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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.
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