Klaus Schulze - Bayreuth Return (Complete)

CD1 opens up with the glorious 'Bayreuth Return'(30.32). A gale force electronic wind is blowing as small twittering synths drift around in an off world dimension. You know this is all just for effect as a uniform sequence surges forward propelling the piece onwards with an urgency and intensity that just takes over the entire track carrying the whole piece. At the six minute mark the sequencers seamlessly mutate into something completely different as Klaus pulls the rug from under our feet leaving just the high tempo, but the arpeggiations in freefall. The sonic panorama seemingly matching the cover art with its bleak desert like emptiness. This then constitutes the main body of the track with a sense of eerie calm as two echoed notes' in the far distance come to us intermittently as more of a remote signal than any kind of theme. Switching register and key, Klaus fades the synths in and out of the mix. A steady blanket of organ string sounds fizz away sounding wonderfully thin and tinny, but acting as an excellent foil to the ongoing synth soloing and white noise effects that whistle through the mix. The last ten minutes see's the return of the thundering opening sequence, re-entering play like a freight train hammering down the track!!! This time around events don't build to a climax as is so often the case on other album tracks of this nature; instead everything is given more pace by an increase in the frequency of sequencer pattern changes as he quickly retraces his steps back through the piece until a final and rather sudden metallic crash terminates everything.
Review by Synth Music Direct

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• klaus
• schulze
• bayreuth
• return
• timewind
• 1975
• moondawn
• mirage
• live
• deluxe
• edition
• reissue
• electronic
• music
• synthesizer
• ambient
• experimental
• electronica
• sound
• progressive
• tangerine
• dream
• chill
• yt:stretch=16:9

[vincentjacque]

"Bayreuth Return is tehe best ever heard Klaus Schulze's pieces to me.

[RichieFZ]

@vincentjacque

Crystal Lake is my favourite but its all good :-)

[Elfaih]

Magnifique travail pour accompagner cette musique entraînante, j'adore, merci

Elfaih ♥

[lsdmadman]

how unchristly bizarre i diligently thank them gods

[Laurentvigneron]

Magnifique , juste sublime

[rasarx1]

Of all the thousands upon thousands of pieces of music that are composed few will take one into an incredible journey into a world one can only reach through the speed of imagination. Timewind is a spacecraft that takes you into that lustfully alien, fresh and intriguing world.

[sitithesecond]

This track makes you feel you're travelling at a great speed through outer space with all its peace and beauty. Thank you so very much.

[sitithesecond]

this is indeed absolutely glorious ... one of my favourite pieces by Schulz. I used to have the LP :-))) also X and Dune.

[vincentjacque]

I discovered him with this, I meant !

[vincentjacque]

I discovered this with this !