Klaus Schulze
Timewind

THE REVIEW

Album from '75 that the Artist dedicates to Richard Wagner to pay homage to the great influence his classical music had on him, a spectacular cover for two long cosmic tracks of about 30 minutes per side that are a pinnacle of his career. Chronologically, it is his fifth album, still recorded at home, practically live with very little instrumentation compared to what he will have available for the subsequent ones. During the listening, one breathes deeply with expansive moments and others of an obsessive nature. It transports us in the absence of gravity to dance in infinite spaces where the kosmische music takes the podium and, from being abstract, will become concrete in the following years, referencing also just Jean-Michel Jarre and the whole new age. The listening starts relaxed but progressively and slowly tension is created and hypnotic moments alternate with others that are sweetly dreamy. A very balanced album that has not suffered the passage of time, remaining, in my opinion, a masterpiece, a perfect alchemy between the kosmische musik of the origins and the electronic pulsations of the future for a magical album that surely also Vangelis will have listened to multiple times for his Blade Runner. Let us be carried away in this odyssey in space.