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Purgatorio (album)

Purgatorio
Tangerine Dream - Purgatorio.jpg
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released October 26, 2004
Recorded 2003-2004
Genre Electronica, Ambient
Length 131:47
Tangerine Dream chronology
Inferno
(2002)Inferno2002
Purgatorio
(2004)
Jeanne d'Arc
(2005)Jeanne d'Arc2005

Purgatorio is the seventy-eighth album 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 6th, 2004. The show was the opening night of the Ether Electronic Music Festival 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 “La Divina Commedia.”

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


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