Thanks
Armin and Andreas-Michael,
Guess that answers my question :-)
Though maybe we should ask why she stopped doing them given some of the umm
poor efforts in recent times :-)
Marc
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From: "amon_dueuel_2" <andreas-***@t-online.de>
To: <***@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:26 PM
Subject: [tadream] Re: Monique Froese
Hallo Marc,
Armin was faster than me! Nevertheless read my translation of the
interview.
Andreas-Michael
Displayed quotation:
"It takes ages until the group accepts an album cover." Monika Froese
Introduction:
Since years Monika Froese, the wife of Edgar Froese, takes the
photographs for the album covers of Tangerine Dream. A awkward task
considering that a picture, a photograph, joins the listener in a
mood that is to be experienced not until the music. Is there quarrel
sometimes?
Monika: No quarrel, but, say, differences have been with the
recent "Ricochet". It's this one (she takes the album from a pile of
albums). There we put such sort of stereo jacks that the group uses
at their equipment in different formations onto a mirror and took
photographs. The group said "well, that looks much too aggressive,
that looks like cannonballs".
We were on a tour in France. We had free time, and among other
photographs I took this one (the camera shows the cover of
Ricochet). Peter saw it and said "we rather take this one, this fits
our music better than those plugs".
Interviewer: The picture of Ricochet: Peter is not here, but when
you say that it fits our music more: There are torn off trees, it's
a bit as if the big nuclear bomb has already been dropped. I mean,
it doesn't look nice.
Monika: You don't like it (she laughs)?
Interviewer: Well, I mean, not nice in an esthetic sense. It's a
very destroyed scenery.
Monika: (ernest) The scenery wasn't destroyed at all. There was a
huge stage/dune [comment: the German word is either Bühne (stage)
or
Düne (dune)] near the ocean, and then this sunset. And "Ricochet"
means impact. In tennis, for example, it's the impact of the ball.
The moment when the ball hits the ground and bounces off. That's the
same in the French language and in the English language. And due to
the optical impact of the sun at the tree the name "Ricochet" has
been choosen.
Interviewer: Relatively seldom the group is shown onto the covers.
Monika: Yes, that's right.
Interviewer: Why?
Monika: They did it intentionally because they don't like this sort
of stardom. It's not their thing to emphasize a person. They made an
exception with "Ricochet", however. They have choosen pictures that
I took of them and have put them onto the cover.
Interviewer: Is it difficult to agree with them?
Monika: What is concerning their personal photos it is very
difficult.
Interviewer: Because they are vain or what?
Monika: Yes. Vain, very vain. (she laughs)
Post by Armin TheissenShe is interviewed and also appears elsewhere in the TV documentary
'Signale aus der Schwaebischen Strasse'.
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