Electronic Meditation

Electronic Meditation
1970 LP album cover
Studio album by Tangerine Dream
Released	June 1970
Recorded	October 1969
Genre	Experimental music Krautrock
Length	36:37
Label	Ohr
Producer	Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream chronology
Electronic Meditation (1970) Alpha Centauri (1971)

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Electronic Meditation is the debut album by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.

Recording and history

The album was recorded in a rented factory in Berlin in October 1969, using just a two-track Revox tape recorder. Its style is a unique form of free jazz, electronic art music, and instrumental rock; or as Sound on Sound magazine described it, "free electronic rock". Its instrumentation ranges from conventional instruments such as the guitar, organ, drums, and cello to various custom-made electronic devices implemented by Edgar Froese and found sounds such as broken glass, burning parchment, and dried peas being shaken in a sieve. The backwards vocals at the end of side two are of Edgar Froese reading from the back of a ferry ticket from Dover to Calais. The original LP had a balloon inserted in the cover; the 2004 Japan CD release is a copy of the original LP cover and includes the balloon.

Electronic Meditation is the only Tangerine Dream album to feature the line-up of Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler. The 2002 CD reissue on Sanctuary Records revealed that there were two previously uncredited musicians: organist Jimmy Jackson and flautist Thomas Keyserling.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze, Conrad Schnitzler. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Genesis"	5:57
2.	"Journey Through a Burning Brain"	12:26
3.	"Cold Smoke"	10:38
4.	"Ashes to Ashes"	4:06
5.	"Resurrection"	3:27

Personnel

• Edgar Froese – six- and twelve-string guitar, organ, piano, sound effects, tapes
• Conrad Schnitzler – cello, violin, addiator
• Klaus Schulze – drums, percussion, metal sticks
• Jimmy Jackson – organ (uncredited)
• Thomas Keyserling – flute (uncredited)