X
by Klaus Schulze
- Type: Album
- Released: September 1978
- Label: Brain
- Country: Germany
- Length: 58:16
- Community rating: 4.56/5 from 8 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Klaus Schulze's tenth album, 'X', is a monumental work of the Berlin School structured as six musical biographies of influential intellectuals like Friedrich Nietzsche and Frank Herbert. The album merges expansive synthesizer arrangements and sequenced rhythms with organic instrumentation, notably integrating a looped string orchestra and Wolfgang Tiepold's cello. Percussion from Harald Grosskopf underpins several tracks, adding a dynamic, rock-oriented dimension to the otherwise classically-influenced electronic compositions.
Genres
Descriptors: electronic, synthesizers, expansive, spacious, long-form
Tracklist
Credits
- Klaus Schulze - electronics, percussion (on "friedemann bach" and "heinrich von kleist"), producer, composed by, arranged by, performer, recorded by, mixed by, synthesizer [big moog, ppg synthesizer, minimoog, arp odyssey, korg polyphonic, polymoog, synthi a], mellotron, sequencer, drums, effects [revox echo, akg bx 20 hall, dynacord speakers], liner notes
- Harald Grosskopf - drum kit ("friedrich nietzsche", "georg trakl", "frank herbert", "friedemann bach")
- Wolfgang Tiepold - cello (on "friedemann bach", "heinrich von kleist"), conductor (on "ludwig ii. von bayern" and "objet d'louis")
- B. Dragi膰 - solo violin (on "friedemann bach")
- Small string orchestra from Orchester des Hessischen Rundfunks - [8 violins, 3 violas, 3 cellos, 1 double bass] (on "friedemann bach", "ludwig ii. von bayern")
- Large string orchestra of young Belgian musicians - (on "objet d'louis")
- SST (8) - lacquer cut by
- Klaus D. M眉ller - liner notes, art direction, concept by, lighting, cover, photography by
- Blanche (7) - photography by
- Guido Harari - photography by
- Chique Graphics - design