Music

Electronic Meditation

Electronic Meditation is the only album of the line-up Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler.

Besides acoustic instruments such as the guitar, organ, drums and cello, the band played custom-made electronic devices or used sounds such as broken glass and burning parchment.

“This kind of faith in a better tomorrow through experimentation (or at least the aping of experimentation, in the hopes of stumbling over a little second-hand wisdom) is one of the aspects of late-60s music culture that makes it so unique, and consequently why, in many ways, it was the last time rock was free of its own self-conscious ambition.”
- Pitchfork

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation (1970)

Description

Status	Studio Album
Recording date	October 1969
Release date	1970
All Music by	Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler

Tracklist

	01.	Genesis
	02.	Journey Through A Burning Brain
	03.	Cold Smoke
	04.	Ashes To Ashes
	05.	Resurrection
Depending upon the medium, the indicated tracklist will vary in certain details.

If you had to say just one good thing about the work of the professional critics, what would it be?

Answered by Edgar Froese

Yes, definitely not everything that’s been written about us is crap and I’ve never claimed that it was. Unfortunately, in the public eye, the positive side of something isn’t half as interesting than dirtying someone’s reputations. Is that odd? But one should never forget about the way most critics were before becoming critics. Most critics come from the same background they now criticise. It’s best not to forget one important factor: they’ve gotten through one of the most uncomfortable experiences in life, the lack of acknowledgement in their own efforts to become a successful artist. Very often some frustrated individual tries to save his artistic and philosophical integrity by tearing up a rock act or a theatre premiere with a pen. The way we hate critics for that gives them some inexplicable satisfaction. A writers has an orgasm for 20 bucks per line – at the most. There’s one thing a critic should always keep in mind: “If there is any real doubt as to whether or not an artist has delivered a true piece of work, it is better to vote for than against him; why ? As a writer, you always have a second chance to correct yourself. The artist, once torn apart by the media, doesn’t have the same luxury.Because many critics are quite cynical, here a word from Oscar Wilde: “A cynical critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”By the way, some time next year a documentary will be released featuring some of the most bizarre statements that the media has expressed about TD.