Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music… Read Full Bio ↴Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician who also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic band Tangerine Dream as well as co-founding Ash Ra Tempel before a pioneering and prolific solo career of 60+ albums (totalling 110+ CDs) across six decades.
In 1969, Klaus Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album Electronic Meditation. In 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching. In 1971, he chose again to leave a newly-formed group after only one album, this time to mount a solo career.
In 1972, Schulze released his debut album Irrlicht with organ and a recording of an orchestra filtered almost beyond recognition. Despite the lack of synthesizers, this proto-ambient work is regarded as a milestone in electronic music. The follow up, Cyborg, was similar but added the EMS Synthi A synthesizer. Some highlights of his early career are Moondawn (1976), Mirage (1977) and Dune (1979). He often took aspects of German culture and history as a starting point in his compositions, particularly on his album "X" (the title signifying it was his tenth album) in 1978 which was subtitled 'Six Musical Biographies,' including such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His use of the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried indicates his interest in Richard Wagner, which also informs other albums of his music, notably Timewind.
Throughout the 1970s he worked mostly in an improvised musical style similar to the above-mentioned Tangerine Dream, albeit with lighter sequencer lines and a more introspective, cosmic edge to pieces that also tended to develop more gradually and were of a longer duration, sometimes in excess of 30 minutes.
Klaus Schulze had a more eclectic sound than other electronic artists of the time. Often he would make use of non-electronic sounds such as acoustic guitar and a male operatic voice in Blackdance , or a cello in Dune and Trancefer . Schulze developed a Minimoog technique that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar, which is quite impressive in concert.
In the 1980s Schulze moved from analog to digital instruments, and his work accordingly became less experimental and more accessible. A highlight of this era was En=Trance with the dreamy cut 'FM Delight.' The album Miditerranean Pads marked the beginning of very complex percussion arrangements that continued into the next two decades.
Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was a period when Schulze used a large sonic pallette of samples – such as screeching birds or sensuous female moans – in both his studio albums and live performances. The decade also saw the release of copious amounts of previously unreleased material, of varying quality, in several limited-edition boxed sets. Some live recordings were discovered on pristine but forgotten reels of tape which had been used to provide "echo" in concerts.
Schulze began incorporating elements of jazz and classical music, playing a more contemporary, techno/dance music, as well as creating an opera. Since the start of the millennium he has begun gradually re-releasing his classic solo albums, each containing bonus tracks of unreleased material, dating from same period as each of the original albums.
With the release of his fortieth album (Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010) in September 2010, Schulze entered his fifth decade as a solo musician. His next album, Shadowlands, was released in February 2013, quickly to be followed by the release of The Schulze–Schickert Session 1975, a rare long-unreleased collaboration, in March 2013.
In 1969, Klaus Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream for their debut album Electronic Meditation. In 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel with Manuel Göttsching. In 1971, he chose again to leave a newly-formed group after only one album, this time to mount a solo career.
In 1972, Schulze released his debut album Irrlicht with organ and a recording of an orchestra filtered almost beyond recognition. Despite the lack of synthesizers, this proto-ambient work is regarded as a milestone in electronic music. The follow up, Cyborg, was similar but added the EMS Synthi A synthesizer. Some highlights of his early career are Moondawn (1976), Mirage (1977) and Dune (1979). He often took aspects of German culture and history as a starting point in his compositions, particularly on his album "X" (the title signifying it was his tenth album) in 1978 which was subtitled 'Six Musical Biographies,' including such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His use of the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried indicates his interest in Richard Wagner, which also informs other albums of his music, notably Timewind.
Throughout the 1970s he worked mostly in an improvised musical style similar to the above-mentioned Tangerine Dream, albeit with lighter sequencer lines and a more introspective, cosmic edge to pieces that also tended to develop more gradually and were of a longer duration, sometimes in excess of 30 minutes.
Klaus Schulze had a more eclectic sound than other electronic artists of the time. Often he would make use of non-electronic sounds such as acoustic guitar and a male operatic voice in Blackdance , or a cello in Dune and Trancefer . Schulze developed a Minimoog technique that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar, which is quite impressive in concert.
In the 1980s Schulze moved from analog to digital instruments, and his work accordingly became less experimental and more accessible. A highlight of this era was En=Trance with the dreamy cut 'FM Delight.' The album Miditerranean Pads marked the beginning of very complex percussion arrangements that continued into the next two decades.
Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was a period when Schulze used a large sonic pallette of samples – such as screeching birds or sensuous female moans – in both his studio albums and live performances. The decade also saw the release of copious amounts of previously unreleased material, of varying quality, in several limited-edition boxed sets. Some live recordings were discovered on pristine but forgotten reels of tape which had been used to provide "echo" in concerts.
Schulze began incorporating elements of jazz and classical music, playing a more contemporary, techno/dance music, as well as creating an opera. Since the start of the millennium he has begun gradually re-releasing his classic solo albums, each containing bonus tracks of unreleased material, dating from same period as each of the original albums.
With the release of his fortieth album (Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010) in September 2010, Schulze entered his fifth decade as a solo musician. His next album, Shadowlands, was released in February 2013, quickly to be followed by the release of The Schulze–Schickert Session 1975, a rare long-unreleased collaboration, in March 2013.
Friedemann Bach
Klaus Schulze Lyrics
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Bayreuth Return I'm riding the wind, don't need your request You'd never in…
Klaustrophony Klaus schulze: Klaustrophony Last night I lay sleeping Upon…
Pain Bu, sei que te assusto, Bu Você ja me conhece Majin…
Shadows Of Ignorance Face to the future. The past will cling and gather to…
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Jens Dittrich
" X " klingt so " barock - mäßig ".
(Paßt natürlich wun - der - bar zu den berühmten Persönlichkeiten, die er musikalisch ausdrückte mit dieser Musik !!!!)
Davon hätte ich mir mehr gewünscht..
FRIEDEMANN BACH hier ist im Übrigen das drittbeste Stück des Albums..
... Es ist wohl " fast klar ", welche Stücke Platz 1 und 2 belegen.. 😉😉
( KLEIST ist das beste. )
Eine fantastische Arbeit.
" X " ist ganz, ganz, ganz, ganz große Musik von ihm..
Und in den Titeln, den musikalischen Biographien, in dieser Musik überhaupt, schwingt immer das menschliche Leiden mit, die ganzen... na ja, die individuellen Einzelschicksale... das Leid des menschlichen Seins insgesamt....
.... aber vielleicht kann das nur ein Deutscher so nachempfinden, weiß ich nicht.. 🙂🙂
Luke Bingus
This track gives me the most uniquely cosmic feeling, like almost like gazing into a bizarre alternate universe or reality. Its kinda nightmarish, but spellbinding as hell.
sebastian osses
por fin volver a escuchar esta pieza de nuevo del hijo de JS Bach para volver a sumergirme en ella.
Jens Dittrich
" X " klingt so " barock - mäßig ".
(Paßt natürlich wun - der - bar zu den berühmten Persönlichkeiten, die er musikalisch ausdrückte mit dieser Musik !!!!)
Davon hätte ich mir mehr gewünscht..
FRIEDEMANN BACH hier ist im Übrigen das drittbeste Stück des Albums..
... Es ist wohl " fast klar ", welche Stücke Platz 1 und 2 belegen.. 😉😉
( KLEIST ist das beste. )
Eine fantastische Arbeit.
" X " ist ganz, ganz, ganz, ganz große Musik von ihm..
Und in den Titeln, den musikalischen Biographien, in dieser Musik überhaupt, schwingt immer das menschliche Leiden mit, die ganzen... na ja, die individuellen Einzelschicksale... das Leid des menschlichen Seins insgesamt....
.... aber vielleicht kann das nur ein Deutscher so nachempfinden, weiß ich nicht.. 🙂🙂
Jens Dittrich
ICH KORRIGIERE MICH !!!
Ich habe kürzlich die LANGE VERSION von
' GEORG TRAKL ' gehört - ZUM 1. MAL !!
- - Ich wußte gar nicht, daß es Die gibt: Ich kannte immer nur die 5.23 min. - Version. - -
Nein, ich finde jetzt, ' TRAKL ' ist das beste Stück.. 🥰💖🌿🐞⚘
Antonio Di Vito
Love.
R Gray
Undeniably deep and distant .......
Zach Haywood
Man I'm seeing you on every KS video! Good to know I'm not the only one completely obsessed with his great work!
Jennifer Rose
The music sounds like a horror movie soundtrack. I wonder if it was actually used in a movie.
Chris Neufeld
A snippet of it was used in a logo for Germany film company Atlas International.
Jens Dittrich
@Klaus' Monkie Town
Das wußte ich nicht.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks ! 🙂🙂🙂 😊