Phase By Phase The Virgin Albums

As a key member of Tangerine Dream, Peter Baumann’s contribution was felt on the classic albums released by Virgin Records issued between 1974 and 1976, Phaedra, Rubicon, Ricochet, and Stratosphere.

In 1976, he embarked on a solo career with his classic work Romance ‘76, recorded in July and August that year in Berlin and Munich. The result was a remarkable album that is now held in huge esteem by aficionados of German electronic music.

His next work as a solo artist was the equally remarkable and ground-breaking album Trans Harmonic Nights, recorded in Berlin between July 1978 and January 1979, a release which pre-empted and influenced the protagonists of synthesiser-based music that would burst forth in the 1980s.

His third and final album for Virgin Records was Repeat Repeat, which saw him adopt a more song-based approach to his writing, stylistically akin with the prevailing mood of the early 1980s. Recorded in New York and at Compass Point studios in Nassau in the Bahamas, Repeat Repeat was co-produced by Baumann and Robert Palmer.

Phase By Phase is the first time all of Peter Baumann’s solo works issued by Virgin Records have been gathered together in one collection.