Klaus Schulze - Mirage
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Artist: Klaus SchulzeEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Inside Out U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Velvet Voyage (28:16)
- Crystal Lake (29:15)
- In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede? (19:39)
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Free Music Review: Track 1: Different Mix!
Hit: 5 Stars
Everybody has described this magnificent album, but nobody pointed out an important detail:
I.
The first track Velvet Voyage is a different mix than the original version! The original is even more desolate, oppressive, and wintery. Like a real white-out. There's even a few faint sounds of vocoder during the intro, giving the music an alien beginning.
This new mix is - as far as Velvet Voyage goes - a more lively version, different sounds appear more clearly, specially after the 13 minute mark. The new mix of Velvet Voyage made it closer to Crystal Lake than the original was.
So one could say that while the original Velvet Voyage is a real white-out, an oppressive Antarctic blizzard, this new version is like an Icelandic winter landscape. There are more colours and sounds.
I'm not sure, but I think I prefer the original version of the album. It's a shame I sold it before buying the new version. Now I want it back.
II.
Track 2, Crystal Lake, seems to have been left untouched. Sound quality does seem to have improved, which is very welcome considering Mirage is one of Schulze's most perfect masterpieces.
III.
The bonus track doesn't add anything new to the album. It's just OK. The same can be said about many bonus tracks in these Schulze re-releases. So if you are considering buying one of these new editions and you already have the old version, make sure you won't regret spending the extra cash.
Timewind for example is good, the sound quality improves noticeably, but the extra CD didn't do much for me; it's pretty much just more of the same, like the Mirage bonus. An ideal bonus for Timewind would be the genius live performance that came as a misplaced bonus in the new edition of Cyborg.
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As a former member of both Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Temple, multi instrumentalist Klaus Schulze is cited as one of the founders of contemporary electronic music and soundscape artists. His solo records go well beyond the "krautrock" vein and can be considered some of the finest of synthesized and experimental music coming from Europe in the 70's, 80's and well beyond.Mirage, initially released in 1977, is often cited as one of Schulze's best albums. The album is a strange pastoral landscape creating a frozen wonderland with vast shifts in color and texture, rather than the layered melodic and harmonic structures of Schulze's previous albums. Mirage consists of two main pieces, Velvet Voyage and Crystal Lake, each broken down into six separate and chilling movements.
The previously unreleased 20 minute epic In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede? has been added as a bonus track to the new edition.
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