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Madcap's Flaming Duty
Madcap's Flaming Duty is a 2007 album by Tangerine Dream. It is their ninety-eighth album. 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".
Personnel.
- Tangerine Dream
- Edgar Froese - keyboards, guitars, drum programming, harmonica
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" being a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Locksley Hall". Six years later, the album "Tyger" featured poems from William Blake set to music; and around the turn of the millennium, Edgar Froese started working on a musical trilogy based on Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", completed in 2006. Most recently, the 2007 album "Madcap's Flaming Duty" features more poems set to music, some again from Blake but also e.g. Walt Whitman.
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