KLAUS SCHULZE - BLUE STATION 1984

 

KLAUS  SCHULZE - MICHAEL and KEVIN SHRIVE - BLUE STATION  1984.

Kevin Shrieve

guitar, Wurlitzer, producer, writer

Klaus Schulze

synthesizer, sampler, engineer, writer

Michael Shrieve

drums, electronic drums, timbales, writer, producer

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KLAUS SCHULZE  - 1972  IRRLICHT

 

KLAUS  SCHULZE  -  1972  IRRLICHT.

Klaus Schulze’s was one of the few remaining pioneers of electronic music who emerged out of Germany at the start of the 1970s. One of the leading lights of the Berlin school of krautrock, Schulze spent his teens and early 20s playing guitar and drums in various rock bands before plunging into Germany’s avant-garde scene in the late ’60s. Co-founding Ash Ra Tempel with guitarist/keyboardist Manuel Göttsching and making an appearance on Tangerine Dream’s first LP, Electronic Meditation, Schulze played drums on both, his pulsing beat at once far removed from and a precursor to the music that he’d make when he switched to keyboards and synthesizer.

Despite a generous collaborative spirit that would serve him through his entire working life, Schulze was too restless an artist to get bogged down in the more democratic demands of a band, and he soon struck out on his own to focus on a solo career across which he would amass more than 50 albums and equally as many archival discs of compositions that would remain on the cutting-room floor. His solo debut, 1972’s Irrlicht, was made without synthesizers, but soon he adopted VCS 3 and Moog equipment to explore new realms of sound.

the German electronic pioneers conceptualized music in wildly heterodox ways. For Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk, machine music perfectly conveyed the dehumanizing effect of consumerism. Tangerine Dream set controls for the heart of the sun and fully decoupled psychedelia from the gravity of blues-based rock structures. Popol Vuh would devise a kind of neo-primitive ethnographic folk that they would eventually take back to traditional instrumentation.

Schulze released several albums under the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried as a reference to Richard Wagner, and even based a number of albums and performances around the 19th-century composer’s famous operas.

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