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Rating: 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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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."
By Eliodoro
It is a double LP of electronic music with a stunning cover both externally and internally that immediately projects us towards the sounds of galaxies.
Dark and challenging music, but with immense charm, ethereal moments that exude intangibility.
