Trance Appeal
Klaus Schulze
Revisited (Germany), 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 7822
EAN: 0693723788227
UPC: 693723788227
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Recorded--as a handful of albums throughout his career were--under the alias Richard Wahnfried, TRANCE APPEAL finds synthesizer and electro-percussion maestro Klaus Schulze in fine form. Refreshingly, the album's 11 tracks hold up years later and sound only marginally like the contemporary trance or kitchen-sink electronica of its late '90s contemporaries. TRANCE APPEAL bears the post-psychedelic marks and inventive musicality that have made all his best work from Tangerine Dream to his '70s solo masterpieces so enriching and unique. Whereas the cold air of modernity pervaded late-'90s electronica, Schulze as Wahnfried argues that even at its most digital, electronic music can be warm, human, and organic.
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Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze is the living essence of electronic music, having both practically invented it in the 1970s, and embodying many of its signifiers: Teutonic, intellectual, and highly experimental. A founding member of the influential electronic group Tangerine Dream, Schulz left after one album to pursue other avenues of expression, first with Kraut-rockers Ash Ra Tempel and then as a prolific and enduring solo artist. His explorations in synthesizer rock have yielded several classic albums and have influenced the New Age and Trance genres.
