The SOund of the Future Past: Klaus Schulze's Timewind turns 50
Echoes weekend listeners celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Timewind, the 1975 album by Klaus Schulze that helped launch a new genre in electronic music. We’ll hear a documentary on Klaus Schulze and a good helping of this expansive album.
Klaus is one of the icons of Echoes. He sadly left the planet in 2022. Timewind was his 5th album, and it consisted of just two sidelong tracks, both with titles that are dedications to Richard Wagner. Before Techno, Electronica, Synth-pop and Ambient music; before synthesizers were as commonplace as electric guitars, Klaus Schulze was creating a music unlike any that had been heard before. Over the course of six decades, he made over 50 proper albums, solo recordings with evocative Titles like Moondawn, Mirage, Trancefer and Stars Are Burning. There’s also been several collaborations and a trove of multi-CD box sets. These albums have influenced multiple generations beginning with artists like Steve Roach, Ian Boddy, and Mark Shreeve in the early 80s, then Moby in the late-80s and TV composers in the new millennium like Brian Reitzell of Mr. Robot and Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of Stranger Things. In fact, whenever I play Klaus in the house my kinds ask me if it’s the soundtrack to Stranger Things. He even influenced Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance who collaborated with Schulze on a pair of albums. Klaus left the planet in 2022, and today, we celebrate his landmark album, Timewind, released on August 25, 1975. 50 years later, it still sounds like the future. Join us when we celebrate Klaus Schulze’s Timewind on its 50th anniversary on Echoes from PRX.