Moondawn
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| Studio album by Klaus Schulze | ||||
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April 16, 1976 |
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January 1976 |
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LP, MC, CD |
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running time |
52 min 37 s (1976) |
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Klaus Schulze |
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Moondawn (English for “moon twilight”) is an instrumental album by the German musician Klaus Schulze , which was recorded in 1976 with his former Ash Ra Tempel bandmate Harald Großkopf . It was produced by Schulze and officially published a total of four times - 1976, 1995, 2005 and 2017.
Schulze also recorded a Mellotron track for the 1991 CD re-release in order to cover up background noises and a second- long cracking sound in Moondawn's master tape. However, this was removed from publications and productions from 1995 onwards.
In a sense, the album can be seen as the last Ash Ra Tempel album that Schulze took part in, as here, in contrast to his previous albums, synthesizers took a back seat and, above all, the drums gained importance, which was already very unusual for him. There was also a kind of role reversal for the album - Schulze formed the (rhythmic) basis for the pieces with organ, string piano and synthesizer, while Großkopf brought dynamism and variety into the piece with the drums.
In December 2017 it was remastered together with several other Schulze albums and released on CD and record. It is the first reprint on record since 1989 - this version was only released in South Korea. The last of the same in Europe was available in France in 1980.
Track list
- Written by Klaus Schulze; arranged by Klaus Schulze and Harald Grosskopf
- Floating - 27:15
- Mindphaser - 25:34
- Floating Sequence - 21:11
- Supplement - 25:22
Floating Sequence was added as a bonus track when the CD was re-released in 2005. Before that, a bonus track was added to the original Manikin Records master CD from 1995 - Supplement . If the former is an alternative version of floating , the latter is the same from Mindphaser . For the new release in 2017, these were removed and only the original titles Floating and Mindphaser were used.
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occupation
- Klaus Schulze - Moog-Synthesizer , ARP 2600 , ARP Odyssey , EMS Synthi-A , Farfisa Syntorchestra , Crumar-Organ, Synthanorma-Sequencer, Mellotron (only '91 version)
- Harald Grosskopf - drums
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Moondawn" , accessed October 22, 2017