kosmische musik

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Borrowed from German kosmische Musik (cosmic music), used in German in the liner notes of the album Alpha Centauri (1971).

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kosmische musik (uncountable)

  1. (music) West German experimental space rock from the 1970s.
    Synonyms: kosmische, krautrock
    Coordinate terms: space rock, New Age music
    • 2010 March 30, Jon Savage, “Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock”, in The Guardian[1]:
      It began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du jour: krautrock, kosmische musik, elektronische musik, or whatever you wish to call German experimental rock from the 1970s.
    • 2016, Ulrich Adelt, Krautrock: German Music in the Seventies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 11:
      Another term commonly used for some German music from the 1970s is kosmische Musik (“cosmic music”). It was introduced by Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser to market krautrock artists like Ash-Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, and Klaus Schulze. Although rejected by many artists associated with it, kosmische Musik remains a somewhat useful term to describe the synthesizer-heavy, meditative anti-rock of some West German musicians of the 1970s.

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