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Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
 with Edgar Froese
Edgar Froese

Edgar Wilmar Froese is a Germany artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W....
 and Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke

Christopher Franke is a musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards andsynthesizer as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins....
 in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976. Shortly thereafter, in 1977, he left the band and started his own solo career.

ng the 1980s, he founded a record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, Private Music
Private Music

Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984 in music by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream...
, specializing in instrumental music in a style popularly referred to as New Age
New Age music

New Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and Reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated wit...
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Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
 with Edgar Froese
Edgar Froese

Edgar Wilmar Froese is a Germany artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for co-founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W....
 and Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke

Christopher Franke is a musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards andsynthesizer as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins....
 in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976. Shortly thereafter, in 1977, he left the band and started his own solo career.

Background

During the 1980s, he founded a record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, Private Music
Private Music

Private Music is an American record company founded in 1984 in music by experimental musician Peter Baumann, as a home for instrumental music. Baumann's previous solo career included the dance hit, "Strangers in the Night." Initially signing such artists as Yanni, Suzanne Ciani, Patrick O'Hearn and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream...
, specializing in instrumental music in a style popularly referred to as New Age
New Age music

New Age music is peaceful music of various styles, which is intended to create inspiration, relaxation, and positive feelings, often used by listeners for yoga, massage, inspiration, relaxation, meditation, and Reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments often associated wit...
. Artists signed to the label included Yanni
Yanni

Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
, Patrick O'Hearn
Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist....
, Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman

Jerry Goodman is an American violin best known for playing electrically amplified violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra....
, Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pioneer in electronic music and one of the few women to blaze a trail in the genre. She received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her Master of Arts in music in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley where she met and was influenced by the idiosyncratic synthesizer designer...
, and former bandmates Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
. The label was eventually sold to Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an Independent record label, founded in 1976 in music by guitarist and carpenter William Ackerman and his then-wife Anne Robinson....
' parent company, BMG
BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
, who continue to distribute some of the back catalogue of its more successful artists. Baumann has since kept a low profile from the music business.

Discography


Albums

  • Romance '76 (1976) (LP)
  • Trans Harmonic Nights (1979) (LP)
  • Repeat Repeat (1981) (LP)
  • Strangers In The Night (1983) (LP)
  • Phase by Phase: A Retrospective '76 - '81 (1996) (CD)


EP

  • Bicentennial Present (7" single) (1976)
  • Biking Up The Strand (7" single) (1979)
  • Realtimes (7" single) (1981)
  • Daytime Logic (Extended Dance Mix) (12" single) (1981)


Faux Baumanns

An album from 1978 named Baumann / Koek is sometimes believed to be a Peter Baumann collaboration, as the album is German, the music is in a style similar to early 1970s Tangerine Dream and contains a track called TD-Mem. Despite all this the album was actually composed by two musicians called Wolfgang Baumann and Eta Koek, and is not connected with Peter Baumann in any way.

In 2001, a musician/technician called Peter Baumann was credited with audio engineering
Audio engineering

Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. The field draws on many disciplines, including electrical engineering, acoustics, psychoacoustics, and music....
 work on Landing
Landing (band)

Landing is an indie rock outfit from Connecticut, USA. Terms used to describe the music created by Aaron Snow and Adrienne Snow include Ambient music, shoegaze, slowcore, and space rock....
's EP Oceanless, and has since become a group member, rounding out the quintet for 2005's Brocade. However this is a different, much younger and unrelated Peter Baumann.

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