Timewind

Klaus Schulze was a big fan of composer Richard Wagner, and the two side-long tracks on this 1975 LP are both named in tribute to him. “Bayreuth Return” is a reference to the town which stages an annual festival of Wagner’s music, while “Wahnfried 1883” is named after his house there, and the year in which he was buried. “Bayreuth Return” is a long, live-in-the-studio jam recorded to two-track and features a simple, pulsing sequencer pattern, melodic extrapolations, and sound effects, all of which bring to mind Pink Floyd circa Wish You Were Here. “Wahnfried 1883” is one of Schulze’s more timeless, staring-out-at-an-endless-field-of-stars pieces, big chords replacing one another at a seemingly glacial pace.