Voiceprint Records will release “Madcap’s Flaming Duty” by Tangerine Dream on April 2. The album by the venerable German electronic band pays tribute to Syd Barrett, a co-founder of Pink Floyd, who died last summer.
The album was recorded in Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany, in October 2006. It features Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, Thorsten Quaeschning, Chris Hausl, Bernhard Beibl, Linda Spa, Gynt Beator, Thomas Beator and Iris Camaa.
Lyrics for the project were adapted from English and American literature from the 17th and 18th centuries, by writers such as Emerson, Whitman, Blake and Shelley.
Barrett died in his Cambridgeshire home Friday, July 7, 2006. He was 60.
