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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
X (subtitled as six electronic biographies) is a collection of six regular master pieces. On X, Klaus Schulze manages to combine the warm sound of a classical orchestra and voices with the earie sounds of electronic organs and synthi. For those familiar with the works of Klaus Schulze and alike, it is almost a must have !! For those who are to discover electronic music, X offers a comprehensable piece of art and a perfect stepping stone for a journey in the pre-80's electronic scene. Also recommended "Cyborg" by Klaus Schulze.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album may be the most prominent example of a succesful combination of classic orchestral and rhythmic instrumentation ever in music history. It's Schulze, so do not expect blue notes(!), but it's both classic, rhythmic and electronic, and it really sounds both dramatic and grandiose.
The works on this album were inspired by the dramatic lives of classic (mainly German/Austrian) poets and writers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl (see also 'Sebatian im Traum' on the KS 1983 album 'Audentity'), Frank Herbert (wrote novel 'Dune') Friedemann Bach (J.s. Bach's least succesful son), and Heinrich von Kleist.
However, the most breathtaking of these enregetic and dramatic rhythmic tracks is 'Ludwig II von Bayern', inspired by the Bavarian (big spender) king Maximillian Ludwig II (1845-1886), who played a major part in uniting the Germano-Roman states AND enabled Richard Wagner to set up his famous works.
Schulze's tenth work, 'X', (with sub-title 'Six Musical Biographies') is not only his own best work. I consider it as a major work in both rhythmic and classic music history.
But please avoid the split one-disc-releases (as 'vol. 1' and 'vol. 2'), because this album is simply too darn grand-unique to be torn apart!
The works on this album were inspired by the dramatic lives of classic (mainly German/Austrian) poets and writers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl (see also 'Sebatian im Traum' on the KS 1983 album 'Audentity'), Frank Herbert (wrote novel 'Dune') Friedemann Bach (J.s. Bach's least succesful son), and Heinrich von Kleist.
However, the most breathtaking of these enregetic and dramatic rhythmic tracks is 'Ludwig II von Bayern', inspired by the Bavarian (big spender) king Maximillian Ludwig II (1845-1886), who played a major part in uniting the Germano-Roman states AND enabled Richard Wagner to set up his famous works.
Schulze's tenth work, 'X', (with sub-title 'Six Musical Biographies') is not only his own best work. I consider it as a major work in both rhythmic and classic music history.
But please avoid the split one-disc-releases (as 'vol. 1' and 'vol. 2'), because this album is simply too darn grand-unique to be torn apart!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Never one to play short radio friendly pieces, Klaus surpasses himself with a double cd worth of sometimes percussive, sometimes floaty ethereal sequencer runs. Melodies come and go throughout the lenghty tracks. (the shortest is a mere 5 minutes whilst the others run from 10 minutes up to a few seconds short of 30 minutes.) Standout tracks have to be Freidrich Nietzsche and Ludwig II Von Bayern. Listen for the orchestral sounds on the latter giving it a hint of Electric Light Orchestra sound about it. I'd rank this as probably his best album ever and there are plenty to choose from.
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Strong contender for Best Klaus Schulze Album.
I've found that Klaus Schulze's albums seem to be defined not by the minutia or the surface details of the music but by that subjective term 'atmosphere'. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Alexander J. Dunn
MUCH MORE THAN THE x FACTOR
When i originally bought this in 1978 it was a double vinyl album,at the time Can,Amon duul2 .Kraan. Read more
Published on 18 July 2008 by Finbar the looney
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