The 1985 album Le Parc was the last official studio release with Johannes Schmoelling, who left Tangerine Dream in October 1985. In another way, too, Le Parc was a turning point in the musical history of Tangerine Dream: the much-beloved atmospheric or ‘spacey’ 20-minute long epics had gone in favour of nine quite short titles, the longest clocking in at barely over six minutes. Edgar Froese in an interview with Jonathan Miller: “Tangerine Dream is like breathing — the first 12 or 13 years was breathing out and the other decade is breathing in. The simple concept is the inside and outside world. It’s more complicated if you go into it, but breathing in means that by the natural aspect of breathing, it’s inside and not spacey. It’s not macrocosm, it’s microcosm.”
Edgar Froese has been quoted as saying, “I look at our compositions as travel music, adventure music, much of which has been inspired by the places we’ve visited over the years.” And in fact, Le Parc was inspired by nine parks and gardens around the world. On this album the TD trio was supported by three guest musicians — including Clare Torry, who also sang on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon back in 1973.
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