Conrad Schnitzler & Pole

One of the prime figures in the growth of Krautrock, Conrad Schnitzler made important contributions to the early history of Tangerine Dream and Kluster. Like many in the Krautrock community, Schnitzler was greatly inspired by influences in the visual artistic world as well as the musical; he studied sculpture with Joseph Beuys, and composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, also looking to John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer for inspiration. By 1969 he was working with Tangerine Dream, with whom he recorded Electronic Meditation. The album became one of the most distinctive in TD's di...