Mirage

by Klaus Schulze

Mirage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1977
  • Label: Brain, Island
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:17:18
  • Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Subtitled 'Eine elektronische Winterlandschaft' (An Electronic Winter Landscape), 'Mirage' is a significant work of the Berlin School, utilizing an array of analog synthesizers to create its stark, atmospheric, and minimalist sound. The album consists of two extended, slowly developing compositions that evoke a sense of glacial stillness and eerie, crystalline beauty through layered synth textures, ethereal choirs, and subtle sequencer patterns. Considered one of Klaus Schulze's most personal and uncompromising works, its somber and meditative qualities reflect a departure from the more rhythmic-driven electronic music of the era.

Genres

Descriptors: electronic, synthesizers, expansive, minimal, ambient

Tracklist

  1. Velvet Voyage
  2. Crystal Lake

Credits

  • Klaus Schulze - electronics, producer, performer, writer, liner notes, sleeve notes, arp odyssey & 2600, minimoog, micromoog, polymoog, moog ciis, ems synthi a, farfisa string orchestra & syntorchestra, ppg synthi, farfisa organ, crumar keyboards, computer sequencer, fx
  • Guido Harari - photography by
  • Jonz - lacquer cut by
  • Nigel Molden - coordinator

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