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Rating: As someone humorously commented to me, "another Bignami review" that stands alongside two others on DEBASER. I begin by saying that Florian Fricke also collaborated on this album, in the opening track, playing electronic music for the last time before his radical shift towards acoustic instruments. The Tangerine Dream are from Berlin and can be considered the highest expression of "kosmische musik." The work, after a couple of adjustments in the lineup that initially included Klaus Schulze, is by the trio Froese, Franke, and Baumann, musicians certainly with a classical background. Zeit was released in 1972 and is a double LP of electronic music with a stunning cover both externally and internally that immediately projects us towards the sounds of galaxies, into the voids of infinite space with the synthesizers dominating and the absolute absence of rhythm. Dark and challenging music, but with immense charm, ethereal moments that exude intangibility. In short, they are the cosmic couriers, and it is probably to them that Finardi was referring.
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By extro91
"Zeit is a 75-minute symphony divided into four movements."
"I believe it is the absolute masterpiece of Tangerine Dream."
By Cimbarello132
"Time doesn’t matter here; there is only the listener, the music (which in this case is synonymous with life, almost breathable)."
"Zeit represents the darkest peak of Tangerine Dream, the yet unexplored and completely unraveled pinnacle of their discography."
By Rocky Marciano
Electronic circuits generate frequency waveforms, the electromagnetic tensor field, and the wave phenomenon release energy translated into sounds.
The humanization of machines, the mechanization of the human being.
By CosmicJocker
Electronic magma and existential minimalism.
And yet the Universe still hopes, at least as much as I do.
By caesar666
"Zeit is a genuine electronic 'trip' without melody, very minimal, that hypnotizes for its entire duration and from which one wouldn’t want to detach."
"Few albums like 'Zeit' have marked a turning point in the history of 20th-century electronic music, setting new parameters."
