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In 1979, Time Actor was the frst album that Klaus Schulze released under the pseudonym Richard Wahnfried - The name was both, a reference to Richard Wagner, whom he admired, and to Klaus Schulze's son Richard.Artistically, Richard Wahnfried was a new beginning at the time.
Several threads came together in this project: on the one hand, Klaus Schulze, not least because of his work with the All Star project Go, had a great desire to play with musicians outside of the electronic genre; on the other hand, this album was, like the upcoming Richard Wahnfried releases, strongly infuenced by the musicians with whom Klaus Schulze played in the respective phases.In the case of Wahnfried's debut "Time Actor", these were the Santana- drummer Michael Shrieve, with whom Klaus Schulze had already played on Go and on later Schulze albums such as "Audentity", the cellist Wolfgang Tiepold, the keyboardist Vincent Crane, as well as Arthur Brown.
Brown, who became famous with the 1960s hit "Fire", was also featured on the Schulze album "Dune" (1979), released at the same time, and on Schulze's frst live album in 1980. Brown now played a central role on "Time Actor": For six of the seven tracks he wrote, improvised and sang or recited his own texts on the subject of time, much more freely, more theatrical and more exalted than he is known from the album "Dune", partly alienated by the harmonizer.
Tracklist
Time Actor
Time Factory
Charming The Wind
Grandma's Clockwork
Distorted Emission I
The Silent Sound Of The Ground
Time Echoes
Soundwave
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