Hyperborea | ||||
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Studio album by Tangerine Dream | ||||
Released | November 1983 | |||
Recorded | August 1983 | |||
Genre | Electronic music | |||
Length | 40:15 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
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Hyperborea is the nineteenth album by Tangerine Dream. It spent two weeks on the UK album chart peaking at No.45.
"No Man's Land" makes heavy use of sitar. "Cinnamon Road" also utilizes sitar, but with a conventional pop music structure. The longest track, "Sphinx Lightning"', recapitulates every style explored by Tangerine Dream over the previous decade.
The album title refers to Hyperborea, a mythical, idyllic land in the Ancient Greek tradition, supposedly located far to the north of Thrace and where it was claimed the sun shone twenty-four hours a day.