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Re-release of the Klaus Schulze classic “X” (originally
released 1978).
Richard Wagner could also have been
part of these musical biographies on "X". Wagner is
particularly close to me because for me he was the first to
create a synthesis of the arts. For instance he demanded for a
composition a separate theatre where the orchestra could
disappear in the pit. Therein I see an analogy to the
synthesizer. Here the actual instrument is also disappearing
behind a few buttons – you're hearing very much but you don't
see much. But Wagner was a far too tremendous topic because
then I would have had to make "X" a triple album. For this
reason I had chosen only authors – except Friedemann Bach –
who had influenced me very much. Frank Herbert's novel Dune
almost was a bible for me at that time! Bavarian king Ludwig
II was, of course, no author but his life is a novel itself.
"X" also was film music – Barracuda – I had the budget so I
could afford an orchestra. However, it was really difficult to
master the orchestral score. I can actually write notes – I
once took also classical guitar lessons – but to write such a
score is a different kind of thing. All that music I could
have played within a day but on the score I worked for four
weeks long. Cellist Wolfgang Tiepold was a big help since I
wasn't that experienced just to say a violin can really play
what I had written in the score. In the middle section of
"Ludwig II." We had to make a tape loop for those repetitions.
The loop reached out across the studio and the kitchen, and
then we looped it. Because the musicians dropped their violins
when trying to play this passage live for 15 minutes. The tape
loop of course was – typical for my compositions! – 20 meters
long, haha. The bonus track "Objet d'Louis" is a live verson
of "Ludwig II." using a complete orchestra. I did that in 1978
because I wanted to hear how this track sounds live on stage
with an orchestra. I was on tour and also performed "Ludwig",
and in Belgium there was an opportunity to perform the song in
that style. A radio station wanted to broadcast the concert
live. So I asked if we can do that with an orchestra. Then
Tiepold rehearsed it a little bit with the orchestra, and in
the evening we played it and it was broadcasted live. Now you
can hear it again on the CD. |
