New Klaus Schulze book

Written by Glenn Folkvord

last updated 2008-12-07 21:19 CET

Greg Allen has written a new book about Klaus Schulze, the German electronic music legend and veteran. The book contains full length reviews of close to 80 CDs, new interviews and a detailed overview of Schulze's carreer.

Greg Allen's new book on Klaus Schulze.

Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend is a celebration of the pioneering career of German electronic music legend Klaus Schulze. At the forefront of the development of music played on synthesizers, Schulze was an important figure in the movement that created a whole new style of music, beginning with his initial 1972 release, Irrlicht.

This new book hails Schulze as the most important electronic musician ever and lays out the case for that lofty status. Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend chronicles Schulze's career in great detail and contains full length reviews by Greg Allen of close to 80 CDs.

The book also contains stories, anecdotes and inside information on Schulze's career by his long time publisher Klaus D. Mueller.

New interviews and / or contributions are also present from an array of Klaus' collaborators and other prominent electronic musicians: Harald Grosskopf, Arthur Brown, Michael Shrieve, Marian Gold, Robert Rich, Steve Roach, Dennis Rea (Earthstar), Kitaro, Joerg Schaaf, Thomas Kagermann, Julia Messenger, Klaus D. Mueller and Klaus Schulze himself. Pictures from Klaus Schulze's private collection are also included.

Furthermore the book offers an analyzis of prevailing social conditions and attitudes in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s relevant to Schulze's career path, studio and synthesizer information, Schulze’s early life as well as many collaborations, an extensive discography and much more.

The 320-page A4-size book is published by self-publishing specialists trafford.com and you can get more information at klausschulzebook.com

Steve Roach comments on the book;

Your book...congrats, a true labor of love and you have to be proud....You did a nice job on a vast subject, the majority of the interviews are cool, informative and some behind the scenes looks one almost never reads about.

Review extracts:

Mark Jenkins / Keyboard Player magazine: "Greg Allen has made an excellent job of creating the first large scale book on Klaus Schulze, combining interviews, history, photos and his personal album assessments into a fascinating insight on the man's career [...] taken as a whole, the book is something unique, an extremely well-balanced combinations of review reprints, personal assessments, and background interviews with Schulze collaborators from Japanese keyboardist Kitaro to German pop icon Marian Gold".

Julia Messenger: "Hey Greg! Congratulations on your fantastic book! It's awesome! It's such a beautifully detailed and well done 'anthology' of Klaus' work... :-)".