Peter Baumann
Actor · b. 1953 · Berlin, Germany
Peter Baumann (born 29 January 1953) is a German musician. He formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976. Shortly thereafter, in 1977, he left the band and started his own solo career. During the 1980s, he founded a record label, Private Music, specializing in instrumental music in a style popularly referred to as New Age. Artists signed to the label included Yanni, Patrick O'Hearn, Jerry Goodman, Suzanne Ciani, and former bandmates Tangerine Dream. The label was eventually sold to Windham Hill Records' parent company, BMG, who continue to distribute some of the back catalogue of its more successful artists.
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Movie7.0DocumentaryMusicThe amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant-garde, to the great post-industrial cities of the USA, where this genre of genres took over music stores, shady clubs and, eventually, the big stages.
Electronic Vibrations – Ein Sound verändert die Welt
Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
2022 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.
Movie10.0MusicDocumentaryA short concert film for television which blends edited footage from a 1975 Tangerine Dream concert with music from the group's "Ricochet" album released that same year.
Movie6.7DocumentaryExplores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.
A Life in Waves
2017 · 7 votes