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· With Previously Unreleased Bonus Disc Of The Band's Kalngwaldt Concert In Cologne In November 1972
· Restores The Original Double Album In Full
· All Tracks Newly Remastered
· Lavish Illustrated Booklet With New Essay
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a newly re-mastered edition of the classic album "Zeit" by Tangerine Dream. Released in August 1972 on the OHR label in Germany, "Zeit" was recorded at the Dierks Studio near Cologne and also featured a guest appearance by Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh. One of the group's finest early albums, Zeit was enthusiastically championed in the UK by John Peel and was a major breakthrough for Tangerine Dream.
This Esoteric Recordings edition includes a previously unreleased bonus CD of Tangerine Dream's legendendary Kalngwaldt performance recorded in Cologne in November 1972, fully restores the entire unedited double LP version to compact disc and includes a lavishly illustrated deluxe booklet with new essay.
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"Zeit" dates from 1972, but for many, this music remains completely outside of time and stands forever timeless (German speakers will note the pun!) [Ohr's faith in Tangerine Dream must have been enormous, given that this was a double album when released on black vinyl! I remember my (imported) copy, bought in my student days, cost almost a whole term's rent!]
Subtitled "largo in four movements", "Zeit" is, in fact, a single, large-scale work, intended to be experienced at one sitting and I would encourage you to play it this way. The pace is, as the title suggests, unremittingly slow. And the volume level is never high (indeed, there are times when it descends to levels barely audible). You can expect no excitement here. And yet, this music is never boring. From the moment the cellos begin their long drawn out groans, until the music's final dying gasp, the slow unfolding of magical musical ideas is always completely captivating and absolutely spell-binding with the power to hold one's attention throughout the whole 76 minutes of this double album. And although the disc's analogue origins are noticeable at times, they are never intrusive.
As I have already suggested, the sound world of "Zeit" is completely unlike any popular music release either before or since (not strictly true: there were a couple of German groups attempted to emulate the style shortly afterwards, but not with any degree of success) and it remains hard to categorise even now, but then one thing that this music opens to the mind to just how pointless it is to try! The movements' titles (and the cover's paintings) indicate a spacey theme to the music, suggested, I suppose, by the tranquil and meditative nature of the playing and also by the futuristic glissando tones that feature throughout, and gurglings and bubblings of early synth oscillator circuits (beautifully used). Ironically, anyone looking for similar material would do well to try the visionary organ works of Olivier Messiaen, or the works of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, both of whom will be filed away under the Classical music heading here on Amazon.
Whatever your normal musical tastes, I urge you to try this disc, as it is a thing of rare beauty. But beware: it may alter your whole life...
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