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»The cover for the DUNE LP: For this album I was searching for a SciFi
image becauce DUNE was made by KS with Frank Herbert's "Dune" books in
mind. I made many polaroids for it (a new toy that I owned), including
crazy sessions with KS: his head covered with silver paper, or he
fumbles around with strange things, or he's in shorts, or wearing silly
caps... These polaroids still exist. Then I had a time when I liked to
make snapshots from a tv programme or video. Finally I used an image
from the "Solaris" movie (Tarkovsky, 1972) and I made plenty of photos
from "Solaris" video stills from my home tv monitor. The letraset
letters "D U N E K L A U S S C H U L Z E" I had glued at the bottom
of my TV's glass screen, and a piece of thin string I had put across the
monitor (...and don't ask me what I tried to express with that thin
string). Metronome was afraid first, if we can use the title DUNE - so I asked the book publisher if Klaus Schulze can release an album called "Dune" in honour of Frank Herbert and shortly after I could show the record company a letter which tells me that Frank Herbert himself has no objections. Probably I had impressed the Metronome people so very much with my commitment that they also wanted to do something good: it was a Metronome guy who had the great idea to give the album a glossy silver surface. I agreed, and indeed the result looked pretty smart.« (kdm, from The KS Circle no. 181, April 2012) |
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»For about a quarter of a century I have been putting off writing this,
simply because I thought the message would not reach Klaus, and time
elapsed, and I never thought about internet connectivity, and I grew
older and greyer, but seeing this website (https://klaus-schulze.com)
made me realise that if there is any chance at all to tell Klause
something I would wish to do so. It is this: in 1979, purely on the basis of a brilliant glossy cover, I bought Dune in England. I listened a couple of times and was interested, nothing more. Then, the third time, I listened in the dark at night, and I was so overwhelmed by the emotional power of the music that half-way through I had to turn the light on and - very carefully - lift the needle from the Ip. I left it in correct position - recovered myself, I was crying - and eventually listened to the second half. When I finished listening, I knew it was not only the most extraordinary piece of music I had ever listened to, but that the half an hour I had been through was the most extraordinary of my life. I also sensed - I don't know how - that I would never feel the level of excitement, communion, spirituality, call it whatever, that I felt then ever again. I just knew. Since then many other pieces by you, Klaus, have affected me deeply, but I just wanted to tell you that never, ever in my life - and I have listened to so much more music, and am a deep classical music fan - have I ever been so alive as that time and the many times afterwards I listened to Dune. Once I was over a friend's house playing it for him and he was only half-listening and I didn't want him to talk, I was so moved and I couldn't understand why he wasn't - I wanted him to shut up and listen! This may all sound like sentimental babbling, but actually I'm not especially sentimental or inclined this way. This is just a toast to you - nearly 25 years later, and this piece of music is STILL throbbing in my heart, you genius.« (Cliff, from The KS Circle no. 85, September 2003) |
