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Klaus Schulze

Irrlicht (LP)

LabelBrainGenreElectronic

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Late 1970's re-issue on Brain of the astonishing and ground-breaking debut album of beautiful experimental cosmic music originally released in 1972. A masterpiece on the NWW list.

condition (record/cover): VG+ (light surface noise at the beginning of both sides) / VG+ (light wear)

Black labels.

Klaus Schulze had drummed in the first Tangerine Dream and in Ash Ra Tempel before striking out alone, and Irrlicht (1972) is where he began. Subtitled a quadrophonic symphony, it was made almost without synthesizers: Schulze recorded an orchestra, then filtered, slowed, and processed the tapes into vast organ-like drones, conjuring cosmic music out of broken and treated sound.

Bleak, glacial, and unlike anything around it, it is one of the genuine starting points of what came to be called the Berlin School. The 1972 debut in its Brain pressing, that label being the German home for so much of this music. For collectors weighing one issue of Klaus Schulze's first and strangest record against another.

Details
Cat. number: 0001 077
Year: 1978

Release notes

Subtitled "Quadrophonische Symphonie für Orchester und E-Maschinen". Im Vertrieb der Metronome Records GmbH [...] Made in W.-Germany Made in Germany by Metronome Musik GmbH P. 1972 Embossed stamp "PRS Hannover" on the back cover. Black label with silver prints. Catalog# BRAIN 1077 appears on cover (spine, front). Catalog# 1077 appears on rear cover. Catalog# 0001 077 appears on labels. As the release has label code, the year of this reissue could be 1977 or later.

Tracklist
A11. Satz: Ebene
A22. Satz: Gewitter (Energy Rise-Energy Collaps)
B3. Satz: Exil Sils Maria
Credits