- Tone Float
Infobox Album |
Name = Tone Float
Type =Album
Artist = Organisation
Released =1970
Recorded = Germany
Genre =Krautrock
Length = 41:19
Label =RCA Victor flagicon|United Kingdom
Producer =Conny Plank & Organisation
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Adxfuxqt5ld6e link]
Last album =
This album = "Tone Float"
(1970)
Next album = "Kraftwerk"
(1970)"Tone Float" is an LP by the German band Organisation. The album sold few copies on its UK-only release in August 1970, and is remembered because two of the band members,
Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben, later went on to form the groupKraftwerk . It was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank.:"‘The studio was in the middle of an oil refinery. When we came out of the door we could hear the sound of those big flames burning off the fumes – all kinds of industrial noises.’"::—
Ralf Hütter [Interview in "Select" magazine, 1991]Sales were poor and RCA opted to drop the band, which then dissolved.
The album has never been officially reissued, although bootleg CDs and LPs appeared in the 1990s. These often included a bonus audio track, erroneously titled "Vor dem blauen Bock", which in fact is an instrumental named "Rückstoss Gondoliere", from a 22 May 1971 performance by Kraftwerk on the Bremen "
Beat-Club " TV show. This song features the short lived line-up of Florian Schneider,Michael Rother andKlaus Dinger (Ralf Hütter had left the group during this period to pursue studies in architecture).Track listing
ide one
#"Tone Float" – 20:46
ide two
#"Milk Rock" – 5:24
#"Silver Forest" – 3:19
#"Rhythm Salad" – 4:04
#"Noitasinagro" – 7:46All compositions by Schneider-Esleben, Hauf and Mönicks.Credits
*
Ralf Hütter – Hammond-organ.
* Florian Schneider-Esleben – Electric flute, alto flute, bell, triangle, tambourine, electro-violin, percussion.
*Basil Hammoudi – Glockenspiel, conga gong, musical box, bangos, percussion, voice.
*Butch Hauf – Bass-guitar, shaky tube, small bells, plastic hammer, percussion.
*Alfred Mönicks (credited as "Fred Monicks ") – Drums, bongos, maracas, cowbell, tambourine, percussion.
* Konrad "Conny" Plank – Sound-engineering.Release details
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