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Tangerine Dream: Zeit

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Label: Sanctuary Records
Released: 1972
Time:
 74:25
Category: Electronica
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tangerinedream-music.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2009.04.03
Price in €: 7,99





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[1] Birth of Liquid Plejades (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 19:54
[2] Nebulous Dawn (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 17:56
[3] Origin of Supernatural Probabilities (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 19:34
[4] Zeit (P.Baumann/Ch.Franke/E.Froese) - 16:58

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Peter Baumann - Organ, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Vibraphone
Christopher Franke - Synthesizer, Cymbals, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
Edgar Froese - Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Noise, Producer, Paintings, Cover Art, Generator

Florian Fricke - Synthesizer, Moog Synthesizer
Steve Schroyder - Organ

The Cologne Cello Quartett:
Hans Joachim Brüne - Cello
Johannes Lucke - Cello
Christian Vallbracht - Strings, Cello
Jochen Von Grumbcow - Cello

Thomas Heimann-Trosien - Engineer
Dieter Dierks - Engineer
Becky Stewart - Reissue Design
Steve Hammonds - Project Co-ordinator
Anthony Amos - Project Co-ordinator
Monique Froese - Photography
Paul Russel - Sleeve Notes

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1972 LP Virgin 2503
1996 CD Castle ESM347
1996 CD Castle 1034
2000 CD Castle Music America 555
2000 CD Castle 555
2000 LP Castle 0000347
2001 LP Sanctuary 34583471
2002 CD Castle 490
2005 CD Castle Music 36151
2005 CD Castle Us 236151
2006 CD Castle Music UK 591490
2006 CD Disk Union 70489

Quintessential 1972 Krautrock album repackaged, remastered from original tapes and packaged with slipcase and insightful sleeve notes. Part of an ongoing reissue program. Castle.

On its first two albums, pioneering electronic Krautrock group Tangerine Dream made clear its intention to use SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS-era Pink Floyd as a jumping-off point for the band's cosmic explorations. While T. Dream was never anyone'sidea of a rock band, the first two albums do feature electric guitar and drums used prominently in a way that at least tips its hat to the rock aesthetic. On ZEIT, the group movesdefinitively away from rock trappings into purely atmospheric, improvised electronics, creating soundscapes alternatelyambient and avant-garde. A key factor in this process was the solidification of the personnel. Synthesist Peter Baumann completed the trio lineup that would remain intact for the next five years and create the bulk of what's regarded asthe group's classic work. For most of ZEIT, conventional melody and harmony are abandoned completely in favour of pure electronic textures. Things build slowly as waves of analogue synth and heavily processed guitar ebb and flow in these largely rhythmless arrangements. Occasional melodic colours do appear in the form of a cello quartet, and the subtly elegant majesty of the group's constantly mutating sonic paintings makes ZEIT sound like the soundtrack to an odd-but-memorable dream.


Digitally remastered by Thomas Heimann-Trosien (Eastgate Studios, Vienna, Austria 1995).

On its first two albums, pioneering electronic Krautrock group Tangerine Dream made clear its intention to use SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS-era Pink Floyd ...    Full Descriptionas a jumping-off point for the band's cosmic explorations. While T. Dream was never anyone's idea of a rock band, the first two albums do feature electric guitar and drums used prominently in a way that at least tips its hat to the rock aesthetic. On ZEIT, the group moves definitively away from rock trappings into purely atmospheric, improvised electronics, creating soundscapes alternately ambient and avant-garde.

A key factor in this process was the solidification of the personnel. Synthesist Peter Baumann completed the trio lineup that would remain intact for the next five years and create the bulk of what's regarded as the group's classic work. For most of ZEIT, conventional melody and harmony are abandoned completely in favor of pure electronic textures. Things build slowly as waves of analog synth and heavily processed guitar ebb and flow in these largely rhythmless arrangements. Occasional melodic colors do appear in the form of a cello quartet, and the subtly elegant majesty of the group's constantly mutating sonic paintings makes ZEIT sound like the soundtrack to an odd-but-memorable dream.

Quintessential 1972 Krautrock album repackaged, remastered from original tapes and packaged with slipcase and insightful sleeve notes. Part of an ongoing reissue program. Castle.

U.K. reissue.

Recorded at Dierks Studios, Cologne, Germany in 1972. Includes liner notes by Paul Russell.



TD's purest expression of "space music," this double album ebbs and flows effortlessly from one tone cluster to another. Almost classical in construction, the music is structured so as to evolve in sections as one theme literally melts into the next. Florian Fricke (of Popol Vuh) played the big Moog on this album and the overall texture of the electronics is warm and shimmering.

Archie Patterson - All Music Guide


"...Gothic liturgies of mellotron and synthesized abstraction..."

Uncut (2/03, p.91) - 5 stars out of 5



"...In an age when synthesisers were not yet polyphonic, a passing cello section provides the textures that dominate the opening seven minutes....[ZEIT is] icy, meditative calm..."

Mojo (Publisher) (6/96, p.112)
 

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