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2021-01-14 10:33:00
Genres converge in this legendary album dedicated to Richard Wagner
[…] Riley. Klaus Schulze's first solo album Irrlich was released in 1972 and subtitled Quadrophonische Symphonie für Orchester und E-Maschinen (Quadraphonic Symphony for Orchestra and Electronic Machines). It was recorded with a modified electric organ and a heavily processed Colloquium Musica Orchestra, which was the house orchestra of the then hot-bed of student activism the Freie Universität Berlin. Klaus Schulze's fifth solo composition Timewind released in 1975, is his best-known album. This tribute to Wagner was, like Jean-Michel Jarre's legendary Oxygene, a essentially a home project created with early synthesizers, organ and keyboards recorded in two hours on a 2-track Revox. But don't let that put you off: the current CD transfer sounds magnificently post-Wagnerian even through low-res YouTube. In his Timewind sleeve essay Klaus Schulze tells how he received a Grand Prix du Disque International from l'Académie Charles Cros in France […]
2021-01-02 09:44:17
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Behind the piano by Sleepy songs
2019-12-26 18:23:30
[…] me having fun jamming on the piano, experimenting with different sounds and moods. I was a shy kid, and the piano was a calm place to try out emotions that were too complicated in “real” life. I can’t remember making my first song, but I remember having fun recording long jams on tape to my friends. What are your favorite artists in this “piano genre”?My first “piano” artist idol was the french keyboardguru Jean Michel Jarre. Later I came to like great pianists like Keith Jarret, Chick Corea and Michel Camilio. In the last ten years, I’ve been increasingly more and more fascinated with a more minimalistic expression like Jan Johansson’s “Jazz på Svenska”. I haven’t listened to that many pianists in the last couple of years. As I’m easily affected by other people, I needed a break to strengthen the connection to my own musical expression. Is there one […]
2019-08-13 13:06:00
Sound is what matters most in classical music
[…] My search for a domestic Elbphilharmonie produced astonishing results. Upgrading from the undoubtedly excellent but venerable Arcam Alpha 10 to the Rotel RA-1592 produced tangible marginal gains. Predictably orchestral showstoppers such as Mercury's truly iconic 1959 Dorati/LSO Firebird leave visitors slack jawed in amazement, and, of course, purely electronic sounds from Jean-Michel Jarre and others are deeply (bass deeply) impressive. But unexpected was the improvement reproducing solo instruments. Pianos are arguably the most difficult test for an audio system, and well-recorded solo piano discs, for example Frederic Chiu's Gurdjieff/Hartmann recital and Randy Weston's Marrakech in the Cool of the Evening sound almost like the real thing, while listening to violinist Sayaki Shoji's Bach & Reger mixdisc takes you right there into the acoustic of la Chapelle de […]