Zeit

Zeit (English: Time) is the third studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.^[2] A double LP, it was released in August 1972, being the first release featuring Peter Baumann, who joined then-current members Christopher Franke and Edgar Froese. Zeit is subtitled Largo in Four Movements.

Content

The style of this album is slower and more atmospheric than their previous albums. AllMusic wrote, "TD's purest expression of 'space music', this double album ebbs and flows effortlessly from one tone cluster to another. Almost classical in construction, the music is structured so as to evolve in sections as one theme literally melts into the next."^[1] Music critics often refer to Zeit as being one of the first (or perhaps the first) examples of dark ambient music.

Florian Fricke from the Munich-based group Popol Vuh plays Moog synthesizer on the record, and four cellists appear on the first track. The album cover depicts a solar eclipse.

As explained by Paul Russell for the 2002 reissue, "Zeit, which means 'time', was based on the philosophy that time was in fact motionless and only existed in our own minds."^[3]

Release

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Uncut	^[4]

Zeit was released in August 1972 by record label Ohr.

Before the 2002 reissue, there were two common releases on CD: a single CD release by Castle Music and a double CD set. The double CD set from Relativity in 1987 is longer by a few seconds, mainly because of longer inter-track gaps. Relativity also put out a single cassette, with the following song timings: 20:00, 18:00, 20:12, 17:43. The sound of the two releases is also strikingly different; the original Relativity release has a much brighter and more detailed sound. The Castle release was remastered from the original master tapes over a decade later and there seems to have been a deterioration in quality since then, as it exhibits a notably muddier and bottom-heavy sound. The double CD set has a light blue border on the front and back covers.

The 2011 release includes a second CD with the 25 November 1972 Klangwald concert at Cologne's WDR Sendesaal hall in West Germany, previously released as Tangerine Tree 52: Cologne 1972.

Zomba Music Publishers Limited had released five CD series back in 1996. They all had the same front geometrical lines cover but with different colors; the Zeit album had it in blue. Despite the sleeve notes and the CD containing the following song timings 20:00, 18:00, 20:12, 17:43, the real timings of track 4 ("Zeit") measured in any CD player at only 16:58 but the music starts with some extra 45 seconds of previously unheard music on all the other releases. If one may carefully mix-add these seconds to the beginning of the "Zeit" track from the any after-1996 releases, that would get about 17:30 full track. This also means, at a careful listening of the Zomba release, track 4 ends earlier than any of the after-1996 releases.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Julian Cope's Head Heritage website described Zeit as a "monolithic and gloomy double album" that "wanders through droning passages of emptiness as the origins and formation of the universe are charted [...] It's the band at their most abstract and austere, their most difficult album."^[5]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Birth of Liquid Plejades"	19:54

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nebulous Dawn"	17:56

Side C
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Origin of Supernatural Probabilities"	19:34

Side D
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Zeit"	16:58
Total length:		74:22

Personnel

Edgar Froese – sound generators, guitar
Peter Baumann – keyboards, vibraphone, VCS3
Christopher Franke – keyboards, cymbals, VCS3
Florian Fricke – Moog synthesizer on "Birth of Liquid Plejades"
Steve Schroyder – Organ outro on "Birth of Liquid Plejades"
The Cologne Cello Quartet — Cello intro on "Birth of Liquid Plejades"
- Christian Vallbracht
- Joachim von Grumbkow; credited as Jochen von Grumbcow; co-founder of Hoelderlin
- Hans Joachim Brüne
- Johannes Lücke
Dieter Dierks – recording engineer
Edgar Froese – cover art
Monique Froese – cover and sleeve photography

References

1 2 3 Patterson, Archie. Zeit - Tangerine Dream at AllMusic
↑ Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Zeit". Voices in the Net.
↑ Russell, Paul (2002). Zeit (Media notes). Tangerine Dream.
↑ "Tangerine Dream - Zeit". Uncut.
↑ "Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Tangerine Dream – Atem". 9 March 2012.

External links

Look up Zeit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Zeit at Discogs (list of releases)

Tangerine Dream

Thorsten Quaeschning Hoshiko Yamane Ulrich Schnauss Edgar Froese Lanse Hapshash Kurt Herkenberg Volker Hombach Charlie Prince Steve Jolliffe Klaus Schulze Conrad Schnitzler Christopher Franke Steve Schroyder Peter Baumann Michael Hoenig Klaus Krüger Johannes Schmoelling Paul Haslinger Ralf Wadephul Jerome Froese Linda Spa Iris Camaa Bernhard Beibl

Live and studio albums	Electronic Meditation Alpha Centauri Zeit Atem Phaedra Rubycon Ricochet Stratosfear Encore Cyclone Force Majeure Tangram Quichotte Exit White Eagle Logos Live Hyperborea Poland Le Parc Green Desert Underwater Sunlight Tyger Livemiles Optical Race Lily on the Beach Melrose Rockoon Quinoa 220 Volt Live Turn of the Tides Tyranny of Beauty The Dream Mixes Goblins' Club Tournado TimeSquare – Dream Mixes II Ambient Monkeys Valentine Wheels Sohoman Mars Polaris Soundmill Navigator Antique Dreams The Seven Letters From Tibet The Past Hundred Moons Inferno The Melrose Years The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 1 DM 4 Rockface The Bootleg Box Set Vol. 2 Purgatorio Aachen–January 21st 1981 Montreal–April 9th 1977 Paris–February 2nd 1981 Sydney–February 22nd 1982 Ottawa–June 20th 1986 East Arizona Live Cleveland–June 24th 1986 Brighton–March 25th 1986 Kyoto Jeanne d'Arc Rocking Mars Phaedra 2005 Blue Dawn Paradiso Springtime In Nagasaki Madcap's Flaming Duty Summer In Nagasaki One Times One Detroit–March 31st 1977 Preston–November 5th 1980 Tangerine Dream Plays Tangerine Dream Purple Diluvial Views from a Red Train The Anthology Decades Tangram 2008 Hyperborea 2008 Autumn in Hiroshima Flame Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part I Live @ Dussmann Berlin Winter in Hiroshima DM V Zeitgeist Concert Under Cover – Chapter One The Endless Season The Island of the Fay The Angel of the West Window The Gate of Saturn Finnegans Wake Knights of Asheville Live at Admiralspalast Berlin Cruise to Destiny Starmus — Sonic Universe Lost in Strings — Volume I Franz Kafka — The Castle Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part II Sorcerer 2014 Phaedra Farewell Tour 2014 Supernormal Quantum Gate Live at the Philharmony Szczecin-Poland

Soundtracks	Sorcerer Thief Das Mädchen auf der Treppe Risky Business Wavelength Firestarter Flashpoint Heartbreakers Legend Three O'Clock High Near Dark Shy People Miracle Mile Destination Berlin Dead Solid Perfect Canyon Dreams The Park Is Mine L'Affaire Wallraff (The Man Inside) Deadly Care Rumpelstiltskin Catch Me If You Can The Keep Zoning Oasis (soundtrack) Der Meteor The Hollywood Years Vol. 1 The Hollywood Years Vol. 2 Transsiberia What a Blast Great Wall of China Mota Atma L'Inferno The Music of Grand Theft Auto V: Volume 2 The Score The Cinematographic Score: GTA5

Videos	Canyon Dreams Three Phase Inferno Madcap's Flaming Duty

Works	Discography Filmography Tangerine Tree Bootleg recordings

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