"Glued together from dissonant elements of musique concrète, jazz-rock
improvisation, and prime mover Edgar Froese’s primitive tape collages, Tangerine Dream’s 1970 debut, Electronic Meditation,
bore scant relation to the eerily pristine proto-electronica with which
the pioneering German outfit would shortly become synonymous. However,
while it was still largely driven by organic instrumentation, including
flutes, Froese’s Hendrix-ian guitar squalls and newly arrived second lieutenant Christopher Franke’s drum kit, the band’s second LP, Alpha Centauri,
featured a significantly heavier reliance on emerging electronic
technology and layers of atmospheric keyboards, paving the way for their
third LP, Zeit. ..."
YouTube: Zeit 2:32:42 2021
December: Poland (The Warsaw Concert 1984)
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