Klaus Schulze - Virtual Outback
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Artist: Klaus SchulzeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: REVISITED RECORDS
Soundtracks:
- The Theme: The Rhodes Elegy
- Chinese Ears (bonus track)
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Free Music Review: Schulze rewards the patient - invest an hour of your time
Hit: 5 Stars
This is about the 10th KS album I have bought and it is my personal favourite, topping the playcount on my portable device by a healthy margin. At 65 minutes the Rhodes Elegy track takes you on a journey full of atmosphere and with much to reward the patient listener. To me it is a one-movement symphonic masterpiece which, although you can tune in and out of, is best played when you are ready to listen with full concentration.
It has a slow build up, with only a few notes played over an atmospheric backdrop, until a cor-anglais theme starts at 1:30. The first percussive sounds eventually are added at about 5:00 and for the next 8 or 9 minutes these continue until strings replace the cor anglais. This catchy rhythm continues for a while, but is never too obtrusive so as to over-ride the ambient sound.
At about 21 minutes the rhythm stops, but the gentle ambient sound continues, this time combined with various voices until near the half way mark of the piece whereupon the woodwinds return.
Then, just as the music appears to be ebbing away to a gentle close at around 29:53, the surprise masterstroke ( and personal highlight of the entire piece ) a haunting, highly distorted guitar is introduced and plays solo for a few mintues until combined with a somewhat more energetic percussion backing which then continues for a good while.
At around 42 minutes the groove continues but the guitar subsides, to be replaced by keyboards played over a gentle choral backdrop.
At 49 minutes the piece begins its winding down, with the ending of the rhythm and for the next 8 or so minutes various distorted string or guitar sounds are played over the ambience, until the groove returns for it's final farewell. The piece ends quietly and you return to the drudgery of your real world.
This piece takes you wherever you want to go, but my choice is by the ocean at night. Listening to the sound of the waves, looking up into the night sky lit up by various comets, shooting stars and constellations, wondering where heaven is.
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