TANGERINE DREAM ELECTRONIC MEDITATION FULL

In early April 2012 the British Esoteric Records re-released Electronic Meditation as part of a re-issue of the TD back catalogue of the Pink and Blue Years. In 2004 the album was re-released in Japan with a cardboard sleeve featuring the exact replica of the original LP sleeves, including the balloon insert. The CD booklet features sleeve notes taken from the book 'Krautrocksampler' by Julian Cope. For this release the music was digitally remastered from the original tapes, and the cover artwork was very similar to the original LP cover. Nine years later, in 1996, the CD was re-released again. While the USA release featured the reworked original cover artwork, the UK release had a total different cover design, originating from the boxed set In The Beginning. In 1987 the album was released on CD for the first time. In music (?) and sound it describes (maybe?) the journey of a brain through different states of mind from birth to death! It was not a big commercial success, but with one album out, it meant that Tangerine Dream got more jobs as a live act. Tangerine Dream's first album, Electronic Meditation, then came out in 1970. It was just great to be in a band who were open to so much experimentation.' (Interview with Mark Pendergast, December 1994, Tangents) I played a lot of different percussive sounds that were then altered by machines.

TANGERINE DREAM ELECTRONIC MEDITATION FULL

I remember Conrad had this metal cup full of these bits of glass in which he stuck a microphone attached to each machine. We were experimenting with a lot of random stuff and were making up our own sounds. Edgar played guitar, Schnitzler organ and me drums through loads of effects. That for me is the primary electronic album. Klaus Schulze: 'We recorded and toured Electronic Meditation. Of course, Tangerine Dream went along with this offer even though the title, Electronic Meditation, is rather misleading not a single real electronic instrument is used on this album! Kaiser was extremely enthusiastic about their music and offered to make an album with Tangerine Dream on the condition that they accepted his suggestion for a title and what the cover should look like. A demo tape came out of this, and it was handed over to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, who had just founded his record company - Ohr Records. The group rented an old factory building and started recording on an old 2-track Revox tape recorder. They used whatever would generate any kind of sound! This collaboration lead to a lot of experimentation with sound effects and tape recorders apart from the use of more conventional and normal instruments. In November 1969, Edgar Froese teamed up with Conrad Schnitzler (cello, violin and flute) and Klaus Schulze (drums), who had been studying and playing classic guitar at a younger age, but then turned to the drums in the band called Psy Free. Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser was interested, and he gave us some money.' (Interview with Neumusik, January 1980) We couldn't handle our equipment, and during that period of recording we couldn't get any record company interested in it. Electronic Meditation was done by absolute amateurs. It's the sort of music you can't create if you're absolutely normal. All the people who went through the band came into the band because they had some sort of craziness about them. That is what has happened with Tangerine Dream over the past 10 years. He was a very bad drummer, but he had some sort of craziness about him that I was looking for. The band was supported by two other musicians: Jimmy Jackson (organ) and Thomas Keyserling (flute), but both were mysteriously left out of the credits of the original album.Įdgar Froese: 'In 1969, I met Klaus in Berlin. This trio formed the line-up of Tangerine Dream to record the debut album Electronic Meditation. In autumn/winter of 1969 Edgar Froese, founder of Tangerine Dream, met Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad SchnitzlerĮdgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler, Jimmy Jackson, Thomas Keyserling

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