![]() Edgar told us later that he thought the guitar neck was 10 meters long and he couldn’t reach it. That was a gig! Conny Schnitzler had a violin with a pickup which he just held in front of the speaker, and it just screamed the whole time. Well, these guys dropped some LSD into our tea, right before the gig! Geez. It lasted the entire weekend, and we visited Guru Guru who lived somewhere near there. "One day we played with Tangerine Dream at a festival in some castle or other. Klaus recalls a rather strange concert experience from the same year. Conrad was likewise on a rather unorthodox journey into fine art, and he created sounds with all sorts of tools. They found a musical partner in Conrad Schnitzler, a former student of Joseph Beuys. In late 1969, Edgar met the drummer Klaus Schulze, who just had left his band Psy Free. Bands like Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and Agitation Free rehearsed at the studio and were consequently labeled as founders of the so called Berlin School genre in the 1970s. That same year, Swiss avant-garde composer Thomas Kessler, a former student of Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, founded the Beat Studio in a school basement in the Pfalzburger Strasse and later at Halensee-Elementary School. ![]() Tangerine Dream performed alongside musicians like Amon Düül, Guru Guru, The Fugs and Frank Zappa. Almost a year before Woodstock, it was the biggest music festival that Europe had ever seen. The 5-days festival is now considered the "hour of birth" of original German rock music and it featured a heterogeneous program of panel discussions, exhibitions, performances and the finest underground musicians - both German and American. In September 1969 the band had their first performance at a larger event at the Internationale Essener Songtage. One of the first official line-ups was: Volker Hombach (saxophone, flute, violin), Lanse Hapshash (drums), Kurt Herkenberg (bass) and Edgar Froese (guitar). Resurrection closes the loop with a very pastoral intro that floats in vocal delirium before taking up a sinuous and lazy heaviness inspired by Genesis' intro.The first concert ever given by Tangerine Dream was in January 1968 in the Technical University of Berlin. Ashes to Ashes is a kind of psychedelic blues, triturated by the Machiavellian mind of Conrad Schnitzler, excellent in the art of shaping strange sound effects. ![]() Strange and anti-musical, there are still some good passages, especially when Froese's solos tear a wall of steel in an innovative pre-progressive delirium. ![]() A dulcet intro with a soaring organ, the track is constantly stultified by dry strings from a delirious violin and a demonic Schulze on drums, while the organ always remains placidly in tune with a lonely quest. Cold Smoke is hallucinatory smoke worthy of an LSD hit. Totally crazy, but surprisingly attractive, Journey Through A Burning Brain is the equal of Pink Floyd's cult album Ummagumma sessions. Hallucinatory and quite incoercible after a good firecracker! The ambient sounds oscillating between the undulating organ layers that straighten up in ghostly sinuosity, Journey Through A Burning Brain blazes on a supple and discordant rhythm where the guitars spit a rock venom on a surprising percussions play from Klaus Schulze while the flute establishes a jungle climate. A track that becomes more poetic with a very Floyd flavor and an organ that fits Froese's incisive strings. Here, Edgar Froese explores the sounds of his guitars. Journey Through a Burning Brain kicks into gear on the cacophonous Genesis finale. A quintet searching and tuning its instruments before an avalanche of percussion hits the psychedelic aboriginal rhythm of Genesis which becomes heavier, despite the beautiful flute of Thomas Keyserling. Here, the rhythm is absent, the music abstract. Deviant organ layers on percussions as random as celestial, Conrad Schnitzer 's cello bites into the very ambient and floating opening of Genesis. A sonic bric-a-brac that wallows in a psychedelic tumult with astonishing melodic passages.
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