Tangerine Dream founder and music pioneer
extraordinaire Edgar Froese passed away on January 20th 2015. He
left behinds legions of fans as well as an enormous back catalog of songs.
Electronic music conveyor Mark Jenkins, who
performed with members of the Krautrock outfits CAN and ex- members of
Tangerine Dream, recorded a tribute album titled: “Change Of Cosmic Address”,
together with his brother Chris, the latter also being responsible for the
album artwork.
The brothers are also performing a tribute
concert for Edgar Froese in London on April 11th, where they perform
two live sets with new material in the style of the late Edgar Froese.
POEM’s Thomas Janak talked to Mark about the upcoming
concert, the tribute album, hardware synthesizers, changes in music over the
decades and more.
