Electronic Meditation by Tangerine Dream

 Tangerine Dream's 1970 album, Electronic Meditation.

Tangerine Dream is a band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese, pioneers of krautrock with a seminal sound.

The band has undergone numerous lineup changes, with Froese remaining the sole permanent member until his passing in 2015. Their sound was initially psychedelic and evolved into their cosmic music style.

Electronic Meditation is their first album and a cornerstone of the Krautrock movement, a genre in which Tangerine Dream played a key role, greatly contributing to the adoption of electronic instruments and the development of digital sampling technology. The lineup consists of Edgar Froese, Conrad Schnitzler, and Klaus Schulze, who left the band after the release of this album to pursue his prolific solo career.

It's an avant-garde work with tracks that are chaotic jams or ambient passages with post-composition work as "collages," a landmark album that influenced modern psychedelic music, far from the mainstream.

- "Geburt" ("Genesis") is a synth-dominated avant-garde psychedelic rock, an intense improvisation, noise experimentation, and characterized by an eerie, ritualistic atmosphere.

- "Reise Durch Ein Brennendes Gehirn" ("Journey Through a Burning Brain") is a highly experimental piece and one of the album's two standouts, clocking in at 12 minutes. It's a raw, chaotic, Krautrock and free-form psychedelic rock.

- "Kalter Rauch" ("Cold Smoke") is an experimental, avant-garde piece lasting about 11 minutes that blends free-form rock, psychedelic noise, and early electronic sounds. It's one of the album's two longest tracks, and is heavily improvised.

- "Asche zu Asche" ("Ashes to Ashes") is a very intense short piece, a transition between the longer, more experimental songs, and also characterized by highly improvised free-rock.

- "Auferstehung" ("Resurrection") is the final, short piece (about 3:40) that closes the album and the opening track "Geburt" ("Genesis"), creating a conceptual link between "birth" and "resurrection." A disconcerting piece, with a dark, spacey ambient style.

Electronic Meditation is a seminal album for the Krautrock movement, with great historical value as a prototype for the genre. Essential

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Tracklist

1. Geburt (Genesis) (5:56)
2. Reise Durch Ein Brennendes Gehirn (Journey Through A Burning Brain) (12:22)
3. Kalter Rauch (Cold Smoke) (10:38)
4. Asche Zu Asche (Ashes To Ashes) (4:06)
5. Auferstehung (Resurrection) (3:27)

Duration 36:29

LineUp

- Edgar Froese - 6- and 12-string guitars, Farfisa organ, piano, special effects
- Conrad Schnitzler - cello, violin, guitar, special effects
- Klaus Schulze - percussion, metal sticks

Featuring:
- Jimmy Jackson - organ
- Thomas Keyserling - flute