Tangerine Dream bring order into chaos and Jonathon Crompton maps out the coastline

Tangerine Dream were founded in West Berlin in 1967 by Edgar Froese, the band has had scores of lineup changes but is still going strong under the helm of Thorsten Quaeschning, who joined in 2005 - despite being younger than the band itself. Thorsten chats to Andy ahead of the band’s return to Australia about embracing old and new technologies, how their music puts “order into chaos”, and building setlists when they have 60 years of material to draw upon.

Jonathon Crompton is a saxophonist, composer, and scholar. His new album, Cantata No. 1: An Island Seen and Felt, is a single extended work for his sax with guitar, two sopranos and a string quartet. Jon joins Andy from New York, where he’s now based, to talk about how he brought together influences from Bach, Renaissance counterpoint, and jazz to describe the Australian coastline.