I got this from WH Smith, according to the price label. Those were the days: pop down to your local stationers for the latest 12" single from a past-their-prime German electronic band. More for posterity than out of expectation that it would light my fire. Tangerine Dream were as much of an "albums" band as it was possible to be, and the Poland album was decent enough for me to be interested in this appendix to it Warsaw in the Sun.
In fact, it sounds like a collection of encores (the back cover may imply that all the pieces were recorded at the Warsaw gig on 10 December 1983, but I'm sceptical, and I've only just discovered the video below, so I haven't checked). I can't recall Poland sufficiently clearly to be sure that Warsaw in the Sun, Parts 1 & 2 aren't on the album, but I don't think they are. Rather than two sequential parts, I'd guess these are two distinct performances of the same basic piece. And they're cheeky with their track titles, as "Polish Dance" is just a live version, of Midnight in Tula from the White Eagle album, while Rare Bird is fundamentally the same pieces as Dominion, the encore from Logos.
Having said TD were about albums rather than singles, the shorter pieces on this release are possibly as close to the orbit of, say, OMD as they ever came. It's still not that close (they wouldn't submit to the disciplines of song structure), and, needless to say, it didn't chart.
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