Music

Encore

Double-Live-Album from the band's 77 USA-Tour which included places as the Greek Theatre in L.A. and the Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Encore was the first live show supported by laser and also the last record with Peter Baumann as a member of TD.

"There's a piece on here, Monolight, which shows our classical leanings. We tend to listen to classical music, and feel very close to Bach because of the counterpoint, the use of sequences and the masterpieces he wrote in terms of basslines."
– Edgar Froese

Description

Status	Live Album
Release date	1977
All Music by	Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke, Peter Baumann

Tracklist

	01.	Cherokee Lane
	02.	Monolight
	03.	Coldwater Canyon
	04.	Desert Dream
Depending upon the medium, the indicated tracklist will vary in certain details.

Is live also live when it is not “now” does live remain ?

Answered by Edgar Froese

Good advertising slogan. In many old fotos and in films you can see that all three band members are having a very slow Revox tape machine. Of course, you might come to the idea that the music you can hear there comes from the sound storage media. The truth is very simple: At the beginning of the seventies, we had already charged an engineer from Berlin with transforming the motor control unit of the ribbon draft into a variably adjustable speed mechanism. So it became possible to variably duplicate the notes of a sequencer in triplets or other rhythmic parameters with the record and play button of the tape machine. When three synchronizing sequencers generated rhythmic patterns in this way, we had already reached the exact ideas of an earlier polyrhythmic sound landscape. So a tape machine was transformed into an echo machine – this had nothing to do with backup tapes. Today you can reach the same result in five minute’s time with a commercially available software sequencer – provided that you know what you want to produce.