Okay, well if you're running around buying most everything you can that's Berlin school related you could do much worse than getting your hands on Mr' Schulze's 1980 release 'Live' which as you've probably already guessed is a collection of live recordings from shows various. It was an epic double album to start with, then it was extended significantly for it's debut release on CD, only to come to us now reissued with a further eighteen minute bonus track tagged onto the end - that's two and a half hours of music from the master of the live 'electronic' environment!!!
As with most all live albums the sound and production quality suffers to one extent or another. This was a factor which concerned Klaus so greatly that a 'live' album as such was never issued back in the seventies. So with some arm twisting and gentle persuasion some of his personal tape recordings of the shows were selected and compiled for this long overdue release. I've just listened through the whole two disc set once again and l have to say that this is simply a superb album, l thought this more than twenty five years ago and l'm sticking with it. Some of the things Klaus is doing with the equipment is just amazing and of course you must remember that for much of the time this is just Klaus performing unassisted, improvising with just afew prepared sequences.
'Live' is neatly packaged in a gatefold card slipcase in the standard re-issue design together with a plethora of photo's strewn throughout accompanying 20 page booklet. There's an excellent write up from Schulze in there too, together with some finely tuned facts from Klaus D Mueller on the back page. If it's Berlin school you want, here it is. |
