“Phaedra is of the greatest importance,” says Edgar Froese’s widow, Bianca Froese-Acquaye. “It was a groundbreaking album in every respect: it opened up a completely new sound experience for the listeners, broke old listening habits, heralded a new musical genre and opened the door to a world career.”
The artist, author and painter, who was married to Tangerine Dream’s founder for 13 years until his death in 2015, and now manages the current incarnation of the band, also co-authored Edgar’s comprehensive 2017 autobiography, Force Majeure. She isn’t surprised that Phaedra’s popularity has endured for so long.
It marked, she says, “a listening experience of the extraterrestrial kind. And even today, the music with its sequences, rhythms and melodies sounds so incredibly unique and timeless that it is almost impossible to…
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