Dune (Klaus Schulze album)

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Dune
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Released1979
RecordedApril and May 1979
Genre Electronic music, space music
Length56:23 (original)
79:26 (reissue)
Label Brain
Producer Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze chronology
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Dune is the eleventh album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1979, and in 2005 was the tenth Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. "Shadows of Ignorance" features Arthur Brown on vocals, half-singing/half-chanting a long poem written by Schulze.

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The cover photograph was taken by Schulze himself, who arranged black letters on a television screen and took a snapshot during a scene of the Soviet science fiction film Solaris .

The album was inspired in part by the 1965 Frank Herbert science-fiction novel Dune , which would remain a lifelong source of fascination for Schulze; his final album, 2022's Deus Arrakis , was also inspired by the book, and Schulze also contributed to the soundtrack for Dennis Villeneuve's 2021 film adaptation. [2]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Klaus Schulze.

No.TitleNoteLength
1."Dune"on original release30:28
2."Shadows of Ignorance"on original release26:20
3."Le Mans"reissue bonus track23:03

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Krakow, Steve (2022-06-17). "Electronic music master Klaus Schulze leaves us a riveting posthumous record". Chicago Reader . Retrieved 2023-06-21.