Totentag

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Totentag
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Studio album by
Released1 September 1994
RecordedMarch 1992 to August 1993
Genre Electronic music, space music, opera
Length103:42
Label ZYX
Producer Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze chronology
Goes Classic
(1994)
Totentag
(1994)
Das Wagner Desaster Live
(1994)
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Totentag is an electronic opera and the twenty-ninth album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1994; its libretto is inspired by the last days of the expressionist poet Georg Trakl. This is the seventh and last of the early-1990s Klaus Schulze albums not to be reissued by Revisited Records. Totentag was released after Schulze's Silver Edition 10-disc CD box set, technically making this album his thirty-ninth.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Klaus Schulze.

Disc 1

No.TitleLength
1."Prelude/Apotheke "Zum weißen Engel""17:32
2."Liebesszene"13:46
3."Im Bordell"14:02
4."Das Leere Theater"13:53

Disc 2

No.TitleLength
1."In Venedig"12:10
2."Grodek"7:31
3."Der Freitod"24:47

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References

  1. Brenholts, Jim. Totentag at AllMusic