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annode · Post by **annode** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 4:38 am

http://www.klaus-schulze.com/
That`s all that is known for the moment.

jensa · Post by **jensa** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:12 pm

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 2:24 pm

"Seriously ill", hope it aint cancer

http://www.tokafi.com/news/schulze-ill/

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:14 pm

All the best to KS.

Instead of Klaus, TD will play on the event.

http://filharmonia.szczecin.pl/events_d ... GAR_FROESE

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:36 pm

Can we still call Tangerine Dream to a band where none of the original members is present?

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:43 pm

fmr wrote:Can we still call Tangerine Dream to a band where none of the original members is present?

Maybe not, but their latest releases With Ulrich Schnauss is some of their best of recent years IMO

Would be interesting if Chris Franke could make a comeback in the band, but he is probably to busy making schmaltz new age on his own

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:49 pm

Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:Can we still call Tangerine Dream to a band where none of the original members is present?
Maybe not, but their latest releases With Ulrich Schnauss is some of their best of recent years IMO

Which doesn't mean much, does it?

Numanoid wrote:[Would be interesting if Chris Franke could make a comeback in the band, but he is probably to busy making schmaltz new age on his own

Nah, Chris Franke could never play with these kids. He belongs to another era, when electronic music had a completely different meaning.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:03 pm

fmr wrote:
Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:Can we still call Tangerine Dream to a band where none of the original members is present?
Maybe not, but their latest releases With Ulrich Schnauss is some of their best of recent years IMO
Which doesn't mean much, does it?

I got into Tangerine Dream around '89 picking up a compilation, and then really into them when I got hold of Logos and Force Majeure in '94

Looking back, their best period is from about Stratosfear to Logos IMO, Quichotte and Logos being my favourites

Their worst period is about the same as Gary Numan, late 80's to mid-90s. Lily on the Beach is just a horrendous album for example.

I think they did return to form in the 00's and I look forward to following them with Schnauss as the main man

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:53 am

Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:
Numanoid wrote:
fmr wrote:Can we still call Tangerine Dream to a band where none of the original members is present?
Maybe not, but their latest releases With Ulrich Schnauss is some of their best of recent years IMO
Which doesn't mean much, does it?
I got into Tangerine Dream around '89 picking up a compilation, and then really into them when I got hold of Logos and Force Majeure in '94

Looking back, their best period is from about Stratosfear to Logos IMO, Quichotte and Logos being my favourites

Their worst period is about the same as Gary Numan, late 80's to mid-90s. Lily on the Beach is just a horrendous album for example.

I think they did return to form in the 00's and I look forward to following them with Schnauss as the main man

I like Stratosfear and Force Majeure too, but I don't like Logos that much. But I do like Tangram (a masterpiece, IMO) and Hyperborea. However, the best ones, for me, are undoubtedly, Phaedra and Rubycon - there's some magic in what they achieved with so many limitations, and the experimental vein is much more prominent in those albums.

I lost my interest in them after Chris Franke leave. It was no longer TD, IMO

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 8:34 pm

I hope he is getting better, I just checked the site, and they had put up some free PDF newsletter during the last two weeks, so no big announcements

http://www.klaus-schulze.com/

annode · Post by **annode** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 2:59 am

This link http://www.klaus-schulze.com/biograph.htm notes "Serious disease of KS. Since September convalescent" if you scroll down to 2005.
I don't know what to make of it either.

EDIT - also saw this on another site;
"Schulze experienced a health scare in 2008 which required him to cancel several scheduled performances. After recovering, he returned to touring for a while, but then announced in 2011 that he would do no more live performances due to ongoing health issues."

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:21 am

Hmm. no good news, hopefully he will get well very soon.

Btw. KS is IMO a mediocre musician, never liked his improvisations. Ulrich Schnauss is IMO miles ahead. There was a new album announced with TD and Schnauss "Quantum Gate" but I have never seen it in some stores like Amazon, I've only heard a preview on Soundcloud some month ago.

annode · Post by **annode** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:17 pm

4damind wrote:Hmm. no good news, hopefully he will get well very soon.

Btw. KS is IMO a mediocre musician, never liked his improvisations. Ulrich Schnauss is IMO miles ahead. There was a new album announced with TD and Schnauss "Quantum Gate" but I have never seen it in some stores like Amazon, I've only heard a preview on Soundcloud some month ago.

Reading what I wrote just above, it seems apparent KS has a progressive disease that has only gotten worse...[MS?]so he will not be getting better.

For me TD has always been about the 'atmosphere' not the musicianship.
On their best records and KS solo recordings,the musical synthesis, how they've created the contents of the cauldron and how the contents are mixed and stirred.

HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:54 pm

fmr wrote:Nah, Chris Franke could never play with these kids. He belongs to another era, when electronic music had a completely different meaning.

Which was what?

4damind · Post by **4damind** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:34 pm

annode wrote:
4damind wrote:Hmm. no good news, hopefully he will get well very soon.

Btw. KS is IMO a mediocre musician, never liked his improvisations. Ulrich Schnauss is IMO miles ahead. There was a new album announced with TD and Schnauss "Quantum Gate" but I have never seen it in some stores like Amazon, I've only heard a preview on Soundcloud some month ago.
Reading what I wrote just above, it seems apparent KS has a progressive disease that has only gotten worse...[MS?]so he will not be getting better.

For me TD has always been about the 'atmosphere' not the musicianship.
On their best records and KS solo recordings,the musical synthesis, how they've created the contents of the cauldron and how the contents are mixed and stirred.

Anyway, let's hope the best for him. Hopefully it's not a incurable disease.

I remember more some solo stuff Schulze made and it looks in the videos always if he had completely no idea what he is doing. He is moving some knobs and running a sequencer with a lot of repetitions and it's sounds always more like trial and error or if he is testing stuff.
He has not this trained piano playing craft as other artists and with Tangerine Dream he was Afaik "only" a drummer.
But also the newer stuff like "Shadowland" (2013), it's sounds always if he is improvising and has only very limited composing skillz. I never liked him as a electronic musician. It's sound often very boring after some minutes (and most of his track are _very_ long).

Klaus Schulze is in constant medical treatment.Not expected to change. :(