Wavelength (soundtrack)
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Wavelength is a soundtrack album by the German band Tangerine Dream
for the film Wavelength
starring Robert Carradine
, Cherie Currie
and Keenan Wynn
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Many of the tracks are remixes from other albums:
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German 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...
for the film Wavelength
Wavelength (1983 film)
Wavelength is a low-budget, independent science fiction film written and directed by Mike Gray and starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.The story involves a young couple who discover child-like aliens being held by the U.S...
starring Robert Carradine
Robert Carradine
Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his older brother David's Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys opposite Roscoe Lee Browne and...
, Cherie Currie
Cherie Currie
Cherie Currie is an American singer, actress and chainsaw artist. Currie was the lead vocalist of The Runaways, a hard rock band from Los Angeles in the mid-to-late 1970s.-Life and career:...
and Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade, and though he rarely had a lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and TV parts....
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Personnel
- Edgar FroeseEdgar FroeseEdgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for 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. Froese".Froese...
– keyboards, electronic equipment, guitar - Christopher FrankeChristopher FrankeChristopher Franke is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1988 he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its...
– synthesizers, electronic equipment, electronic percussion - Johannes Schmoelling – keyboards, electronic equipment
Track listings
- Alien Voices – 0:16
- Wavelength Main Title – 1:54
- Desert Drive – 2:00
- Mojave End Title – 3:59
- Healing – 2:23
- Breakout – 1:09
- Alien Goodbyes – 1:50
- Spaceship – 2:18
- Church Theme – 3:41
- Sunset Drive – 3:23
- Airshaft – 3:10
- Alley Walk – 2:55
- Cyro Lab – 2:13
- Running Through The Hills – 1:30
- Campfire Theme – 1:23
- Mojave End Title Reprise – 3:51
Many of the tracks are remixes from other albums:
- "Desert Drive" and "Spaceship" are remixed excerpts from "Quichotte, Part One" from QuichottePergamon (album)Remixed excerpts from "Quichotte, Part One" were used in the soundtrack for Wavelength. The piano solo from Part One has been released on other albums as "Pergamon " and re-recorded as "Pergamon Sphere".-Personnel:...
. - "Healing is a slightly remixed excerpt of "Tangram Set One" from TangramTangram (album)-Personnel:Musical* Edgar Froese — keyboards, guitar* Christopher Franke — keyboards, electronic percussions* Johannes Schmoelling - keyboardsTechnical* Eduard Meyer - mixing engineer, Hansa Studios Berlin...
- "Church Theme" is a remix of "Silver Scale"; a song that was performed live during European tours in 1980 and 1981, but not released by that name until 1994 on Tangents.
- "Sunset Drive" is a remix of "Remote Viewing" from ExitExit (Tangerine Dream album)Exit is an electronic music album released in 1981 by the German group Tangerine Dream. The first track features an uncredited female voice chanting, in Russian, the names of the continents of the world and pleading to end the threat of "limited" nuclear war, which was a potential danger facing the...
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