chris77550
Thanks for this tribute. I can’t realize that Klaus Schulze has passed away. His musical legacy will shine forever. Your song is shattering Christian.
It is with great sorrow and disbelief that I learnt today of the death of Klaus Schulze.
More than others, he is one of the musicians who accompanied my life, inspired me, made me dream...
His albums belong to the history of electronic music and the Berlin School, of which he was one of the founders, with Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, the Cosmic Jokers...
His concerts were as many milestones in my trajectory as a musician, and I had the chance to meet him several times, for interviews, in Paris as well as in his studio lost in the German Forest...
Klaus Schulze has introduced into electronic music a typically German romanticism, and sometimes Wagnerian (X, Mirage, Dune...), the hypnotic power of repetitive music, the modal inflections of orientalizing solos, the powerful underpinnings of the polymoog layers overflown by the crystalline sequences of his modular synthesizers...
From the VCS3, the Farfisa organ and the ARP 2600 to today virtual instruments, Klaus Schulze is forever a landmark in the history of electronic lutherie, from the heavy modular synthesizers to the samplers, the MIDI, the digital equipment...
When I heard about his death today, I couldn't find the words to express what I felt.
So I started to create a track for him, in his memory, as a testimony of immense admiration and gratitude.
It is not an imitation of the style in which he excelled so well.
It is my music, my sensitivity, my sound, my aesthetics.
This track of almost 15 minutes is full of melancholy and charged with a thousand luminous memories, inspired by the White Angel mastering his black machines.
I am one of the founding members of the French group LIGHTWAVE, which has been tracing a unique creative path in the field
of electronic and ambient music since the 1980s.
This Bandcamp page is dedicated to my solo work.
My music is at the crossroads of ambient music and "atmospheric classical" with a strong emphasis on sound design and climates.
One of the musicians who are a part of my daily life... The ambient vision, feeling and sound at their best.. I am so sad Harold Budd passed away... His music is alive, for ever... Christian Wittman
supported by 10 fans who also own “A Mirage will never die. For Klaus Schulze (1947-2022)”
I'm still buggering Olaf to release the book as an ebook, but I couldn't refrain from getting my hands on the accompanying album in which Michael Brückner does an excellent job in channelling the Schulze spirit ;-) Carsten Pieper
A compilation featuring exclusive tracks from ambient luminaries with all proceeds donated to Help Refugees/Choose Love and Sea-Watch NGOs. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 2, 2021