Picture Music

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Picture Music
Studio album by Klaus Schulze

Publication
(s)

January 1975

admission

Late 1974

Label (s) Brain

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Electronica , Berlin School , Dance

Title (number)

2

running time

46 min 45 s
79 min 57 s (Re-Release 2005)

production

Klaus Schulze

Location (s)

Berlin

chronology
Black Dance
(1974) 		Picture Music Timewind
(1975)

Picture Music is the fourth album by German musician Klaus Schulze , which was recorded in 1974 and released in January 1975.

It is the only one of his albums in which Schulze plays the drums himself . Before his solo career, however, he also worked as a drummer for Ash Ra Tempel and Tangerine Dream . All other recordings of "real" drums on his albums were made in collaboration with other artists, mainly Harald Großkopf .

Album order

For a long time, Picture Music was considered Schulze's third album - it was triggered by printing errors on various releases that indicated the recording year 1973. Picture Music was therefore created before its actual predecessor Blackdance . After a closer examination by Klaus Schulze's closest confidante Klaus D. Mueller in the 1990s, who had been making detailed records of Schulze's career since the beginning of his career, it could be proven that Blackdance was made in May 1974, i.e. before Picture Music . Nevertheless, Picture Music is still considered the third album by the labels and databases, and the recording date has not been corrected in many places and is still mentioned as 1973.

The large number of different covers as well as their creation and usage time contributed to this confusion.

Cover

In total, Picture Music was officially released under four different covers:

Initially it appeared with a work by the surrealist Jacques Vyrs, but shortly after publication Schulze asked the surrealist Urs Amann to design new covers for this one, the successor Timewind and the previous albums Blackdance , Cyborg and Irrlicht . However, the Brain label saw no reason to change the Picture Music cover at such short notice - the Amann cover was therefore initially only used for the later release in France on the Isadora label . Similar to Cyborg, there is also an alternative version of this cover in which the picture is additionally framed in a white frame that contains the album and artist name and does not represent this as it was originally in the picture itself.

In 1976 Ariola also released the album in the Benelux countries, but there with a cover that is very similar to the album Moondawn , which was released in the same year . For both covers, Schulze's photographs by Guido Harari were used, which are surrounded by a round frame. With Moondawn this is orange, with Picture Music blue. In a brain re-release in 1980, a photo of a painting was used, which is on a corner in a field.

The new release in 2005 uses the Amann cover slightly changed in combination with a back that is based on this and has never been used before.

Track list

  • Written and arranged by Klaus Schulze
  1. Totem - 23:53
  2. Mental Door - 23:02
  3. C'est pas la même chose (French for It's not the same ) - 33:00

When the album was re-released in 2005, C'est pas la même chose was added as a bonus track. It is an alternate version of Totem .

Professional evaluation
source rating
Allmusic

occupation

production

  • Production by Klaus Schulze
  • Layout design by Thomas Ewerhard
  • Photographs by Guido Harari
  • Illustrations and cover design by Urs Amann, Jacques Vyrs and Brain Records

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allmusic.com Album Review "Picture Music" , accessed February 24, 2018