Tone float
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| Organization studio album | ||||
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Publication |
August 1970 |
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admission |
1970 |
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| Label (s) | RCA Victor | |||
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Format (s) |
LP |
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Krautrock , Experimental |
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Title (number) |
5 |
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running time |
41:19 |
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Tone Float is the first and only music album by the German Krautrock band organization , from which Kraftwerk developed a year later .
background
Florian Schneider-Esleben and Ralf Hütter met in 1968 at the Art Academy in Remscheid. Both shared an interest in improvised avant-garde music and formed the core of a music project called Organization. At first they performed in universities and galleries with feedback, sounds and rhythm.
“We were lucky because at the time there were already concerts with electronic music, happenings, the Fluxus group and so on. It was all quite normal; we played in the same environment, namely the galleries. At first we didn't have any engagements in the traditional music scene; we performed within the art scene, in galleries, universities and the like. "
The album was recorded in the spring of 1970 in a provisional recording studio set up by Conny Plank on a refinery site. Plank founded Rainbow Productions, a production company for German rock music with the aim of offering management and sales channels for artists. The recordings came to England via Plank's company for the RCA label, which signed the band. The British label released the album only in England in August 1970 and dropped the band due to a lack of sales. Tone Float was never officially released in Germany; unofficial records and CDs were only released in the 1990s.
“We were just very young and tried different things. The group was Ralf and I and a few other people who changed from time to time. Maybe we were the most important members, but we were both working on different projects. I don't remember exactly ... "
One of these other projects was the establishment of the Kling-Klang-Studio in Mintropstrasse in Düsseldorf , which after the dissolution of organization became the nucleus for another project of the duo, the band Kraftwerk.
reception
Pascal Bussy describes it as "the first searching steps of two musicians who would eventually break out of the constraints that were imposed on them by unstructured improvised music".
Track list
page 1
- Tone Float - 8:46 PM
Page 2
- Milk Rock - 5:24
- Silver Forest - 3:19
- Rhythm Salad - 4:04
- Noitasinagro - 7:46
Composition: Schneider-Esleben, Hauf and Mönicks.
occupation
- Ralf Hütter - Hammond organ
- Basil Hammoudi - carillon , conga , gong , music box , bongos ("Bangos" on cover), voice
- Florian Schneider-Esleben - electric flute , alto flute , bell , triangle , tambourine , electric violin
- Butch Hauf - bass guitar , corrugaphone, bells , plastic hammer ("plastic hammer" on cover)
- Alfred Mönicks (known as Fred Monicks ) - drums , bongos, maracas , cowbell , tambourine
Web links
- List of titles and publications
- Tone Float at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tone Float by Organization. rateyourmusic.com, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Pascal Bussy: Neon Light - The Kraftwerk Story . Bosworth Edition, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86543-037-6 . , Pp. 24-28
- ↑ Marko Schmidt: Germankraft.de News-Archiv 2002 Kraftwerk Chronik Interview with Basil Hammoudi on 01.12.2003 about his time at organization. In: archive.org. January 12, 2003, archived from the original on April 29, 2004 ; accessed on May 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Marko Schmidt: Germankraft.de News Archive 2003 Kraftwerk Chronik Here is a look back at the time when Alfred Mönicks was organized, born on October 1st, 1950 in Aachen. In: archive.org. 2003, archived from the original on July 2, 2004 ; accessed on May 11, 2017 .