Nice that you also like Franke's music very much. All the best!

Thank You.

I don't know what caused Franke to change his musical style after 1995. Perhaps only because it became necessary to compose the appropriate music for television series. The music here on the PCH album is perhaps similar to the London concert because it was composed at almost the same time. The piece "Purple Waves" makes a large part as a long version at the concert. So it is the live performance of the studio album Pacific Coast Highway. Nevertheless, as a fan you should not do without one of the two CD's. I don't know how much Chris Franke contributed to the album Le Parc. With Yellowstone Park one could think of the live tour 1977, because at the beginning of the piece Monolight the same background noise was produced which is to be heard then also again in the title Yellowstone Park. So Franke could be the "inventor" of it. The sound can also be heard in the 2nd track from the "Klemania" album.

@@theodorrand Now that you've mentioned it, another Franke signature sound is the synthesized bird call that is very prominent in the beginning of the White Eagle album and appears multiple times in subsequent TD pieces and even on the B5 soundtrack.

@@theodorrand Yellowstone Park sounds like a CF piece because of the melody and harmony, already used elsewhere in TD's catalog, but what really gives it away is the corny Japanese flute sample 😊

@@MarioVAmaya But that was the only piece of TD which contained the sound image. I personally found that good, the whole song was different, already because of the overlaid female voice in the melody. Only ENIGMA (Michael Cretu) made this sound world famous in 1990, which I would call electronic pan flute sound. Likewise CUSCO, a music project from Germany consisting of Michael Holm and Christian Schultze. They also used these instruments in the early 90s.

Hello! That's great that you were allowed into Mister Franke's recording studio. Too bad that you could not meet him, but better than nothing as they say. The CD with autograph you get but also not just like that? Many of the instruments are probably still from the good old days where he was still a member of Tangerine Dream. As far as I know, Franke also had custom-made instruments to develop even more sounds. Thanks for your great comment.

@@theodorrand The cd i received with Chris signature is the original,with many pics in the cover

@@stefanobarban1834 The CD with the small pictures on the cover is the official release. I only asked because of the autograph. You ordered your CD directly from Franke's office via phone?

@@theodorrand Sorry for my so long time answer !!! I wrote directly by letter to Berlin address

Nice to hear that you always stop by here. Many greetings from Germany.

The music of the members of Tangerine Dream who made solo records while they were still members or after leaving is not my favorite music either. I find only the members together as a group Tangerine Dream until 1987, the band was musically unique. As well as the music in general, so the pop music from the 1990s has changed in my opinion often to the negative, compared to the 80s. That's my perception, other people may not see it that way. I think if Franke, Froese and Schmoelling had still been making music together as Tangerine Dream in the 1990s or longer, the music would not have been the same.