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At least, the next volume of our LA VIE ELECTRONIQUE series is ready for release:
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Cat-No.: MiG 00782 3CD
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Two of the three CDs contain a long title each, that were before on CD 1 and CD 5 of 'Jubilee Edition' (& Discs 21 & 25 of 'The Ultimate Edition'): 'Tradition and Vision' and 'Opera Trance'.
The third CD has 12 shorter tracks from '93 to '98, nine of them were also on 'Jubilee Edition' or 'The Ultimate Edition'; three tracks were not on any of these long deleted multi-CD sets.
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No release date known yet, for LVE 14 ... (most probably it will be during this autumn).

Das Label hat erneut(!) das Veröffentlichungsdatum verschoben, nun soll es also der 27. September sein.
(Reklame & Daten für ein neues Klaus-Schulze-Set sollte man erst an die Öffentlichkeit bringen, wenn das Produkt soweit fertig ist, dass man mit gutem Gewissen vernünftige Aussagen dazu veröffentlichen kann. Das ist seriöser als sowas: 28. Juni --> 26. Juli --> 30. August --> 27. September. ... Dieser Tipp ist kostenlos).

Da ist sie schon wieder, eine dieser absurden, nichtssagenden und dämlichen Behauptungen(*) resp. die Nachplapperei & Abschreiberei, die vor Jahren schon jemand (M. Allison selbst?) folgendermaßen verulkt und richtiggestellt hat: "William Faulkner, der Schriftsteller und Nobelpreisträger, der auch 'Mose Allison of Writing' genannt wird."
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(* z.B. heute im Kulturradio von RBB)

...to all who have sent birthday greetings and good wishes for Klaus Schulze, by mail and in letters.

The Iranian culture magazine "Aftabnet" contained a nice Klaus Schulze interview, called "With Suitcase in Shadowlands". (The "suitcase" is Klaus' old EMS synthi that he still uses).
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I like to point out: very friendly people, the Iranians.
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Here is a translation of the above's intro to the interview:
Music sounds have always attracted us and this has made musicians look for new methods of discovering new timbres and sounds. This is one the major reasons for birth of electronic music. Kind of music which based on technological evolution and various electronic devices has provided musicians with possibilities to create their own innovative and abstract music. At first, this kind of innovation, creation and experimentalism included only artistic music but later on, these methods and possibilities attracted many other musicians in Rock and Pop music as well and even led them into new genres. This division from the beginning, causes different point of views of each group : Electronic artistic genre and public genre. Before the presence of electronic music in Disco music in 80s, it was applied in Progressive Rock (which was based on classical theories) and Psychedelic Rock in which bands like Pink Floyd were pioneers or artists/bands like Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Alan Parson, Kraftwerk and a new approach into electronic sounds was created and made electronic music genre which in many cases, got close again to its artistic form. Klaus Schulze, German musician, player and producer has a specific place in this period with his unique music ideas and a totally different approach. He who was born on August 4, 1947 has released more than 50 albums during the last 5 decades and is considered one of the most important and effective faces of artistic electronic music. Schulze is a smart, ambitious artist and of course with a strong sense of humor that usually causes him to avoid answering any question he doesn’t like specially when it comes to explain about his music in a very sweet way. In this interview, when we asked him about his reaction into repetition and cycling nature of electronic music, he answered: “Cycling? I don’t even have a bicycle!”

A propos Walter Jens. Einen Satz, den der kluge Mann in den späten Sechzigern schrieb, hab ich noch im Kopf: "Ein gescheites Wort, schon ist man Kommunist".
Ich hab den Satz damals groß mit weißer Farbe an eine Kreuzberger Mauer gepinselt (Graffiti kannte man noch nicht). Es war in der Görlitzer Straße, die Mauer zum ex-Bahnhof. Ich wohnte da: Hinterhof ein Zimmer, Außentoilette. Von einer grünen Bürgermeisterin unterstützte Drogenhändler gab's damals dort NICHT.