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 2: Timbres of Ice

This disc features 76 minutes. There are three tracks.

Commencing with loving acoustic guitar, the first track is a delicate excursion into dreamy ambience. The electronics float with atmospheric demeanor, excellently evoking "The Lonely Dead of Midnight".

The second track ("They Shut Him Out of Paradise") employs vocals (which started as a high female voice before Schulze treated it into a ghostly male baritone) which usher in Schulze's signature electronics: lavish drones and pingponging effects and intricate E-perc. In typical Schulze fashion, the music accretes slowly, with passages unfurling and amply defining themselves before moving to the next phase. Guitar sneaks into the mix (or maybe its just Schulze's versatile keyboards), while those vocals persist throughout the whole piece. This track lasts 42 minutes.

The third track ("Die Prophezeiung erfullt sich") again utilizes vocal stylings throughout its 23 minutes length. This time, the voice is treated into a state which leaves it devoid of much humanity. Schulze's music dances around the garbled syllables as if bewildered by these enunciation. Languid atmospherics mingle with quasi-wooden E-perc and shrill keyboard squeals to produce an ethereal immersion for these tooled utterances.


CD 2 "Timbres Of Ice"
1. The Lonely Dead of Midnight (10.51)
2. They Shut Him Out of Paradise (41.41)
3. Die Prophezeiung erfullt sich (23.15)