Purgatorio (album)

Purgatorio
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released	October 26, 2004
Recorded	2003-2004
Genre	Electronica, ambient
Length	131:47
Tangerine Dream chronology
(2003) Purgatorio (2004) (2004)

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Purgatorio is a studio album and the seventy-eighth release overall by electronic band Tangerine Dream. It was released in October 2004. A pre-release version was only available via internet at the Tangerine Dream's website in March 2004. The album includes a studio version of a live performance at the Royal Festival Hall, in London, on March 6, 2004. The show was the opening night of the followed by the world premiere of a restored version of the Italian silent movie “Purgatorio” from 1911 by Giuseppe de Liguoro's, based on the second part of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”^[2][3]

Album trilogy[]

Purgatorio is the second album of a trilogy consisting of the following albums all inspired by Dante's work:

• Inferno (2002)
• Purgatorio (2004)
• (2006) ^[4]

Track listing[]

Disc one[]

1. "Above The Great Dry Land" – 6:19
2. "Chasing The Bad Seed" – 8:48
3. "Slave To The Gods" – 6:31
4. "Hope And Glory" – 6:44
5. "Sun Son's Seal (Part One)" – 8:21
6. "Beyond All Suns" – 6:34
7. "Sisiphus" – 4:37
8. "All The Steps To Heaven" – 13:12
9. "Mountain Of Destiny" – 10:51

Disc two[]

1. "The Glowing Zodiac Wheel" – 6:08
2. "Modern Cave Men" – 5:02
3. "Death Of Medusa" – 7:23
4. "Blinded By The World's Desire" – 6:22
5. "Sun Son's Seal (Part Two)" – 8:27
6. "Soulgate" – 7:59
7. "Till The End Of Silence" – 5:17
8. "Prison And Paradise" – 5:39
9. "Spirit Spiral" – 7:33

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