangerine Dream produced the groundbreaking Phaedra. Art belongs to the subconscious, and this work did so attempt to portray sonically the most enigmatic region of the brain. Seeming like a sound structure the listener was passing through, meeting this music at its initial release felt like an encounter with something too immense or powerful for our reasoning to comprehend. Unable to look to the world for answers, we remain quietly stunned.
While the timbre and tone of Phaedra were stirring in and of themselves, they were also part of a greater concept. In their search for meaning
Today there is a nostalgia for the decade of discovery specific to the 1970s - where every day it seemed new visions and perspectives were informing
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