''Timewind'' is the fifth album by

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers ...

. It was originally released in 1975, and is Schulze's first solo album to use a sequencer, something which would become a mainstay of nearly all of his work going forward. It features cover art by Urs Amann, who also provided artwork for several other Schulze albums. ''Timewind'' was awarded the

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of L'Académie Charles Cros in 1976, and in 2006 it was the twenty-second Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records, with an extra disc of bonus material.

Overview

Like many of his other albums, ''Timewind'' contains only two songs, each taking up an entire side of a vinyl record. Both track titles are references to the nineteenth-century composer

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

Bayreuth Bayreuth ( or ; High Franconian German, Upper Franconian: Bareid, ) is a Town#Germany, town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains. The town's roots date back to 11 ...

is the Bavarian town where Wagner had an opera house built for the first performance of his massive

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Wahnfried Wahnfried was the name given by Richard Wagner to his villa in Bayreuth. The name is a German compound of (delusion, madness) and (peace, freedom). History Financed by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the house was constructed from 1872 to 1874 unde ...

is the name of Wagner's home in Bayreuth in the grounds of which he was buried in 1883. "Wahnfried" is also a name used by Schulze himself for several albums. Compositionally, the album represents somewhat of a turning point for Schulze, marking the start of his foray into what would later be termed the

Berlin school of electronic music Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electroni ...

, or simply Berlin School. "Bayreuth Return" was recorded on two-track equipment in one take, and is essentially "live in the studio". Its rhythmic basis is a single

analog sequencer An analog sequencer is a music sequencer constructed from analog electronics, invented in the first half of the 20th century. Raymond Scott designed and constructed some of the first electro-mechanical music sequencers in the 1940s. The first ...

pattern, transposed and manipulated in real time.

String synthesizer A string synthesizer or string machine is a synthesizer designed to make sounds similar to those of a string section. Dedicated string synthesizers occupied a specific musical instrument niche between electronic organs and general-purpose synthes ...

chords, improvised melodies, and complex sound effects are the remaining elements. "Wahnfried 1883", in contrast, is a slow piece that was composed and multitracked. Its main building blocks are layers of slow, shimmering pads and lines. The kaleidoscopic key changes without obvious 'home key' may be seen as a musical nod to Wagner. An excerpt of the graphic performance score of "Wahnfried 1883" appears on the back sleeve of the original vinyl version. The deluxe edition bonus track "Echoes of Time" is a longer alternate take of "Bayreuth Return", while "Windy Times" was recorded in 2000 and previously appeared on ''

Contemporary Works I ''Contemporary Works I'' is a limited-edition 10-disc CD box set released by Klaus Schulze in 2000 containing new studio material. The CDs are in cardboard sleeves and housed in a wooden box. Two years later Schulze released '' Contemporary Work ...

''.

Track listing

Personnel

* Klaus Schulze –

ARP 2600 The ARP 2600 is a subtractive synthesizer first produced by ARP Instruments in 1971. History Developed by a design team headed by ARP namesake Alan R. Pearlman and engineer Dennis Colin, the ARP 2600 was introduced in 1971 as the successor to ...

ARP Odyssey The ARP Odyssey is an analog circuit, analog synthesizer introduced by ARP Instruments in 1972. History ARP developed the Odyssey as a direct competitor to the Minimoog, Moog Minimoog and an answer to the demand for more affordable, portable, a ...

EMS Synthi A The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for ''Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3'') is a portable analogue synthesizer with a flexible modular voice architecture introduced by Electronic Music Studios (EMS) in 1969. EMS released the product ...

, Elka String Synthesizer,

Farfisa Farfisa () is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946. The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professional and VIP ranges, and later, a se ...

Professional Duo Organ and Piano, Synthanorma Sequencer. * Urs Amann - cover art

References

External links

''Timewind''
at the official site of Klaus Schulze * {{Authority control Klaus Schulze albums 1975 albums