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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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@Snake_luKasczeSuhl_EoE_WoW
@@philipclayberg4928
Hi ! 🙋♂️
DREAMS, EN=TRANCE, TRANCEFER, BLACKDANCE & IN BLUE gehören auch
" ganz nach oben ", finde ich.
Auch das Stück ' DUNE ' oder auch
' DRESDEN TWO ' & ' SYNTHASY '
(auf DIG IT).. aber TIMEWIND ist immer auf Platz 1. 😊😊🥰
Grüße 🙋♂️🙋♂️ 🧡💛💚💙💜
@Snake_luKasczeSuhl_EoE_WoW
@@philipclayberg4928
Da haben Sie VOLLKOMMEN Recht !! 🙂🙂🙂😊😊🤗🥰🥰
Vor allem bei ' GEORG TRAKL ' -
d a f e h l t e j a z u v o r a l l e s . . !!!
Und ich habe jetzt erst mitbekommen, daß auch DIESEM " guten Stück " etwa eine halbe Minute fehlt !!!
- W A R U M ???
Ebenso bei ' D U N E ' !!!
( Ich kannte das nur in der 29.56 min. - Fassung.. 🤷♂️ )
@CarolanNathan
inspirational music so i wrote a poem for it...
painted words by lily****
shadows shadows everywhere
red flame follows
burning all in its path~~~
shadows made of air
invisible
once water burned by fire
turned~~~
air lifts into clouds
shadows there becomes
red tinged at dusk
high in sky~~~
sun burns shadows into haze
over mountain tops appears
or is it mountains of the moon~~~
sun
moon
shadows
air
into nothing-ness all will be
as will thee and me~~~
and so it is...
@peterclasen23
Einer seiner Besten LP. Top Musik ich mag die Musik von ihm RIP Klaus du warst der Beste
@philipclayberg4928
Agreed. "X" and "Mirage" are my favorite Klaus Schulze albums. I also like "Timewind", "Moondawn", "Body Love, Vol. 1", "Body Love, Vol. 2", "... Live ...", "The Historic Edition", and most of the rest, but just not as much as "X" and "Mirage".
@Snake_luKasczeSuhl_EoE_WoW
@@philipclayberg4928
Hi ! 🙋♂️
DREAMS, EN=TRANCE, TRANCEFER, BLACKDANCE & IN BLUE gehören auch
" ganz nach oben ", finde ich.
Auch das Stück ' DUNE ' oder auch
' DRESDEN TWO ' & ' SYNTHASY '
(auf DIG IT).. aber TIMEWIND ist immer auf Platz 1. 😊😊🥰
Grüße 🙋♂️🙋♂️ 🧡💛💚💙💜
@emmanueldupont8713
I saw Klaus Schulze in the early 80s, what you see on this pic is what you glimpse from time to time in concert him in white overhaul sitting on some furs and surrounded by his synthesiser most of us where lying smoking dope and enjoying, not expensive either, very good stuff really 😏🙏
@rickowenkennedy
...listening to this in late May 2022 for the first time (with headphones). I didn't know anything about Klaus. What an unexpected treat. Magnificent. Thank You for Posting.
@Snake_luKasczeSuhl_EoE_WoW
IMMER ...... - immer, immer, immer, immer, immer, immer immer, immer, immer ... (immer = ♾) wieder fantastisch !!!!!!
Aaaabsolut !!!! (Absolutely.) 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@CarlosGonzalez-yv1tg
I will never forget the day in 1978 when I listened to this song for the first time. I was blown away and since then I've listened to this genius almost daily.
@cromlechs
Todo el album en si ...es una pieza maestre entre otros albums!!!!!
@georgesnow2068
Best Song of the Album - still love listen to it... since nearly 46 Years ...
@Mhg01jw00
R.I.P Klaus Schulze, vielen Dank mit dir auf der Reise in das musikalische Kosmos.