Since @ALFAMA has brought it up again these days, I went back to listen to it. Organisation was certainly too experimental a project to "break through" and achieve success, and this was probably the reason why Ralf and Florian abandoned it after this first and only album. I definitely have it somewhere on CD, but who knows where it ended up. It was a pleasure to listen to it again after years.
Organisation - Tone Float (RCA Victor, August 1969)
The first and only album by Organisation, basically the first project of Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider-Esleben before the founding of Kraftwerk. The lineup also includes Basil Hammoudi, Butch Hauf, and Aldred "Fred" Monicks. The album was recorded in London with the collaboration of the legendary Konrad "Conny" Plank and released on RCA Victor in August 1969. "Tone Float" certainly has a sound quite different from what we usually associate with the historic duo of electronic music. It is an episode of experimental and psychedelic music or at the edge of progressive. The basic inspiration looks at the use of cutting-edge instrumentation and a certain interest in mechanical components. The album was, after all, recorded in the middle of a refinery (as stated by Ralf Hutter himself), and their goal was to try to reproduce those "industrial" sounds. Essentially based on the title track "Tone Float," which occupies the entire Side A of the LP, it constitutes a long session of minimalist music with progressive psychedelic influences repeated throughout the duration of the track in a consistent, almost hypnotic manner, along with the distinctive sound of the percussions and the central role of Florian's alto flute. On Side B, different compositions alternate: "Noitasinagro" is already kraut-rock, "Milk Rock" and "Rhythm Salad" are two experimental episodes of avant-garde and abstract noise; "Silver Forest" can be defined as a brief glimpse of minimalist ambient music, and it is probably the most interesting track besides the title track. As mentioned, we are very far from the sound that would later become typical of Kraftwerk, but this is an album that is always worth discovering or rediscovering.
Organisation - Tone Float (Full Album) 1969
#krafwerk #organisation #krautrock
Organisation - Tone Float (RCA Victor, August 1969)
The first and only album by Organisation, basically the first project of Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider-Esleben before the founding of Kraftwerk. The lineup also includes Basil Hammoudi, Butch Hauf, and Aldred "Fred" Monicks. The album was recorded in London with the collaboration of the legendary Konrad "Conny" Plank and released on RCA Victor in August 1969. "Tone Float" certainly has a sound quite different from what we usually associate with the historic duo of electronic music. It is an episode of experimental and psychedelic music or at the edge of progressive. The basic inspiration looks at the use of cutting-edge instrumentation and a certain interest in mechanical components. The album was, after all, recorded in the middle of a refinery (as stated by Ralf Hutter himself), and their goal was to try to reproduce those "industrial" sounds. Essentially based on the title track "Tone Float," which occupies the entire Side A of the LP, it constitutes a long session of minimalist music with progressive psychedelic influences repeated throughout the duration of the track in a consistent, almost hypnotic manner, along with the distinctive sound of the percussions and the central role of Florian's alto flute. On Side B, different compositions alternate: "Noitasinagro" is already kraut-rock, "Milk Rock" and "Rhythm Salad" are two experimental episodes of avant-garde and abstract noise; "Silver Forest" can be defined as a brief glimpse of minimalist ambient music, and it is probably the most interesting track besides the title track. As mentioned, we are very far from the sound that would later become typical of Kraftwerk, but this is an album that is always worth discovering or rediscovering.
Organisation - Tone Float (Full Album) 1969
#krafwerk #organisation #krautrock
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