Jeanne D'arc Audio CD – CD, July 31, 2009

Just listened to this CD that I never knew existed and it has quickly become one of my favorites. I love the new version of TD. I am not a big fan of the early 70's and 80's period. I think Jerome was an asset and am sorry he is not with the band any longer. However they have carried on without him and I believe this was the last CD he was on and it is a keeper. It is just as good as Mars Polaris and the 2 CD set titled Tan-Go. Very upbeat, ambient sounds that make you feel like you are travelling to a peaceful place. I love the fresh sound and am very please that I found this CD. If you like TD with a nice punchy sound that has layers of other instruments and sounds this is the one to get!

I find that most music done by Tangerine Dream endears itself after listening to it several times; I admit bias from the get-go. I had expected it to be more somber and hymn-like. It sounds modern for a medieval setting, however, music transcends time so it reflects the myth that has grown about a peasant girl, her vision and accomplishments.Jeanne D'Arc will reveal its layers as it is played and replayed; The Seven Letters of Tibet achieved endearment immediately; Jeanne D'Arc will take longer to appreciate--the quality is there.

I am pleasantly surprised with this CD, it has some really good music that I had heard somewhere else, perhaps a concert, that I had never heard again, but here it is. I would say I like about half of it really well and the other half is just OK. I would buy it again.

Tangerine Dream records can be a crapshoot. Sometimes it can be superb collection of compositions, other times it can be a bunch of noise. This is one of the superb ones.

I've been a long time fan of Tangerine Dream.This album is what I have come to expect of them.

I like history, I like Joan of Arc, I like movie by Luc Besson about Joan, and I like Tangerine Dream.So I bought this album.I prefer Tangerine Dream of Froese-Franke-Haslinger line-up (Le Parc, Underwater Sunlight). And I think that the best album by new Tangerine Dream (Froese, Father and Son) is "Goblin`s Club" (1996).Here they are working with collaborators: co-author Thorsten Quaeschning (keyboards, drums), Linda Spa (sax, flute - she played also on "Goblin`s Club" - it was also a reason to buy this album for me), Iris Camaa (she sang on "Dante project" albums) - percussion. So as usual we hear familiar rhythmic "bubbling sequences" but live drums, percussion, saxophone, flute give to the record touches of beauty and of live performance - and so as a result we have the music with multi-level polyphonic 3D feeling of the world created by Tangerine Dream. I agree with the prevoius reviewers - the tracks "Le Combat du Sang", "Le Combat des Epees" and solemn final "La Liberation" are the most close to our favorite TD dynamic sound. And because these tracks are quite long soundclips here wouldn`t give you right impression of them.I really missed guitar by Edgar Froese and something authentic medieval - well, Enigma-like Gregorian chants samples:) Whitout it this album sounds as epic of some fantasy Joan of Arc in the space. Well, I expected less meditative and more dramatic tracks, and I missed the hit - a melody to remember, something like "Song of the Whale" on "Underwater Sunlight" or "Towards the Evening Star", "Lamb With Radar Eyes" from "Goblin`s Club"...So it is not the best album by Froese`s TD - I think that "Goblin`s Club" still their best (I`m not talking of their Dante project - it is very special music), but "Jeanne" is among their most strongest efforts in the last 10 years, and one of the most interesting albums of electronic music of 2005-2006.If you are a fan of Joan of Arc - try also album "Destination" by German band ELOY with the impressive prog-rock Rick Wakemanesque final epic song about this lady.Also I could recommend you solo albums by former TD members:Christopher Franke "The Celestine Prophesy" (1996) - big budget New Age style record performed with Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, choruses and ethnic instruments (reminds "The Conquest of Paradise" by Vangelis), his very impressive live CD "The London Concert" (1992; close to classic TD sound) and more ethnic and more dynamic (in the same time ambiental and agressive) music with many soundsamples - Paul Haslinger "World Without Rules". It is really interesting!

This one has a twist. I think you'll like it

It's not a cd of remixes or a concert cd or a soundtrack to some obscure film(has anyone actually seen Mota Atma?)and it doesn't have vocals which turn off most diehard TD fans(though I still think Purgatorio is underrated.)but what it does have is some of coolest Tangerine Dream music in years.Aurally diverse and great blending of keyboards with Linda Spa's saxophone,track 2 La Joie is an exhilerating standout.Featuring their best compositions of the 21st century so far .After 36 years of ups and downs it's a real joy to hear Tangerine Dream in top form again.A musthave for TD fans(no,nobody paid me to say that it's really true!)