A musical serial episode 53: Ananas Symphonie: The early work of Kraftwerk.
Kraftwerk’s purely electronic rise to fame after the release of Autobahn came so quickly, that it’s easy to forget the quality of their earlier electro-acoustic work.
Organisation is a band that contained both Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, before they went on to form Kraftwerk. From Tone Float, the only Organisation album to see the light of day, we play the slowly evolving title track. From the album Kraftwerk 2 Klingklang, which flows along just as nicely. Atem and Megaherz fill the middle, and because of the nice weather here in Utrecht, we can’t leave out the Ananas Symphonie (Pineapple Symphony), which marks Kraftwerk first recorded use of the vocoder.
Playlist:
00:00 Sensenta intro #6
00:48 Organisation – Tone Float
21:19 Kraftwerk – Megaherz
30:49 Kraftwerk – Atem
32:20 Kraftwerk – Ananas Symphonie
42:50 Kraftwerk – Klingklang
Sources:
Tone Float, 1970, RCA Victor
Kraftwerk, 1970, Philips
Kraftwerk (2), 1973, Vertigo
Ralf & Florian, 1973, Philips
Sensenta is a programme about long attention spans. Every episode slowly changes hue, and every next episode picks up where the last one left off. This a creates a musical serial, a chain of episodes, touching on different genres at it goes. Youre welcome to join in and give us your opinion. Where should this chain go next? Send us an e-mail at harrold@concertzender.nl, or follow Sensenta on social media.
