Timewind

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Timewind

Studio album by Klaus Schulze
Released	August 1975
Recorded	March, June 1975
Genre	Electronic music, Space music
Length	59:13 115:27 (2006 Re-release)
Label	Brain, Virgin
Producer(s)	Klaus Schulze
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Klaus Schulze chronology
Picture Music (1975)	Timewind (1975)	Moondawn (1976)

Timewind is the fifth album by Klaus Schulze.

For many years this was his only work available in the United States and was therefore rated higher by American listeners than 1977's Mirage or "X" of the following year. Timewind was Schulze's first solo album to use a sequencer.

Evolving slowly but deliberately over the course of the of each album side, Timewind has been deemed an electronic version of an Indian raga. It resembles in many ways a longer variation of the third track from Tangerine Dream's classic 1974 album Phaedra, "Movements of a Visionary", but it remains a transitional work somewhere between the Krautrock of Schulze's earlier output and the Berlin School character of his following efforts. The intention of Timewind was to invoke a timeless state in the listener.

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"Bayreuth Return" – 30:25
- Recorded on two-track equipment in one take, this piece is essentially a live work. It is interesting to hear how the sequence continues to change even as Schulze is soloing on the keys. The velocity of the brassy early section gives way to a melancholy woodwind-like dirge in the middle, followed by an energetic climax in the last few minutes. The track ends with a gratuitous burst of noise that is quite startling.
"Wahnfried 1883" – 28:37
- After an avant-garde section with electronics and a tape echo, a stately solo lead enters and gradually gives way to a hypnotic drone that changes almost too slowly to detect, sometimes arriving at wavering tones that are utterly beautiful. In contrast to the improvised first track, this piece was carefully plotted out like a piece of architecture, as indicated by the drawing by Schulze on the back of the original LP.