- Audio CD (8 Aug 2005)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Revisited
- ASIN: B0009MI812
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- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Since there are no reviews of this release I thought I'd put down a couple lines about it.
The music on this CD varies from rather abstract avant garde sounds (Sabastian imn Traum) to classic meandering Schulze such as the two opening numbers. there is, perhaps, more variety due to Schulze being accompanied here by three other musicians (a percussionist, cellist, and another soundscaper), but it's all to the good.
Sabastian im Traum deserves a mention because it's different from the opening two tracks in being les straight-forward and direct. For me this was welcome, I'd liken the music to the opening tack of Dune (if you know that Schulze album).
The second CD contains three shorter tracks (more on that in a moment) and a bonus track that is 50 minutes long (!) The bonu track is actually the full sountrack for an Aussie horror film called "Next of Kin". Apparently Schulze had been asked to score the film, but when the Director wanted a lot of changes made to it, Schulze found he didn't have time to do them. Due to this another score was commissioned from someone else, and this track was left behind.
The soundtrack is dark and brooding, as would have befit a horror title. It is, as usual, excellent work from Schulze, and is definately worthy of a listen.
As to the other three tracks, yes they're excellent - if short by Schulze standards. However, in a move that is likely to irk die-hard Schulze fans, this reissue does not follow the original track listing. In order to incorporate the 50-minute bonu track, the short tracks have been moved to the second disc, with the three long tracks put on CD 1. It sounds fine as it is, but purists might be upset. Personally I'm very happy to have the complete score, and this more than makes up for any moving around that has taken place.
And yes, this is a two-disc release with the usual excellent packaging and booklet.
All in all another winner, and at this price there's an hour and twenty minutes of music. You can't beat that.
The music on this CD varies from rather abstract avant garde sounds (Sabastian imn Traum) to classic meandering Schulze such as the two opening numbers. there is, perhaps, more variety due to Schulze being accompanied here by three other musicians (a percussionist, cellist, and another soundscaper), but it's all to the good.
Sabastian im Traum deserves a mention because it's different from the opening two tracks in being les straight-forward and direct. For me this was welcome, I'd liken the music to the opening tack of Dune (if you know that Schulze album).
The second CD contains three shorter tracks (more on that in a moment) and a bonus track that is 50 minutes long (!) The bonu track is actually the full sountrack for an Aussie horror film called "Next of Kin". Apparently Schulze had been asked to score the film, but when the Director wanted a lot of changes made to it, Schulze found he didn't have time to do them. Due to this another score was commissioned from someone else, and this track was left behind.
The soundtrack is dark and brooding, as would have befit a horror title. It is, as usual, excellent work from Schulze, and is definately worthy of a listen.
As to the other three tracks, yes they're excellent - if short by Schulze standards. However, in a move that is likely to irk die-hard Schulze fans, this reissue does not follow the original track listing. In order to incorporate the 50-minute bonu track, the short tracks have been moved to the second disc, with the three long tracks put on CD 1. It sounds fine as it is, but purists might be upset. Personally I'm very happy to have the complete score, and this more than makes up for any moving around that has taken place.
And yes, this is a two-disc release with the usual excellent packaging and booklet.
All in all another winner, and at this price there's an hour and twenty minutes of music. You can't beat that.
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Among the liner notes on the LP version of Mirage was a confusing message that Schulze preferred quantity over quality - that his idea of quality was in fact giving us a hige quantity of something essentially small but really quite good. So when he comes up with a haunting wandering melodic line or an entrancing sequencer pattern, he pigs out and gives us half an hour of it....
Audentity is no exeption, elongated blasts of some quite simple patterns and those familiar progressive pseudo-melodies. Something of an auto-biography, at least described as such by Alan Freeman at the time of its release....or a musical journey through his current (early 1980s) state of mind? I think the latter as this album shows Schulze scratching a bit for ideas. Nice enough as averages go. In fact the bonus tracks are much better than the original album! This is often the case with Schulze, which makes me wonder who actually chose the tracks for his album releases. We can never be sure where these bonus tracks come from - what era and who collaborated on them - but by the sounds they're from the Rainer Bloss collaboration era, lots of daft OST releases of cheap unsophisticated commercial music....these are more intellectually based so no wonder they got missed off albums like Drive In and Angst!
Good mediocre stuff for the collection, especially for the bonus tracks, about an album's worth of them here.
Audentity is no exeption, elongated blasts of some quite simple patterns and those familiar progressive pseudo-melodies. Something of an auto-biography, at least described as such by Alan Freeman at the time of its release....or a musical journey through his current (early 1980s) state of mind? I think the latter as this album shows Schulze scratching a bit for ideas. Nice enough as averages go. In fact the bonus tracks are much better than the original album! This is often the case with Schulze, which makes me wonder who actually chose the tracks for his album releases. We can never be sure where these bonus tracks come from - what era and who collaborated on them - but by the sounds they're from the Rainer Bloss collaboration era, lots of daft OST releases of cheap unsophisticated commercial music....these are more intellectually based so no wonder they got missed off albums like Drive In and Angst!
Good mediocre stuff for the collection, especially for the bonus tracks, about an album's worth of them here.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Audentity
11 Aug 2007
Format:Audio CD
Audentity features Klaus plus Michael Shrieve (the original drummer with Santana) on percussion, Rainer Bloss sounds and Glockenspeil, and Wolfgang Tiebold cello. The sound is clean, abstract, and somewhat introspective due to the cello. The original release was a double album with a lot of music. On this reissue Klaus re-distributed the tracks, simply so the bonus 58 minute track "Gem" could fit on the second CD. "Gem" was recorded at the same time as Audentity and intended as the score for the Australian horror movie "Next of Kin". The sound is dark, gloomy, and aggressive, but the music was never used in the movie.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Experimentation
17 Nov 2000
Format:Audio CD
People like to judge what is best and what is not. This is very human and I am no different. Most people can't take more than a clip by Klaus Schulze and that is fine by me. There are also those who like his performances and try to refer any of his recordings to "good old times".
Artists search for their medium, explore new landscapes, if they are brave enough to follow their fantasies, and not comply to their fans' demands. This is especially the case with Klaus Schulze. All of his albums are pure sound experiments, and only sometimes they happen to carry a recognizable tune. All his records contain tracks that have maximum length allowed by recording media in a given time span.
Klaus puts a lot of effort into creating an atmosphere. Meditation is his ultimate goal. This is why his music is lengthy, monotonous, although not repetitive, and there is little tension per minute. Altogether, if you like to get lost in thoughts, he will carry your mind further than you would have done yourself - if you supply your brain with some of his experimental music.
"Audentity" stands out in the crowd of his albums. First of all, it's a double CD, and every single track is worth your attention. The climate changes significantly across 6 tracks, from violin-propelled sequencer journey of childhood: "Cellistica", through adolescent pains, humps and slumps in the form of "Tango-Saty" and "Amourage" to the maturity and stability of "Spielglocken". Then the rhythms vanish altogether and you enter the scary world of senile autumn of life. No more beat, no more organization, just the creeps, interluded only with pleasant memories of spent life - "Sebastian in Traum".
"Audentity" is the musical base on which "Thank You Poland" is developed. The latter is an amazing concert suite, again a double LP. I dare to claim that these two recordings set a standard so high for Schulze himself, that only 12 years after he managed to get close to it again ("In Blue").
"Audentity" and "Thank You Poland" are Schulze's masterpieces. I am positive that no one can be "persuaded" to Klaus Schulze. But if you happened to own/hear some of his work and need a guide, then you may as well start from these two.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A very refreshing record by K Schulze
2 Aug 2002
Format:Audio CD
First of all, I think it is wise to define for the new listener what music K Schulze does. K Schulze does experimental music, which he s done since the early 70 s w/ guitarist Manuel Gottsching in as hra tempel. Mr Schulze focuses more on keyboards, and other accesories like computers, and different types of keyboards to create the sounds he wants or attempts to achieve.
On this double cd, it is done very well. There are 95 minutes of music total on this album. The first disc is a mix of different sorts of sounds. Even I think, sounding like different styles from different parts of the world. There is lots of percussion, and lots of experimental keyboard. To my liking the song Amourage really wins two thumbs up for taking over the identity of this disc (the first one). On disc two, we have to big songs, Spielglocken, & sebastian im traum. Spielglocken is a very cool song (Way nice arrangement throughout). Very enjoyable.
The last song Sebastian Im traum is the song that takes the cd away. It is a song that shows you the incredible degree or level of arranging that this man has. Artists like Robert rich come close on this type of music, and succeed in their own offerings and efforts, but Sebastian.. will leave you amazed at the skill that it took to arrange the song and to execute it, to sound like the wrath of god coming at you.
Awesome record.
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