Dune

The title track from Dune is harsh and avant-garde; the endlessly drifting cosmic rays of previous Schulze albums are absent, replaced by theremin-like croons, sounds like massive glass bowls being rubbed by giant wet fingers, and cello (played by Wolfgang Tiepold). The side-long piece could serve as a fairly terrifying movie score. The album’s second side, “Shadows Of Ignorance,” is a pulsing, almost danceable track on which Arthur Brown (of The Crazy World Of…) recites a long poem written — in English — by Schulze and Tiepold offers staccato bowed accents.