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X

A double album of six musical portraits of thinkers and artists.
Klaus Schulze, 1978

X is Schulze's tenth studio album, a double LP on Brain Records in September 1978, produced by Schulze and recorded in 1978 at Panne-Paulsen Studios in Frankfurt. Its six tracks are musical biographies of figures who influenced him: Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, Frank Herbert, Friedemann Bach, Ludwig II of Bavaria and Heinrich von Kleist. It sits between Body Love Vol. 2 (1977) and Dune (1979). Harald Grosskopf played drums on the Nietzsche, Trakl, Herbert and Bach pieces. Wolfgang Tiepold played cello and conducted on the Ludwig piece, B. Dragic was the solo violinist on Friedemann Bach, and a small Hessischer Rundfunk string orchestra played, its strings looped on tape as on Irrlicht (1972). AllMusic gave it 4 of 5. A 2005 reissue on Revisited Records added a bonus track, a live version of Ludwig II. called Objet d'Louis.

Track listing

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche24:50
  2. Georg Trakl5:25
  3. Frank Herbert10:51
  4. Friedemann Bach18:00
  5. Ludwig II. von Bayern28:39
  6. Heinrich von Kleist29:32

More from Klaus Schulze

Irrlicht (1972), Cyborg (1973), Blackdance (1974), Picture Music (1975), Timewind (1975), Moondawn (1976), Body Love (Originalmusik) (1977), Mirage (1977), Dune (1979), Dig It (1980), Trancefer (1981), Audentity (1983), Angst (1984), Inter * Face (1985), Dreams (1986), En=Trance (1988), Miditerranean Pads (1990), The Dresden Performance (1990), Beyond Recall (1991), The Dome Event (1993), Goes Classic (1994), Le Moulin De Daudet (1994), Historic Edition (1995), In Blue (1995), Are You Sequenced? (1996), Dosburg Online (1997), Contemporary Works 2 (2002), Vanity Of Sounds (2005), Moonlake (2005), Ballett 1 (2006), Ballett 2 (2006), Kontinuum (2007), Ballett 4 (2007), Ballett 3 (2007), Virtual Outback (2008), Shadowlands (2013), Stars Are Burning (2014), Another Green Mile (2016), Androgyn (2017), Silhouettes (2018), Cocooning (2018), Timbres Of Ice (2019), Next Of Kin (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019), Deus Arrakis (2022), 101, Milky Way (2024)

Sources

  1. X (Klaus Schulze album), Wikipedia