kosmische musik

English

Alternative forms

• kosmische

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Further reading

• Krautrock § Kosmische Musik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia