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Klaus Schulze
Body Love 2
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

Track Listings (4) - Disc #1
1. Nowhere - Now Here
2. Stardancer II
3. Moogetique
4. Buddy Laugh (A Rock n Roll Bolero) (bonus track)

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CD Details

All Artists: Klaus Schulze
Title: Body Love 2
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Revisited Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 1/29/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Experimental Music, Dance Pop, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 693723788524, 0693723788524, 4001617052273

Synopsis

Product Description

Evoking power, purification, enchantment and lyrical relaxation together with a biological rhythm that became music these are the five pieces that make up this pulsing mosaic of poetry set to music . That was the opinion of Body Love 2 by the German Music Magazine "Stereoplay" in June 1978.

Almost exactly 30 years after its first release, SPV/Revisited re-release this classic album in a high-class digipack with bonus track and expanded booklet including new liner notes and photos. A must for fans of electronic sounds!

Klaus Schulze first attracted attention as a member of the German progressive rock band, Tangerine Dream. Following the release of their debut LP, Electronic Meditation, he departed for a solo career. Klaus' recorded work typically features extended pieces sometimes filling an entire album built around computer-generated synthesizers and other specially programmed electronic effects. Klaus Schulze remains a cult figure in the United States, where the bulk of his prolific output has until now been available only through the import bins. He is widely considered an avant-garde mainstay as well as a founding father of both the new-age space music and electronica genres.

CD Reviews

Sequencers ago-go

Steve Benner | Lancaster, UK | 12/08/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This disc is a reissue of Klauss Schulze's original "Body Love 2" CD from 1977, with a generous 15 minutes' worth of bonus track taking the overall playing time up to a hefty 79+ mins. The music here is an extended reworking of material from the earlier release of music for the Swedish blue movie "Body Love" (1977) and was originally released as a musical sequel to that earlier album. The bonus track is drawn from the original tape of material produced for the film but never previously released. It has been jokingly entitled 'Buddy Laugh (A Rock & Roll Bolero)' in a typical Klaus D. Mueller comic gesture.

As one would expect from a Krautrock album of this date, this disc has some lovely soaring Mini-moog solo lines, often heftily LFO-modulated, a sprinkling of gurgling and twittering swept oscillator overlays, in addition to a goodly helping of big, meaty modular Moog analogue synth sounds accompanied by plenty of throbbing and pounding sequencer figures. This being an early Klaus Schulze album, it also has some strong drum lines, here delivered by the masterful hands of Harald Grosskopf.

And, this being Klaus Schulze, one can also be sure that the musical development is minimal, with both the harmonies and the melodies wandering fairly aimlessly for long periods -- often from slow and dreamy to fast and powerful in almost no time at all -- before suddenly just stopping or fading out. In short, then, there are no surprises here for anyone who knows Klaus Schulze's music but equally no disappointments either. My favourite track here is the lovely moody 'Moogetique' -- I love those swept oscillators -- but for anyone who wishes to hark back to early synthesiser rock at its finest, there is much else here to enjoy. Collectors will be particularly happy to have the previously unavailable bonus material also.

Stylistically, Klaus Schulze was just about at his closest to Tangerine Dream at this time of this career and if you life this album and want more of a similar kind, you may like to check out TD's "Encore" (or even "Phaedra") with which it has many similarities."