Klaus Schulze: Moondawn (1976)

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Klaus Schulze - Moondawn

KS Canon 6

Track Listing:

1.	Floating	27:13
2.	Mindphaser	25:35

Bonus Tracks:

3.

Floating Sequence

21:11

Notes:
(1) Harald Großkopf plays drums.
(2) The vocals at the start of "Floating" are a recording of the Lord's Prayer in Arabic.

Rating: 5 Stars

It's difficult for me to say which is my favourite Klaus Schulze album. Out of the first five albums I preferred "Irrlicht", although "Picture Music" and "Timewind" came very close. However, when I returned home with "Moondawn" and played it the first time it overtook "Irrlicht" and became my favourite album. The strong use of sequencers in the first track is hypnotic, while the second track has a rock music feeling about it without being rock music.

When "Moondawn" was first released on CD in 1990 a small change was made. Klaus noticed a small clicking noise in the fade-out at the end of "Floating" that annoyed him. It was the sound of the studio tape machine which could only be heard in very quiet passages. He asked the musician Georg Stettner to play a mellotron chord to be mixed in to replace the fade-out. This only lasted a few seconds, but there were many complaints from fans of the original LP. Klaus Schulze's publisher kdm took the side of the fans and decided that all future releases of the album should be without the alteration, which he described as unnatural.

The bonus track is an alternative version of the sequencer tracks for "Floating". It's interesting to listen to, but it's not up to the quality of the track included on the original album.