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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