''Aphrica'' is a collaboration 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 ...
,
Rainer Bloss and
Ernst Fuchs, with the painter Fuchs providing vocals. ''Aphrica'' was both released and withdrawn in 1984. Although the reason the album was taken off the market was mainly legal (the label Inteam had "forgotten" to make a contract with Fuchs
), Schulze had very little positive to say about the collaboration in retrospect: "Besides, it's an awful album, just because of that silly singing or recitation. Fuchs tries to be "serious", but he's only involuntarily funny. In Germany we have the word "
peinlich" for it."
The press seemed to agree. According to ''tip'', a
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
-based magazine, "(...) due to their grandiloquent dimwittedness, the lyrics provoke only tormented laughter." (June 1984)
Track listing
# "Aphrodite" – 19:40
# "Brothers and Sisters" – 12:20
# "Africa" – 06:50
References
External links
Listing on klaus-schulze.com
1984 collaborative albums
Klaus Schulze albums
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