Trees Speak for Krautrock (or electronic prog) - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Rivertree wrote:

yep, neo krautrock ... and forwarded to the PSIKE evaluation board

Hi,

I was thinking that it did not exactly fit "krautrock" at all, but within electronic something or other it fits better.

While I like it, I think it is a bit too much on the "pop" side of things and not developed enough to be considered "krautrock", that even had a reputation for not wanting to stop and use the same closing bars as most rock music! I want to watch this gain, but I don't see improvisation much ... to even come close to the term/area requested.

Edited by moshkito - November 04 2020 at 08:11

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Rivertree wrote:

^you won't find any band 100% fitting a subgenre, a matter of convergency or dominance or whatever in most cases
my initial verdict was based on their album 'Ohms' released this year, which shows significant krautrock elements

time will tell

Thanks Uwe. Wink

I also think TS is more krautrock than e-prog, beit in the Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze area or Cluster-Harmonia-earlier Kraftwerk zone or the Can-Neu-LAD region.

Sean Trane wrote:

Rivertree wrote:

^you won't find any band 100% fitting a subgenre, a matter of convergency or dominance or whatever in most cases
my initial verdict was based on their album 'Ohms' released this year, which shows significant krautrock elements

time will tell

Thanks Uwe. Wink

I also think TS is more krautrock than e-prog, beit in the Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze area or Cluster-Harmonia-earlier Kraftwerk zone or the Can-Neu-LAD region.

Hi,

My thoughts are that it is too much pop music oriented with "songs" ... which is something that none of us could accuse the early material listed by Sean a whole lot.

The idea in "krautrock" was much more about the value and extension of the sound and specific event at the moment, than it was about a song itself ... and these excursions often went much more than 3 or 4 or 5 minutes into an area that some of us (SOME OF US) would mostly consider "tripping" than we would consider it a song, or even a piece of music!

The main difference for me is that this group has a "polished" electronic sound, and this was something that all the early German folks did not have because the machines were new and did not have the clean sounding anything ... not to mention that many of these folks were also just learning what this knob or that knob did and how it could be used ... thus, something like TREES SPEAK, would not, necessarily, fit into that "experimental" area ... and I AGREE ... there is a problem here ... that this particular period will never be duplicated ... since the instruments these days ... do not make for similar sounding things, not to mention that many of these folks don't even "know" how to make a knob turn take 2 to 3 minutes, like so many of those early folks did when they were learning about the instrument called synthesizer.

These days, that "idea" of a knob turning, for example, is totally gone and replaced by a pre-recorded sound already in the synthesizer with an added something or other ... not to mention that in those days, they had real drummers ... !!!

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two YES votes so far, it takes some time ...

... and done

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I didn't even know abpout thar first album. Embarrassed

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