Schulze, Klaus

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2000/ 2006
Nr.: 87
Ballett 2 from Contemporary Works I was also re-released. It is identical to the original release, with no bonus material. For those unable to purchase the complete 10-CD set before, this is a wonderful opportunity to explore this daring work, showing Schulze at his adventurous best.

The moody “Atmosp’ere Concr’ete” starts things off, slowly churning for a few minutes before launching into the 30-minute epic “Kagi’s “Agony” from Ballett 1. Classic smooLament”.Though not overly cheerful, it is not nearly so downcast as th synth pads meld with Wolfgang Tiepold’s wonderful cello playing, as Thomas Kagermann adds flute, violin, and non-intrusive vocals that serve as a third contributing instrument.
“Wolf’s Ponticelli” picks up the pace if not the melancholy mood as crisp percussive rhythms ensue, along with strong synth soloing throughout.
Breathy wood flutes add a nice twist to “The Smile of Shadows” and bring the disc to a successful conclusion.

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2000 / 2017 / 2025
This is the re-release of CD 8 from the deleted set Contemporary Works I
Ballett 3 was recorded in Hambühren, Germany in 2000
KS - electronix, mix
Wolfgang Tiepold - cello
Thomas Kagermann - flute, violin, vocals
Tobias Becker - oboe
Tom Dams - vocals, atmospherics
Julia Messenger - vocals

‘Ballett 3’ was originally part of the out-of-print 10CD box ‘Contemporary Works’.
’Ballett 3’ – the third of four albums in this series – was produced together with cellist Wolfgang Tiepold, who was also involved in the 78s work ‘X’ and ‘Dune’, ‘Trancefer’ and ‘Audentity’.
Tiepold enjoyed much freedom for his solos, as for instance on ‘Agony’, on which his music is intensively wide-ranging.
And Ballett 4:
This is the re-release of CD 9 from the deleted set Contemporary Works I
Ballett 4 was recorded in Hambühren, Germany in 2000

Klaus Schulze - Electronics
Wolfgang Tiepold - Cello
Thomas Kagermann - Flute, violin, voc
One of Klaus’ strongest discs from the 10-CD Contemporary Works I collection, Ballett 4, showcases some fine melancholy mellotron solos, beginning appropriately enough with “Mellowtrone.”
Lush synth pads and mellotron strings intertwine in perfect harmony. The music is intentionally kept simple; no other layers are added, the intensity stays low, and the subdued mood is maintained throughout.
Drums ‘n’ bass fade in as “Soft ‘n’ Groovy” begins. One would not normally associate cello with “groovy,” but then Schulze was never one for convention. Crisp percussion is added as this one moves leisurely evolves over the course of a half hour. Cool synths and occasional male vocals add a vaguely eastern feel to the music midway through.

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2000/ 2007
Nr.: 89
Re-issue in a deluxe Digipak packaging with a 16-page booklet full of pictures and new liner notes.
This is the re-release of CD 9 from the deleted set Contemporary Works I
Ballett 4 was recorded in Hambühren, Germany in 2000

Klaus Schulze - Electronics
Wolfgang Tiepold - Cello
Thomas Kagermann - Flute, violin, voc
One of Klaus’ strongest discs from the 10-CD Contemporary Works I collection, Ballett 4, showcases some fine melancholy mellotron solos, beginning appropriately enough with “Mellowtrone.”
Lush synth pads and mellotron strings intertwine in perfect harmony. The music is intentionally kept simple; no other layers are added, the intensity stays low, and the subdued mood is maintained throughout.
Drums ‘n’ bass fade in as “Soft ‘n’ Groovy” begins. One would not normally associate cello with “groovy,” but then Schulze was never one for convention. Crisp percussion is added as this one moves leisurely evolves over the course of a half hour. Cool synths and occasional male vocals add a vaguely eastern feel to the music midway through.

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2013
Klaus Schulze decided to release a  CD and 2 X DVD volumes of his tour from 2009 together with Lisa Gerrard.
 

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2014
Klaus Schulze decided to release 3 CD and DVD volumes of his tour from 2009 together with Lisa Gerrard.

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2010
After having made one studio-album, and two Live-DVDs and albums with Lisa Gerrard, Klaus Schulze thought it was time to give the world back the “pure” Klaus Schulze again.
Having been invited by his big Japanese Fan, Mr. Gen Fujita, he and his crew flew to Tokyo to play his very first solo concerts since November 2003. The concerts in Tokyo in March 2010 were remarkable for many reasons.
First of all, the Japanese crew rebuilt Klaus‘ legendary and extraordinary equipment exactly the same way as you can see it at his European concerts. Considering the fact that this equipment includes a lot of rare instruments and devices, the Japanese crew did a great job. Secondly, the concert itself contained some surprises:
It was the first time that Klaus Schulze rebuilt and remodeled his classic “Crystal Lake”
(original released 1977 on the album “Mirage”), renamed here as: “The Crystal Returns”.
Also astonishing was the fact that Klaus played electric guitar on the track, “Sequencers Are Beautiful” - of course in his own, totally unconventional way.
In all, these were breathtaking concerts that combined Klaus tradition and vision: You will
love the sequencer-sounds as well as the new components. And of course, the DVD gives you the perfect vision of these intense and atmospheric performances.
“Big In Japan” had already been released in Japan as a box-set, limited to 500 copies.
This European version is slightly different:. The track “Sequencers Are Beautiful” (in the
Japan-Edition only available on DVD) can be found here as the second track on the first CD. Along with a new stylish package, these historic moments are now available for every Klaus Schulze fan!

Here the last copy!

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 2011
This American Version of “Big In ” contains a different DVD than the limited Japanese version (already sold out!) and a different DVD than the European Version! It will be released on NTSC-format especially for the American market.
After having made one studio-album, and two Live-DVDs and albums with Lisa Gerrard, Klaus Schulze thought it was time to give the world back the “pure” Klaus Schulze again.
Having been invited by his big Japanese Fan, Mr. Gen Fujita, he and his crew flew to Tokyo to play his very first solo concerts since November 2003. The concerts in Tokyo in March 2010 were remarkable for many reasons.
First of all, the Japanese crew rebuilt Klaus‘ legendary and extraordinary equipment exactly
the same way as you can see it at his European concerts. Considering the fact that this
equipment includes a lot of rare instruments and devices, the Japanese crew did a great
job.
Secondly, the concert itself contained some surprises:
It was the first time that Klaus Schulze rebuilt and remodeled his classic “Crystal Lake”
(original released 1977 on the album “Mirage”), renamed here as: “The Crystal Returns”.
Also astonishing was the fact that Klaus played electric guitar on the track, “Sequencers Are
Beautiful” - of course in his own, totally unconventional way.
In all, these were breathtaking concerts that combined Klaus tradition and vision: You will
love the sequencer-sounds as well as the new components.
And of course, the DVD gives you the perfect vision of these intense and atmospheric
performances.
“Big In Japan” had already been released in Japan as a box-set, limited to 500 copies.
This European version is slightly different:. The track “Sequencers Are Beautiful” (in the
Japan-Edition only available on DVD) can be found here as the second track on the first CD.
Along with a new stylish package, these historic moments are now available for every Klaus
Schulze fan!


Here the last copy!

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 1974/ 1991
Recorded in May 1974, Berlin, Germany
First Released in 1974, on Brain and Virgin
Klaus Schulze - synthesizer, organ, piano, percussion, 12-string acoustic guitar
Ernst Siemon - bass, voice on "Voices of Syn"
"Blackdance" was my first album to be released in England on Caroline, a Virgin label. Before that (Virgin boss) Richard Branson had signed Tangerine Dream, and then he also contacted me. Of course, I said yes right away. Not just because Branson liked music from Germany but also since Virgin was at the time, apart from Island Records, the prestigious English record company.
For Voices of Syn (the longest piece on Blackdance), I used the voice of Ernst Walter Siemon. He was an opera singer who had rehearsed at the studio in Berlin where we had recorded the first Tangerine Dream record Electronic Meditation (1970). I happened to be there and asked him whether he wanted to sing something for me and he did a little collage for me that consisted of Verdi and a few other composers. I recorded it on my Revox tape machine and used it for this intro a few years later. I played 12-string guitar on Blackdance myself, since I started with the acoustic guitar, before I played drums. At the time, I had been in New York and I bought a Martin 12-string at Manny's Music Store because it sounded so unbelievably wonderful. I thought I definitely had to use that sound in a song somewhere but after I had completed Blackdance I found this thing with the guitar and congas and tablas not that great anymore. It sounded too much like folk to me. On the other hand many people have told me that it was actually this sound which drew their attention to my music. For instance, Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree told me this recently. He thinks Blackdance is a fantastic album. I can't quite exactly remember the details of the bonus tracks. I think they originated at the The Manor Studio, owned by Virgin, back in 1975 where I produced the Far East Family Band (with Masanori Takahashi, aka Kitaro) and it was possibly during a break when the guys were asleep. But I can't swear to it. There are an incredible amount of tapes which I have filled with music, which are temporarily stored until (Klaus Dieter) Muller digs them out again. When somebody asks me thirty years later, when, where and how I did one of these pieces, for me it's just like someone investigating a tax offence, "We have a receipt here from the petrol station. Where did you get petrol on August 7th 1997?" When even Muller doesn't know exactly when and where I did a piece of music, then no-one knows!"

Klaus Schulze

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 1974/ 2007 / 2016
Recorded in May 1974, Berlin, Germany
The bonus tracks were recorded in the year 1976
First Released in 1974, on Brain and Virgin

Klaus Schulze - synthesizer, organ, piano, percussion, 12-string acoustic guitar
Ernst Siemon - bass, voice on "Voices of Syn"
"Blackdance" was my first album to be released in England on Caroline, a Virgin label. Before that (Virgin boss) Richard Branson had signed Tangerine Dream, and then he also contacted me. Of course, I said yes right away. Not just because Branson liked music from Germany but also since Virgin was at the time, apart from Island Records, the prestigious English record company.

For Voices of Syn (the longest piece on Blackdance), I used the voice of Ernst Walter Siemon. He was an opera singer who had rehearsed at the studio in Berlin where we had recorded the first Tangerine Dream record Electronic Meditation (1970). I happened to be there and asked him whether he wanted to sing something for me and he did a little collage for me that consisted of Verdi and a few other composers. I recorded it on my Revox tape machine and used it for this intro a few years later. I played 12-string guitar on Blackdance myself, since I started with the acoustic guitar, before I played drums. At the time, I had been in New York and I bought a Martin 12-string at Manny's Music Store because it sounded so unbelievably wonderful. I thought I definitely had to use that sound in a song somewhere but after I had completed Blackdance I found this thing with the guitar and congas and tablas not that great anymore. It sounded too much like folk to me. On the other hand many people have told me that it was actually this sound which drew their attention to my music. For instance, Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree told me this recently. He thinks Blackdance is a fantastic album. I can't quite exactly remember the details of the bonus tracks. I think they originated at the The Manor Studio, owned by Virgin, back in 1975 where I produced the Far East Family Band (with Masanori Takahashi, aka Kitaro) and it was possibly during a break when the guys were asleep. But I can't swear to it. There are an incredible amount of tapes which I have filled with music, which are temporarily stored until (Klaus Dieter) Muller digs them out again. When somebody asks me thirty years later, when, where and how I did one of these pieces, for me it's just like someone investigating a tax offence, "We have a receipt here from the petrol station. Where did you get petrol on August 7th 1997?" When even Muller doesn't know exactly when and where I did a piece of music, then no-one knows!"

Klaus Schulze

Artist: Klaus Schulze
P: 1977/ 2005 / 2016
Originally released in 1977, Body Love is Schulze´s first soundtrack. The famous pornography director, Lasse Braun, asked him to compose an original soundtrack to his movie by the same name. Schulze had great success overseas, and in 1977 the album became # 2 in the USA Billboard import charts.
Like Moondawn, former Wallenstein drummer Harald Grosskopf joins Klaus (mellotron, mini moog, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, polymoog, "Big" moog etc.). Harald plays drums on Stardancer (13:38), part of P.T.O. (27:12), and generally does a good job of accompanying Klaus into the vacuum of outer space. His drums by the way are put down a bit in the overall mix and are not not obtrusive whatsoever - this is very much an "electronic" album.
With the bonus track of 22 minute lenght: Lasse Braun