Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
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Artist: Klaus SchulzeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Music Label: Inside Out U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Satz: Ebene 23:23
- Satz: Gewitter Energy Rise Energy Collaps 5:39
- Satz: Exil Sils Maria 21:25
- Dungeon (bonus track) 24:00
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Free Music Review: This album taught me some things
Hit: 4 Stars
I haven't found any electronic music like Irrlicht. Only Cabaret Voltaire came close to making music that intrigues me as much as Klaus Schultze's first album.
On paper it should sound awful. There are no synthesizers, just a screwed up organ that only made a low bass note and lots of fuzzy noises. The orchestra was recorded by Schultze on a cheap cassette recorder about a mile away, and the conductor insisted on TALKING to the orchestra during the whole recording despite Schultze begging him to shut up. The rest of the noises are cheap percussion and whatever else Schultze found laying around that made noise.
All this junk comes together to make "sound" that's completely unique and unsettling. The one-note bass organ gets your attention immediately. The fuzzy noises make a swirl of sound that surrounds you and disappears into deep echoes without explanation. When the low-fi recording of the orchestra begins to play during this inexplicable racket, it sounds like a worn recorded artifact from an ancient civilization, back when dozens of people played music together on wooden instruments. The most surprising contradiction is that the incomprehensible yelling of the conductor doesn't ruin the recording but instead adds a feeling of extreme seriousness and importance to this strange music as if it were the only music of its kind left in the world. The noise and backwards recordings we hear on the subsequent "songs" are nearly as unsettling. Who would put all these odd sounds together? [Warning: Never listen to this music backwards. The actual sounds are very disappointing when heard in the right direction!]
What makes all this amateurish tomfoolery convincing is the outstanding quality of the final recording. The orchestra sounds like a faded broadcast, the individual noises are simple, but the album itself sounds excellent with all sounds reverberating in full stereo as if they had all been made by legitimate instruments in a first class production. Yes, enough echo can make almost anything sound interesting!
Irrlicht Poster
Irrlicht is the solo debut album from Klaus Schulze (originally released in 1972) and is an absolute masterpiece in cosmic, space music. Schulze omitted the use of synthetics for this recording, relying on organ with various electronic effects to produce an absolutely mesmerizing and minimalist body of sounds that transform the listener into a total abstracted world full of mysteries within its almost never-ending spiral. With no electronic pulse and rhythms, just a gloomy and distorted atmosphere this record can easily haunt and hypnotize. Considered by many to be his finest and purest body of work, the new and definitive Revisited Records version contains the 24 minute bonus track, Dungeon and comes packaged in a deluxe digipak with new liner notes and rare photos.Klaus Schulze first attracted attention as a member of the German progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream. Following the release of their debut LP, Electronic Meditation, he departed for a solo career. Klaus' recorded work typically features extended pieces sometimes filling an entire album built around computer-generated synthesizers and other specially programmed electronic effects. Klaus Schulze remains a cult figure in the United States, where the bulk of his prolific output has until now been available only through the import bins. He is widely considered an avant-garde mainstay as well as a founding father of both the new-age space music and electronica genres.
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