Madcap's Flaming Duty

Madcap's Flaming Duty
Madcap's Flaming Duty
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released	April 2007
Recorded	October 2006
Genre	Electronic, ambient, new-age
Length	73:43
Label	Eastgate
Producer	Edgar Froese
Tangerine Dream chronology
Main studio albums chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	(not rated)^[1]
PopMatters	positive^[2]
Sputnikmusic	4/5^[3]

Madcap's Flaming Duty is the ninety-eighth release and twenty-seventh major studio album by Tangerine Dream.^[4] Along with Cyclone (1978) and Tyger (1987) it is one of the few Tangerine Dream releases to feature vocals. The album is a tribute to Syd Barrett who died in 2006; the title references Barrett's album The Madcap Laughs. This is the first album to feature Bernhard Beibl who would remain a member until 2014.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Astrophel and Stella" (16th century English poetry)	Music by Froese Froese, Lyrics by Sir Philip Sidney	7:21
2.	"Shape my Sin"	Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Christian Torsa	4:50
3.	"The Blessed Damozel"	Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Dante G. Rossetti	5:16
4.	"Divorce"	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Thomas Stanley	4:46
5.	"Dream of Death"	Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Edmund C. Stedman	7:46
6.	"Hear the Voice"	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake	5:08
7.	"Lake of Pontchartrain" (Traditional Irish)	Music and Lyrics 'Irish Traditional', Arranged by Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning	7:23
8.	"Mad Song"	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by William Blake	5:08
9.	"One Hour of Madness"	Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Walt Whitman	8:29
10.	"Man"	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by George Herbert	4:47
11.	"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"	Music by Thorsten Quaeschning, Lyrics by Percy B. Shelley	6:24
12.	"Solution to all Problems"	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Ralph Waldo Emerson	6:24
13.	"The Burning Babe's Reality Song" (bonus track)	Music by Edgar Froese, Lyrics by Robert Southwell	5:33

Personnel

Tangerine Dream

Edgar Froese – keyboards, guitars, drum programming, harmonica
Thorsten Quaeschning – keyboards, drum programming, vocals
Linda Spa – flute
Iris Camaa – percussion
Bernhard Beibl – guitars, violin, mandolin

Additional musicians

Chris Hausl – vocals
Gynt Beator – Irish bouzouki
Thomas Beator – Irish bouzouki

References

^ ^a ^b Madcap's Flaming Duty at AllMusic
^ ^a ^b Xia, Edward (24 May 2007). "Tangerine Dream: Madcaps Flaming Duty". PopMatters.
^ ^a ^b Fatali, Liberi. "Tangerine Dream: Madcap's Flaming Duty". Sputnikmusic.
^ Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Madcap's Flaming Duty". Voices in the Net.

[AllMusic-1] Madcap's Flaming Duty at AllMusic

[PopMatters-2] Xia, Edward (24 May 2007). "Tangerine Dream: Madcaps Flaming Duty". PopMatters.

[Sputnikmusic-3] Fatali, Liberi. "Tangerine Dream: Madcap's Flaming Duty". Sputnikmusic.

[VitN-4] Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Madcap's Flaming Duty". Voices in the Net.

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Partial recordings	Electronic Meditation Alpha Centauri Zeit Atem Phaedra Rubycon Ricochet Stratosfear Encore Cyclone Force Majeure Tangram Quichotte Exit White Eagle Logos Live Hyperborea Poland Le Parc Green Desert Underwater Sunlight Tyger Livemiles Optical Race Lily on the Beach Melrose Quinoa Rockoon 220 Volt Live Turn of the Tides Tyranny of Beauty The Dream Mixes Goblins' Club Tournado TimeSquare – Dream Mixes II Ambient Monkeys Valentine Wheels Sohoman Mars Polaris Soundmill Navigator Antique Dreams Inferno Purgatorio Jeanne d'Arc Phaedra 2005 Madcap's Flaming Duty Plays Tangerine Dream Under Cover – Chapter One The Island of the Fay Mala Kunia Quantum Key Quantum Gate
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