Post Description

Recorded:  2001/2002 at Moldau Studio, Hambühren. Final mixes in June/July 2002
First Release: September 2002, on Rainhorse Records
Performed by: Klaus Schulze (electronics, keyboards, guitar)
Wolfgang Tiepold (cello)
Thomas Kagermann (arabian flute, violin, vocals)
Julia Messenger (vocals)
Audrey Motaung (vocals)
Tobias Becker (oboe, english horn)
Mickes (guitar)

Disc 3: Another Green Mile

This disc features 71 minutes. Although segregated into five tracks of varying length, from 4 to 28 minutes, the music flows seamlessly and uninterrupted.

Once again, Schulze's diverse electronics share the mix with oboe, cello, voice, and guitar. After a quasi-classical opening of pastoral cello and minimal tones, the music enters a vocal passage that evokes walking in the rain accompanied by percussives that evolve rhythms from hesitant beats. It is at this point that Schulze's familiar style gradually emerges to commandeer the melody. Complexity and stately wisdom increase with each passing minute, building to greater velocity and more demonstrative structure. The cello plays an integral part here, injecting an arid quality to the chugging pace. The reappearance of non-lyrical vocals signals the launch of a more pensive passage as electronic texture drift over a foundation of gently pattering synthetic bongos. Although coherent lyrics begin to creep into the melody, the vocals are generally restrained to more expressive warbles, lending the music an operatic demeanor.

There is a brief, almost imperceptible pause before the last track commences. "Follow Me Down, Follow Me Down", the CD's 28 minute piece, exhibits more pep and vitality than the previous tracks, shedding the contemplative disposition for a more celebratory sound. The E-perc rises in tempo and intricacy, the electronics rouse to more compelling expressions. The spiraling descent becomes enlivened by nimble keyboards and snarling guitar. Vocals briefly emerge, cleverly garbled into an elfish chitter, only to be overpowered by the sedately searing guitar. This guitar presence lends the music a decidedly ECM jazz quality that marks it as an exciting departure from anything previously encountered in Schulze's more-than-three-decade-long career. Those elfin mutterings return, replete with even greater distortions, as the percussion grows snappier and the guitar more selective in its choice of explosive outbursts.


CD 3 "Another Green Mile"
1. Between Twilight and Dawn (13.20)
2. In The Streets,in the Rain (4.33)
3. The Wisdom of the Leaves (12.27)
4. The Story Does Unfold (12.05)
5. Follow Me Down,Follow Me Down (28.46)