Rockoon (Tangerine Dream album)

Rockoon is the forty-fourth major release and twenty-first studio album released by Tangerine Dream. The album was started in March 1991 and completed January 1992, making it the longest production ever in the band's history until the release of Quantum Gate in 2017. The album was nominated in the US for the "Best New Age Album 1992" Grammy and reached the Top Ten in Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard Jazz charts.^[2]

Rockoon
1992 Miramar original cover
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released	March 1992
Recorded	March 1991 – January 1992
Studio	Eastgate Studios (Vienna, Austria) and The Cave (Berlin)
Genre	Berlin School, electronica, rock,[1] new-age
Length	57:48
Label	Virgin (Europe), Miramar (US)
Producer	Edgar Froese
Tangerine Dream chronology
Quinoa (1992) Rockoon (1992) Deadly Care (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

It is the first full album of Tangerine Dream music as a father and son duo. Saxophone player Linda Spa who joined in 1990 does not appear on this release.

The album was re-released in 1999 on Tangerine Dream's own TDI label with new cover artwork by Edgar Froese.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Big City Dwarves"	Jerome Froese	6:00
2.	"Red Roadster"	Jerome Froese	8:30
3.	"Touchwood"	Jerome Froese	4:34
4.	"Graffiti Street"	Jerome Froese	5:04
5.	"Funky Atlanta"	Edgar Froese	4:00
6.	"Spanish Love"	Edgar Froese	5:40
7.	"Lifted Veil"	Jerome Froese	3:30
8.	"Penguin Reference"	Jerome Froese	4:45
9.	"Body Corporate"	Edgar Froese	3:40
10.	"Rockoon"	Jerome Froese	7:21
11.	"Girls on Broadway"	Jerome Froese	4:44

Personnel

Tangerine Dream

• Edgar Froese - composer, musician
• Jerome Froese - composer, musician

Future Tangerine Dream

• Zlatko Perica - musician

Additional musicians:

• Enrico Fernandez - musician
• Richi Wester - musician

Technical:

• David Marino - recording engineer
• Phillip Calvert - recording engineer
• Jeff Robinson - recording engineer

Rockoon Special Edition

Rockoon was accompanied by a special limited single edition CD-5. It included an edited version of the title track, the bonus track "Oriental Haze" featuring Linda Spa and an interview with Edgar Froese.^[4]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rockoon (Special Radio Edit)"	4:16
2.	"Oriental Haze"	3:58
3.	"Interview by Joanne Davenport with Edgar Froese"	14:31

Big City Dwarves

"Big City Dwarves" was used as a promo single with a release of 200 to 300 copies.^[5]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Big City Dwarves"	3:45
2.	"Penguin Reference"	4:45