Klaus Schulze is a musician who played a very important part in my life. I love him so much that I am willing to introduce him to the readers of my blog who never listened to his music, I respect him that much that I do not want to share all his discography, just an album that could give a fair overview of his musical world...
I chose... a 2 CDs boxset from 1978: X. It was still the time of analogic and modular synthesizers; it was the rule of the Big Moog and Minimoog, of the ARP 2600 and ARP Odyssey. These instruments had to be explored and to be mastered, many tricks were to be used in order to retrieve a specific sound or climate. It was before MIDI, computers and samplers...
"X" offers six compositions, from 5:25 to 29:32 minutes and allows us to discover a very romantic and symphonic Klaus Schulze, obviously influenced by composers such as Mahler or Bruckner, and trying to invent new creative roads between rock, krautrock and classical music.
Harald Grosskopf (from Ash Ra Tempel) plays drums on several tracks.
"X" is an attempt to create musical biographies of characters such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, Frank Herbert, Friedmann Bach, Ludwig II von Bayern, Heinrich von Kleist...
Klaus Schulze is exploring the cultural history of Germany through his unique set of electronic instruments...
Thirty years after its release, "X" remains a unique album where a vintage musical technology created unforgettable climates...
Is Klaus Schulze the last romantic of the XXth century ?
"X" is among the CDs I would bring to the desert island I will have to live in, sooner or later...
If any reader of my blog does not know Klaus Schulze, please, listen to this album, it will open many doors and you will not watch the sky anymore as you were used to...
link: mp3 / 320
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2 commentaires:
This is one of my all-time favourites too. "Heinrich von Kleist" is one of the most gorgeous modern classical electronic pieces I know. X is a spiritual excercise that takes you further anytime you're listening to it.
Dear Adam,
I fully agree with your comment and your comparison of X with a spiritual exercise ! "Heinrich von Kleist" has a unique feeling....
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