Blackdance
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| Studio album by Klaus Schulze | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | May 1974 | |||
| Genre | Electronic music, Space music | |||
| Length | 48:32 (original) 73:52 (reissue) |
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| Label | Brain, Virgin | |||
| Producer | Klaus Schulze | |||
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| Allmusic |   link |
| Fiki | (8.7/10) |
Blackdance is the third album by Klaus Schulze. It was originally released in 1974, and in 2007 was the twenty-fifth Schulze album reissued by Revisited Records. For the first time Schulze uses "real" synthesizers and a singer. "Voices of Syn" features Ernst Walter Siemon on vocals. Due to packaging and print errors on later releases, Blackdance was considered Schulze's fourth album for decades, until Klaus D. Müller, Schulze's biographer and publicity manager, discovered from searching through his personal diaries that Picture Music, thought to be the third album, was recorded after Blackdance. Despite this, the reissue labels Blackdance as Schulze's fourth album.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Klaus Schulze.
| No. | Title | Note | Length |
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| 1. | "Ways of Changes" | on original release | 17:14 |
| 2. | "Some Velvet Phasing" | on original release | 8:24 |
| 3. | "Voices of Syn" | on original release | 22:40 |
| 4. | "Foreplay" | reissue bonus track | 10:33 |
| 5. | "Synthies Have (No) Balls?" | reissue bonus track | 14:42 |
Personnel
- Klaus Schulze – synthesizer, organ, piano, percussion, 12-string acoustic guitar
- Ernst Walter Siemon: voice (on "Voices of Syn")
External links
- Blackdance at the official site of Klaus Schulze
- Blackdance at Discogs (list of releases)
