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The Tangerine formed in 1966 under the initiative of guitarist Edgar Froese, percussionist Klaus Schulze, and keyboardist Conrad Schintzler. From this formation, their first album, "Electronic Meditation," was born.
Subsequently, the group disbanded, but Froese persisted. In fact, in 1971 he recorded "Alpha Centauri" (an album that would mark the beginning of "cosmic music") with Christopher Franke and Steve Schroyder, who would later be replaced by Peter Baumann. The following year "Zeit" was born, an album in which the Tangerine abandoned traditional instruments to focus solely on electronic synthesizers.
"Zeit" is a 75-minute symphony divided into four movements. The first "Birth Of Liquid Plejades" begins with a quartet of cellos and then continues with organ and moog dissonances. In the second movement "Nebulous Dawn" at first, it seems like being onboard an orbiting station, then progressively the sound becomes more and more ethereal and intangible. The third movement "Origin Of Supernatural Probabilities" starts with a few notes of electric guitar, and around the fourth minute begins a long sequence in which the listener seems to be covered with many air bubbles before returning to the rarefied atmosphere that characterized the first part. The fourth and final movement (the title track) is a concentration of harsh and dark sounds, of stellar wind hisses. It feels like entering the deepest recesses of the cosmos but at the same time those of the mind.
Thus ends "Zeit," an album I believe is the absolute masterpiece of Tangerine Dream.
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