Klaus Schulze's debut is a dense work, bordering serious Classical. No trademark sequencers to be found here. Systems music with an orchestra, or as the cover suggests Quadrophonische Symphonie für Orchester und E-Maschinen (I'm telling you, Spelling Bee champions in Germany must be impressive!) To me, at first, the strings sounded like mellotron - just in the way the sound is presented. This is music to write about the end of society as we know it. A dirge. Dark, abstract, formless.
Ownership: LP: 1972 Ohr. Beautiful Gatefold (with the requisite Made in Germany sticker on the back). Purchased in 1990 at the Sound Exchange in Austin, Texas. Still has the price sticker affixed to the label - $7.99. So there you have it. I was with long time collector friend Purple Peak Jeff, and we went there after the Austin Record Show. Junkies we were (are). Been ages and ages since I last heard this album, before today.
10/13/90; 12/31/21 (new entry)
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