Klaus Schulze - But Beautiful

The bonus track on this occasion having absolutely nothing to do with 'Cyborg' coming in the form of a 'live' recording of material from 1977, (that fact alone will have many immediately reach for their wallets l would imagine). It's an archive recording from 'St. Michael's' cathedral Brussels 17/09/77 with a monumental running time of over fifty minutes entitled 'But Beautiful'. What we have here is some primetime seventies Schulze as he promoted the 'Mirage' album released in spring that same year. The quality of the recording is very good indeed, but pales by comparison with the first rate 'Cyborg' tapes. There are several slight imperfections during the recording but l doubt very much that this will detract from the overall enjoyment of having this fantastic recording of the performance in your collection. Musically it is superb with so much going on,( obviously Klaus didn't sit still for long!!), the breadth and scope of the material produced here is again outstanding when you bare in mind that this is just one guy with afew prepared sequences 'flying by the seat of his pants'!!!

The set opens up with all kinds on modular weirdness tripping off, just think of the more epic choral sections of the 'X' album and you've got it. Within minutes we move over seamlessly into some of the undercurrents from the 'Mirage' album, a basic sequence arriving at the seven minute mark. Klaus improvises away as further augmentation arrives some eight minutes later and thing's are really moving along now. This mid tempo sequence now having found its feet, Klaus reaches for the Minimoog and some serious soloing gets underway. At the twenty minute mark he steps up the sequencer tempo and off we go again at helter skelter pace with more frenetic filtered twists and turns as he again turns up the tempo afew minutes later to breakneck speed, things getting truly wild as he spars with the sequencer. Musically we can't last too long at this speed, but yet again he cranks up the tempo as the soloing stops and the sequencer rattles off dramatically like a runaway train until at the half hour mark the wheels come off!!! Events gradually subsiding into a mid tempo electronic soup, brilliantly done. A light sequence emerges from the lull, this again is absolutely first class Schulze, l take my hat off to the man as he pulls everything together perfectly. Three quarters of an hour into the recording now and a steady swoosh of white noise takes us into the closing section with a hollow sounding synth lead and strings sounding not unlike the more sedate moments of 'Blackdance'. Another gentle brush of white noise bringing the set to its conclusion and the audience approve!!!! A flawless set and faultless performance. With a recording like this we can only get the merest hint of just how good the live event must have been.
Review by Synth Music Direct

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[depechemodevilla]

thanks for posting this!!

[RichieFZ]

@depechemodevilla You're welcome :-)

[GlacialThinker]

RichieFZ, thanks! Thorough descriptions, well tagged, and you've populated YouTube with all these fantastic full-length recordings! A while back I wanted to post links to some Klaus I listen to... but the selection was sparse and usually short excerpts which don't build up correctly. :) I need to get the re-release of Cyborg for this track... love it! And I hope the re-release has the Urs Amann cover as you have pictured.

[RichieFZ]

@GlacialThinker Thanks for your kind words :-)

[AnotherChannel2]

The comments box only allows for so many words, so I couldn't include this in my previous comment: THANK YOU times ONE HUNDRED!!

PS: My 'little one' thanks you too! We often play epic adventure games in our living room, and this is EXACTLY the type of music we enjoy hearing, during our imaginary stories (good versus evil, etc). Music for pondering... music for triumph...music for tragedy...music for mystery...music for discovery... Your channel is definitely in our 'bookmarks.'

[RichieFZ]

@AnotherChannel2

Glad you enjoy the music. Thank you :-)

[eetherealflux]

awesome tune and great album art

[ancientraver19881989]

monumentally good tune

[Marakandeia]

@MrSYSTEM20 You Lucky one!! so...there´s A LOT to enjoy!!!!!

[MrSYSTEM20]

OMG...I JUST discovered Klaus just today...I have never heard of him before...he is my new hero...his music is incredible...fascinating...tak­es the mind and the ear on an Atmospheric Soundscape that erases the boundries of sound and imagination...I am a sound designer myself, and I can only aspire to become as great as he....he is my new inspiration...from this point forward !

[coldfusion12]

Wow! Thanks so much for the upload and excellent description. The track is truly beyond words...

[atheistcable]

"I consider Klaus's and Tangerine Dream's music the best in the world"--AC2. My thoughts exactly. The best music for all centuries. This is truly 21st century music.

[emdotambient]

Awesome! I've replaced the 5 or so videos of this song that used to be in my Space Music playlist with this complete version...Total gratitude, dude!

[GamerX7800X]

I just was in space for 50 mins!