Update: Tangerine Dream’s Dante Trilogy is to be released as La Divina Commedia, a deluxe six-disc hardback book, through Kscope on May 27. The trilogy features three albums recorded by the band between 2002 and 2006, inspired by mainman, the late Edgar Froese meeting painter and artist Bianca Froese-Acquaye, who he would marry, and by Dante Alighieri’s epic 14th century narrative poem The Divine Comedy.
The three albums are Inferno (2002), which was used as a modern soundtrack for the 1911 Italian silent film L’Inferno, Purgatorio (2004) itself used as a modern soundtrack for Giuseppe de Liguoro 1911 silent film of the same name, and 2006’s Paradiso.
Look at this introductory video.
Tangerine Dream presents La Divina Commedia, the new 6-disc deluxe hardback book set covering the trilogy of Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso in addition to a live concert DVD filmed at Castle Nideggen, Cologne in 2002. At the centre of the set is a book featuring extensive liner notes by Wouter Bessels, an essay by Bianca Froese-Acquaye and previously unseen photographs from Edgar’s private archives.
ngerine Dream: La Divina Commedia
Disc 1: Inferno
1. Before The Closing Of The Day
2. The Spirit Of Virgil
3. Minotaurae Hunt At Dawn
4. Those Ones Broke The First Word
5. Dante In Despair
6. Io Non Mori
7. Vidi Tre Facce
8. At The Deepest Point In Space
9. L`omperador Del Doloroso Regno
10. Voices In A Starless Night
11. Fear And Longing
12. Fallen For Death
13. Where All Light Went Silent
14. Charon, Il Barchere
15. La Grey De Los Almas Perdidas
16. Justice Of The Karma Law
17. As The Sun Moves Towards Heaven
18. Beatrice, L`ame Infinie
Disc 2: Purgatorio
1. Above The Great Dry Land
2. Chasing The Bad Seed
3. Slave To The Gods
4. Hope And Glory
5. Sun Son`s Seal (Part One)
6. Beyond All Suns
7. Sisiphus
8. All The Steps To Heaven
9. Mountain Of Destiny
Disc 3: Purgatorio
1. The Glowing Zodiac Wheel
2. Modern Cave Men
3. Death Of Medusa
4. Blinded By The World`s Desire
5. Sun Son`s Seal (Part Two)
6. Soulgate
7. Till The End Of Silence
8. Prison And Paradise
9. Spirit Spiral
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Disc 4: Paradiso
1. La Grande Spirale
2. Beyond Sodom And Gomorrah
3. La Ley De La Montana
4. A Cielo Della Luna
5. Mercury Sphere
6. L`Era Della Venere
7. Invisible Sun
Disc 5: Paradiso
1. Jupiter Lightning
2. La Forza Del Saturno
3. Star In Distance Glow
4. No More Birth, No More Death
5. Transformazione
6. Truth Beyond Thoughts
7. L`ultima Tromba d`Oro
8. Leaving
Disc 6: DVD
1. Before The Closing Of The Day
2. The Spirit Of Virgil
3. Minotaurae Hunt At Dawn
4. Those Once Broke The First Word
5. Dante In Despair
6. lo Non Mori
7. Vidi Tre Facce
8. At The Deepest Point In Space
9. L`Omperador Del Doloroso Regno
10. Voices In A Starless Night
11. Fear And Longing
12. Fallen For Death
13. Where All The Light Went Silent
14. Charon, Il Barchere
15. La Grey De Los Almas Perdidas
16. Justice Of The Karma Law
17. As The Sun Moves Towards Heaven
18. Beatrice, L`Ame Infinie
19. Rehearsal
20. Dressing Room
21. Waldtanz
22. Interviews