Ultimate KLAUS SCHULZE Reference Book '89 TINY PRINT RUN FOR FANS Obscure Unique

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This is an exhaustive, early reference book on the German/Krautrock/Space music artist Klaus Schulze. Printed in Berlin in 1989. 107 pages, illustrated, Biography section, Musician/Group tree, Autobiography, labels, instruments, bibliography, discographies, complete track name and title indexes, concerts, and more.

8-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches, softcover. Psychedelic purple cover.
Title: Klaus Schulze, The Works.
Compiled by Klaus D. Mueller. Berlin.
CONDITION: Cover has faded slightly in these 30+ years. Otherwise excellent condition.

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Klaus Schulze



Background information
Born    4 August 1947
Berlin, Allied-occupied Germany
Died    26 April 2022 (aged 74)

Genres   

    Electronic ambient kosmische krautrock trance

Occupation(s)    Musician, producer
Instrument(s)    Keyboards, synthesiser, sequencer, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, vocals
Years active    1969–2022
Labels    Ohr, Brain/PolyGram, Virgin, Metronome, Manikin Records, Island, IC, Inteam, ZYX, WEA, Rainhorse, Synthetic Symphony, FAX
Website    klaus-schulze.com

Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022)[1] was a German electronic music pioneer,[2] composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across six decades.


Early life

Schulze was born in Berlin in 1947. His father was a writer and his mother a ballet dancer.[3] After graduating from high school, he delivered telegrams and studied German at the Technical University of Berlin.[4] He and his wife Elfie had two sons, Maximilian and Richard.[5][3]
Career
1970s

In 1969, Schulze was the drummer of one of the early incarnations of Tangerine Dream—one of the most famous bands that got the nickname "Krautrock" in English speaking countries (others included Kraftwerk and Popul Vuh)—for their debut album Electronic Meditation.[6] Before 1969 he was a drummer in a band called Psy Free. He met Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream in the Zodiac Club in what was then West Berlin.[4] In 1970 he left this group to form Ash Ra Tempel[6] with Manuel Göttsching and Hartmut Enke. 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[5] 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.[7] His follow-up album, Cyborg, was similar but added the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser.[8]

Since this point, Schulze's career was the most prolific, such that he could claim more than 40 original albums to his name since Irrlicht. Highlights of these include 1975's Timewind, 1976's Moondawn (his first album to feature the Moog synthesizer), 1979's Dune, and 1995's double-album In Blue (which featured one long track called "Return to the Tempel" with electric guitar contributions from his friend Manuel Göttsching of Ash Ra Tempel). In 1976, he was drafted by Japanese percussionist and composer Stomu Yamashta to join his short-lived "supergroup" Go,[6] also featuring Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, and Al Di Meola. They released two studio albums (Go in 1976 and Go Too in 1977) and one live album (Go Live from Paris, 1976).[9]

Throughout the 1970s he followed closely in the footsteps of Tangerine Dream, albeit with far lighter sequencer lines and a more reflective, dreamy sheen, not unlike the ambient music of his contemporary Brian Eno.[10] On occasions he would also compose film scores, including horror and thriller movies such as Barracuda (1978) and Next of Kin (1982).[10][11] Some of his lighter albums are appreciated by new-age music fans, despite the fact that Schulze has always denied connections to this genre.[12] By mid-decade, with the release of Timewind and Moondawn, his style transformed from Krautrock to Berlin School.[13]

Schulze had a more organic sound than other electronic artists of the time. Often he would throw in decidedly non-electronic sounds, such as acoustic guitar and a male operatic voice in Blackdance, or a cello in Dune (1979) and Trancefer. Schulze developed a Minimoog technique that sounds uncannily like an electric guitar. Schulze often takes German events as a starting point for his compositions, a notable example being on his 1978 album "X" (the title signifying it was his tenth album), subtitled "Six Musical Biographies", a reference to such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. His use of the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried is indicative of his interest in Richard Wagner, a clear influence on some albums like the aforementioned Timewind.[14]

Schulze built a record studio in Hambühren, Germany.[3]
1980s

In the 1980s Schulze started using digital instruments besides the usual analog synthesizers, and his work accordingly became less experimental and more accessible. Although the switch to using digital equipment is audible in the style of Dig It (1980), it was not until the release of Trancefer (1981) that the shift in style became evident.[15]

This newer style can also be found in Schulze's next release Audentity.[16] Both "Cellistica" and "Spielglocken" are composed in a similar sequencer-based style as on Trancefer, but this is certainly not the case of all of Audentity's tracks; indeed, "Sebastian im Traum" hints towards the operatic style to be found in some of Schulze's much later works. The predominance of sequencing can also be found in the follow-up live album Dziękuję Poland Live '83,[17] although many of its tracks are re-workings of those to be found on Audentity. Schulze's next studio-based album was Angst (soundtrack to the namesake 1983 film).[18] The cold yet haunting electronic rhythms generate an alienated atmosphere.[19] Typical are the Fairlight synth and Linn electronic drums sounds.[20]

Another highlight of this era was En=Trance with the dreamy cut "FM Delight".[21] The album Miditerranean Pads marked the beginning of very complex percussion arrangements that continued through the next two decades.[22]

In 1989, German band Alphaville released their album The Breathtaking Blue, on which Klaus Schulze was both a contributing musician and the album's producer.[23]
1990s

Starting with Beyond Recall, the first half of the 1990s was his "sample" period, when Schulze used a wide variety of prerecorded sounds such as screeching birds and sensuous female moans in his studio albums and live performances.[24] Sampling heavily died down with his 1995 album In Blue.[24] The decade also saw the release of copious amounts of previously unreleased material, of varying quality, in several limited-edition boxed sets.[25]
2000s
Klaus Schulze, portrait

In 2005 he began re-releasing his classic solo and Wahnfried albums with bonus tracks of unreleased material recorded at roughly the same time as the original works. In the latter part of the decade, Schulze produced albums and staged numerous live appearances with Lisa Gerrard.[26]
2010s

Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010 was Schultze's fortieth album, and its release in September 2010 marked the beginning of his fifth decade as a solo musician.[27] The Japan concerts were to be his last live performances.[28]

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.[29] After a hiatus of several years, he returned to the studio in 2018 for another album, Silhouettes. Much of the album was recorded in a single take.[30]
2020s

Schulze died on 26 April 2022 following a long illness.[31] His final album, Deus Arrakis, was released on 1 July 2022.[30]
Richard Wahnfried

Richard Wahnfried, then simply Wahnfried after 1993, is the longtime and only real alias for Klaus Schulze – originally a pseudonym, later an official side project name. Seven albums were released under this name between 1979 and 1997.[24]

The main characteristics of the Wahnfried albums (as opposed to Schulze's regular works) are:

    Often being oriented towards more mainstream genres (some would say "more commercial"), such as rock, dance, techno, and trance.[24]
    Always allowing for collaborative and less electronic albums, with known or unknown guest musicians performing along with Schulze's synths.[32]

The pseudonym's etymology stems from Schulze's love for Richard Wagner:

    Richard, evidently from Wagner's first name. Richard is also the name of Schulze's first son.
    Wahnfried ("Peace from delusion and/or madness", in German), from the name Wagner gave to his villa in Bayreuth (and where he was later buried).[24]

In his 1975 album Timewind (four years before the first alias use), Schulze had already named a track "Wahnfried 1883" (in reference to Wagner's death and burial in his Wahnfried's garden in 1883). The other track on Timewind is called "Bayreuth Return".[33] After 1993, the albums are simply credited to "Wahnfried", and namedrop Schulze ("featuring Klaus Schulze", "Produced by Klaus Schulze").[34]

"Wahnfried" is the only known alias of Schulze (albeit on the 1998 Tribute to Klaus Schulze album, among 10 other artists, Schulze contributed one track barely hidden behind the "Schulzendorfer Groove Orchester" pseudonym).[35]
Discography
Albums

Schulze's concert performances are original compositions recorded live and thus listed as albums. An intensive reissue program of Schulze CDs began in 2005, with most releases having bonus tracks, and sometimes additional discs. They are published by the label Revisited Records (a division of German company InsideOut Music), and distributed by SPV.[36]

Source:[37]
Year     Title     Reissued
1972     Irrlicht     2006
1973     Cyborg     2006
1974     Blackdance     2007
1975     Picture Music     2005
1975     Timewind     2006
1976     Moondawn     2005
1977     Body Love (soundtrack)     2005
1977     Mirage     2005
1977     Body Love Vol. 2     2007
1978     X     2005
1979     Dune     2005
1980     ...Live... (live)     2007
1980     Dig It     2005
1981     Trancefer     2006
1983     Audentity     2005
1983     Dziękuję Poland Live '83 (live)     2006
1984     Angst (soundtrack)     2005
1985     Inter*Face     2006
1986     Dreams     2005
1988     En=Trance     2005
1990     Miditerranean Pads     2005
1990     The Dresden Performance (live)    
1991     Beyond Recall    
1992     Royal Festival Hall Vol. 1 (live)    
1992     Royal Festival Hall Vol. 2 (live)    
1993     The Dome Event (live)    
1994     Le Moulin de Daudet (soundtrack)     2005
1994     Goes Classic    
1994     Totentag    
1994     Das Wagner Desaster Live (live)     2005
1995     In Blue     2005
1996     Are You Sequenced? (live)     2006
1997     Dosburg Online     2006
2001     Live @ KlangArt (live)     2008
2005     Moonlake    
2007     Kontinuum    
2008     Farscape (with Lisa Gerrard)    
2008     Rheingold (live, with Lisa Gerrard)    
2009     Dziękuję Bardzo (live, with Lisa Gerrard)    
2010     Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010 (live)    
2013     Shadowlands    
2013–14     Big in Europe (live, with Lisa Gerrard)    
2014     Stars Are Burning (live)    
2017     Eternal: The 70th Birthday Edition    
2018     Silhouettes    
2019     Next of Kin (soundtrack)    
2022     Deus Arrakis[38]    
Singles
Year     Title     Reissued
1985     Macksy[39]     Released as maxi single only
1994     Conquest of Paradise[40]     Partially reissued on La Vie Electronique 14
(Richard) Wahnfried albums

Composed by Schulze and performed with guest artists under alias Richard Wahnfried or later just Wahnfried:[41]
Year     Title     Reissued
1979     Time Actor     2011
1981     Tonwelle     2012
1984     Megatone     2021
1986     Miditation     2012
1994     Trancelation     2019
1996     Trance Appeal     2007
1997     Drums 'n' Balls (The Gancha Dub)     2006
2000     Trance 4 Motion[1]     2018

Notes
    ^ This album was originally issued as the third disc of Contemporary Works I.

Boxed sets

Between 1993 and 2002 Klaus Schulze released several limited edition boxed sets, all composed of non-album material.[25]
Year     Title     Discs     Copies
1993     Silver Edition     10     2000
1995     Historic Edition     10     2000
1997     Jubilee Edition     25     1000
2000     The Ultimate Edition     501    
2000     Contemporary Works I     10    
2002     Contemporary Works II     52     2002

Notes
    ^1 Collecting Silver, Historic, and Jubilee sets, with additional 5 discs.
    ^2 A bonus sixth disc included with the first 333 copies.

Reissues from sets

Sources:[42][43][44][45]
Year     Title     From
2005     Vanity of Sounds     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2006     The Crime of Suspense     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2006     Ballett 1     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2006     Ballett 2     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2007     Ballett 3     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2007     Ballett 4     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2008     Virtual Outback     Contemporary Works II (2002)
2009     La Vie Electronique 1     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2009     La Vie Electronique 2     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2009     La Vie Electronique 3     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2009     La Vie Electronique 4     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2010     La Vie Electronique 5     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2010     La Vie Electronique 6     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2010     La Vie Electronique 7     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2010     La Vie Electronique 8     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2011     La Vie Electronique 9     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2011     La Vie Electronique 10     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2012     La Vie Electronique 11     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2012     La Vie Electronique 12     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2013     La Vie Electronique 13     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2014     La Vie Electronique 14     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2014     La Vie Electronique 15     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2015     La Vie Electronique 16     The Ultimate Edition (2000)
2016     Privée     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2016     Another Green Mile     Contemporary Works II (2002)
2017     Androgyn     Contemporary Works II (2002)
2017     Ultimate Docking     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2018     Trance 4 Motion     Contemporary Works I (2000)
2018     Cocooning     Contemporary Works II (2002)
2019     Timbres of Ice     Contemporary Works II (2002)
"The Dark Side of the Moog"

"The Dark Side of the Moog"[24] is a Klaus Schulze collaboration with Pete Namlook (joined also by Bill Laswell on volumes four to seven).[46] Each title is a distortion of Pink Floyd song and album titles.

Source:[47]
Year     Title     Pink Floyd Title
1994     The Dark Side of the Moog: Wish You Were There     "Wish You Were Here"
1994     The Dark Side of the Moog II: A Saucerful of Ambience     "A Saucerful of Secrets"
1995     The Dark Side of the Moog III: Phantom Heart Brother     "Atom Heart Mother"
1996     The Dark Side of the Moog IV: Three Pipers at the Gates of Dawn     The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
1996     The Dark Side of the Moog V: Psychedelic Brunch     "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
1997     The Dark Side of the Moog VI: The Final DAT     "The Final Cut"
1998     The Dark Side of the Moog VII: Obscured by Klaus     "Obscured by Clouds"
1999     The Dark Side of the Moog VIII: Careful With the AKS, Peter     "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
2002     The Dark Side of the Moog: The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog    
2002     The Dark Side of the Moog IX: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Mother     "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
"Atom Heart Mother"
2005     The Dark Side of the Moog X: Astro Know Me Domina     "Astronomy Domine"
2008     The Dark Side of the Moog XI: The Heart of Our Nearest Star     "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"

The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog is a compilation album, containing excerpts from the first eight volumes. The series was announced as officially concluded with volume ten when on 21 March 2005 at 14:52 CET, Pete Namlook sold the Big Moog synthesizer that was the symbol of the series. Volume eleven appeared on Namlook's website on 15 April 2008 (and was included in a complete box set).[48]
Collaborations

Source:[49]
Year     Title     Collaborator
1970     Electronic Meditation     Tangerine Dream
1971     Ash Ra Tempel     Ash Ra Tempel
1973     Tarot     Walter Wegmüller
1973     Join Inn     Ash Ra Tempel
1973     Lord Krishna von Goloka     Sergius Golowin
1974     The Cosmic Jokers     The Cosmic Jokers
1974     Planeten Sit-In     The Cosmic Jokers
1974     Galactic Supermarket     The Cosmic Jokers
1974     Sci Fi Party     The Cosmic Jokers
1974     Gilles Zeitschiff     The Cosmic Jokers
1974     Planet of Man     Code III
1976     Go     Go
1976     Go Live from Paris     Go
1977     Go Too     Go
1979     French Skyline     Earthstar
1984     Aphrica     Rainer Bloss and Ernst Fuchs
1984     Drive Inn     Rainer Bloss
1984     Transfer Station Blue     Michael Shrieve and Kevin Shrieve
1987     Babel     Andreas Grosser
2000     Friendship     Ash Ra Tempel
2000     Gin Rosé at the Royal Festival Hall     Ash Ra Tempel
2009     Come Quietly     Lisa Gerrard
2013     The Schulze–Schickert Session     Günter Schickert
2021     Grains of Sand from The Dune Sketchbook[50]     Hans Zimmer
Promos

    2003 Andromeda[51]
    2004 Ion[52]
    2009 Hommage à Polska (with Lisa Gerrard)[53]

Compilations

    1979 Rock On Brain[54]
    1980 Star Action[55]
    1988 History (for promotional use, limited to 1,000 copies)[56]
    1991 2001[57]
    1994 The Essential 72–93[58]
    1999 Trailer[59]

See also

    Berlin School of electronic music
    Kosmische Musik
    Urs Amann, illustrator of Schulze's early records