Ambient and electronic music is often dismissed by those unfamiliar with the genres as sterile, robotic, calculated, inhuman, and so on. I've heard from many a punker that the electronic overlords of old are "soulless" and "boring." This has baffled me and always will. Klaus Schulze
is humanity. What can be more universal and
soulful than these soothing sounds? Apologies, for I sometimes lose my rational side when it comes to music - I am simply taken away by this music. Klaus Schulze's
Timewind is the 70s electronic equivalent of a Wagnerian epic - set on planet Nibiru.
So many ideas, so many soundscapes... Themes, motifs, what have you, and it is all from one man. Klaus Schulze at his finest takes the listener on a journey. The listener feels as if he is floating through space, although it is a different space where humans can breathe and roam free. While Tangerine Dream's music is more meditative and tribal in its repetition, evoking the birth of music itself, Schulze's work is like a progressing journey. There is also an oceanic quality to Schulze's work. The point he's trying to make is that of the vastness and infinite nature of not just our world, but the universe. Deep and wet, but also icey and dry. It makes sense when one closes his eyes and immerses himself in the music.
There is no end of the universe, although Klaus Schulze has done his best to try and reach it.
