Zeit (Tangerine Dream album)

1972 studio album by Tangerine Dream

Zeit (Largo in Four Movements)

Original 1972 LP album cover / 2002 CD album reissue

Studio album by

Tangerine Dream

Released| August 1972
Recorded| May 1972
Studio| Dierks Studio
Genre|

* Krautrock[1]
* electronic music
* space music[2]

Length| 74:29
Label| Ohr
Producer| Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream chronology
| Alpha Centauri
(1971)  | Zeit (Largo in Four Movements)
(1972)  | Atem
(1973)

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Alternative cover

1986 reissue cover

Zeit (English: Time) is the third studio album by German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.[3] 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[edit]

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."[2] Music critics often refer to Zeit as being one of the first (or perhaps the first) examples of dark ambient music.[citation needed]

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."[1]

## Release[edit]

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
Head Heritage| positive[4]
Uncut| 5/10[5]

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 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. (To add to the track timing confusions, a recently digitised copy of the original German Ohr label LP release from 1972, using a correctly calibrated Pro-Ject record deck, provides the following track timings, including track bands of several seconds on sides 1 to 3: 20:52; 20:35; 18:54; 18:46.)

## Reception[edit]

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."[6]

## Track listing[edit]

All titles written by Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and Peter Baumann

Side ANo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Birth of Liquid Plejades"| 19:54

Side BNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Nebulous Dawn"| 17:56

Side CNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Origin of Supernatural Probabilities"| 19:34

Side DNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Zeit"| 16:58
Total length:| 74:22

## Personnel[edit]

Tangerine Dream

* Edgar Froese – audio generators, gliss guitar
* Christopher Franke – keyboards, cymbals, VCS3 analog synthesizer
* Peter Baumann – organ, vibraphone, VCS3 analog synthesizer

Former Tangerine Dream

* Steve Schroyder – Organ outro on "Birth of Liquid Plejades"

Additional musicians

* Florian Fricke – Moog synthesizer 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

Credits

* Dieter Dierks – recording engineer
* Edgar Froese – cover art
* Monique Froese – cover and sleeve photography

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Russell, Paul (2002). Zeit (Media notes). Tangerine Dream.
2. ^ a b c Patterson, Archie. Zeit – Tangerine Dream at AllMusic
3. ^ Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Zeit". Voices in the Net.
4. ^ "Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Tangerine Dream – Zeit". 3 January 2003.
5. ^ "Tangerine Dream – Zeit". Uncut.
6. ^ "Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Reviews | Tangerine Dream – Atem". 9 March 2012.

## External links[edit]

Look up Zeit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

* Zeit at Discogs (list of releases)

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Tangerine Dream main albums discography

Main studio, live
and soundtrack albums
(1970–present)|

| The Pink Years (1970–1973)|

* Electronic Meditation
* Alpha Centauri
* Zeit
* Atem

|

The Virgin Years (1974–1984)|

* Phaedra
* Rubycon
* Ricochet (live)
* Stratosfear
* Sorcerer (soundtrack)
* Encore (live)
* Cyclone
* Force Majeure
* Tangram
* Quichotte (live)
* Thief (soundtrack)
* Exit
* White Eagle
* Logos (live)
* Wavelength (soundtrack)
* Hyperborea
* The Keep (soundtrack)
* Risky Business (soundtrack)
* Firestarter (soundtrack)
* Flashpoint (soundtrack)

The Blue Years (1984–1988)|

* Poland (live)
* Heartbreakers (soundtrack)
* Le Parc
* The Park Is Mine (soundtrack)
* Green Desert
* Legend (soundtrack)
* Underwater Sunlight
* Deadly Care (soundtrack)
* Tyger
* Canyon Dreams (soundtrack)
* Three O'Clock High (soundtrack)
* Near Dark (soundtrack)
* Shy People (soundtrack)
* Livemiles (live)

The Melrose Years (1988–1990)|

* Optical Race
* Dead Solid Perfect (soundtrack)
* Miracle Mile (soundtrack)
* Catch Me If You Can (soundtrack)
* Lily on the Beach
* Destination Berlin (soundtrack)
* Melrose
* L'Affaire Wallraff (The Man Inside) (soundtrack)

The Seattle Years (1991–1995)|

* Rumpelstiltskin (soundtrack)
* Quinoa
* Rockoon
* 220 Volt (live)
* Turn of the Tides
* Tyranny of Beauty
* The Dream Mixes (remix)

The TDI Years (1996–2005)|

* Zoning (soundtrack & re-recording)
* Goblins' Club
* Oasis (soundtrack)
* TimeSquare
* Ambient Monkeys
* Jim & Pablo: Der Meteor (soundtrack)
* Tournado (live)
* Transsiberia (soundtrack)
* Valentine Wheels (live)
* Sohoman (live)
* What a Blast (soundtrack)
* Mars Polaris
* Great Wall of China (soundtrack)
* The Seven Letters from Tibet
* The Past Hundred Moons (remix)
* Inferno (live)
* The Melrose Years (re-recordings)
* Mota Atma (soundtrack)
* DM 4 (remix)
* Rockface (live)
* Purgatorio
* East (live)
* Arizona (live)
* Kyoto
* Jeanne d'Arc
* Rocking Mars (live)

The Eastgate Years (2005–2014)|

* Phaedra 2005 (re-recording)
* Blue Dawn
* Paradiso
* Tangerine Dream Plays Tangerine Dream (re-recordings & remix)
* Springtime In Nagasaki
* Madcap's Flaming Duty
* Summer in Nagasaki
* Purple Diluvial
* Views from a Red Train
* Tangram 2008 (re-recording)
* Hyperborea 2008 (re-recording)
* Autumn In Hiroshima
* The London Eye Concert (live)
* Flame
* Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part I
* Winter in Hiroshima
* Izu (live)
* DM V (remix)
* Zeitgeist (live)
* Under Cover – Chapter One (covers)
* The Endless Season
* The Island of the Fay
* The Gate of Saturn
* The Angel of the West Window
* Live at the Lowry (live)
* Mona Da Vinci
* Finnegans Wake
* Knights of Asheville (live)
* Machu Picchu
* Live in Budapest (live)
* Live at Admiralspalast Berlin (live)
* Cruise to Destiny (re-recordings)
* Starmus — Sonic Universe (with Brian May) (live)
* The Castle
* The Cinematographic Score GTA 5 (soundtrack)
* Chandra - The Phantom Ferry Part II
* Sorcerer 2014 (re-recording)
* Josephine the Mouse Singer
* Phaedra Farewell Tour - The Concerts (live)

The Quantum Years (2014–present)|

* Mala Kunia
* Supernormal - The Australian Concerts (live)
* The Official Bootleg Series Volume One (live)
* Quantum Key
* The Official Bootleg Series Volume Two (live)
* Live at the Philharmony Szczecin - Poland (live)
* Particles (live & studio)
* Light Flux (re-recordings & studio)
* The Sessions I (live)
* Quantum Gate
* The Sessions II (live)
* The Sessions III (live)
* The Sessions IV (live)
* Recurring Dreams (re-recordings)
* Oedipus Tyrannus
* Live at Augusta Raurica Switzerland (live)
* The Sessions V (live)
* Raum
* Live at Reims Cathedral (live)

* v
* t
* e

Tangerine Dream

* Thorsten Quaeschning
* Hoshiko Yamane
* Paul Frick

* Edgar Froese
* Christopher Franke
* Peter Baumann
* Johannes Schmoelling
* Paul Haslinger
* Jerome Froese
* Linda Spa
* Conrad Schnitzler
* Klaus Schulze
* Michael Hoenig
* Steve Jolliffe
* Ralf Wadephul
* Bernhard Beibl
* Zlatko Perica
* Ulrich Schnauss

Partial recordings|

* 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
* Quinoa
* Rockoon
* 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
* Inferno
* Purgatorio
* Jeanne d'Arc
* Rocking Mars
* Phaedra 2005
* Views from a Red Train
* Blue Dawn
* Booster
* Flame
* Paradiso
* Madcap's Flaming Duty
* Plays Tangerine Dream
* Under Cover – Chapter One
* The Island of the Fay
* Mona da Vinci
* Finnegans Wake
* Knights of Asheville
* Josephine The Mouse Singer
* Mala Kunia
* Quantum Key
* Particles
* Quantum Gate
* Recurring Dreams
* Raum

Singles|

* "Betrayal"
* "Das Mädchen auf der Treppe"
* "Warsaw in the Sun"
* "Love on a Real Train"
* "A Time for Heroes"

Soundtracks|

* Sorcerer
* Thief
* Das Mädchen auf der Treppe
* Daydream
* Wavelength
* Risky Business
* Firestarter
* Flashpoint
* Heartbreakers
* Legend
* Three O'Clock High
* Near Dark
* Shy People
* Miracle Mile
* Destination Berlin
* Canyon Dreams
* Dead Solid Perfect
* The Park Is Mine
* L'Affaire Wallraff (The Man Inside)
* Rumpelstiltskin
* Catch Me If You Can
* The Keep
* Zoning
* Oasis
* Der Meteor
* What a Blast
* Great Wall of China
* Mota Atma
* Music of Grand Theft Auto V

Compilations and sets|

* Dream Music – The Movie Music of Tangerine Dream
* In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973–1979

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* Discography
* Filmography
* Tangerine Tree
* Bootleg recordings

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