Tone Float
Tone Float is the first and only album of the German Krautrock band organization, from the developed power plant a year later.
Background
Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter Esleben got to know in 1968 at the Art Academy in Remscheid. Both shared an interest in improvised avant-garde music and formed the core of a musical project named organization. First, they went with feedback, sounds and rhythm in universities and galleries.
" We were lucky, because at that time there was already with electronic music concerts, happenings, Fluxus group and so on. This was all quite normal; we played in the same environment, namely the galleries. At first we had no involvement in the traditional music scene; we were seen within the art scene in galleries, universities and the like. "
The album was recorded in early 1970 in a furnished by Conny Plank, makeshift recording studio on a refinery site. Plank founded with Rainbow Productions specifically a production company for German rock music offering with the aim of management and Vertiebsswege for artists. About Planks company reached the recordings to England for the RCA label, which signed the band under contract. The British label released the album in August 1970 only in England, and left the band due to ausbleibendem sales fall again. Tone Float never appeared officially in Germany, first in the 1990s, published unofficial records and CDs.
" We were just very young and tried different things out. The group, which were Ralf and I and some other people who changed from time to time. Maybe we were the most important members, but we both also worked on different projects. I remember not so accurate ... "
These other projects, the establishment of the Kling Klang studio was in the Mintropstraße in Dusseldorf, which after the dissolution of the organization to the nucleus for another project by the duo, the band Kraftwerk was.
Reception
The album has because of the improvisational nature of an unusual for later Kraftwerk albums spontaneous feeling. Bussy describes it as "the first steps of seeking two musicians who would eventually break out of the constraints imposed on them by unstructured improvised music."
Title list
Page 1
Page 2
Composition: Schneider - Esleben, Hauf and Mönicks.
Occupation
- Ralf Hütter - Hammond organ
- Florian Schneider- Esleben - electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electric violin
Percussion:
- Basil Hammoudi - glockenspiel, music box, voice
- Butch Hauf - bass guitar, bells, percussion
- Mönicks Alfred (known as Fred Monicks ) - drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine, drums