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A phone call at nine on a Monday morning. Nanu? ...another fan asking me urgently for a copy of ANDROMEDA ? ... No.
A German woman's voice, "Albrecht. De-und-Ha," and if I can help. They don't know what connection I have to Klaus Schulze but they saw my name on the official website and maybe I can help them. Okay, I said, what is it?
They wanted to buy old titles from KS. "Old titles? What old titles? You mean from CDs?" I asked, and "what for?" Yes, they want to buy some old titles from KS. "Don't you know that the 'old titles' are released with big record companies?" I asked, "...and most of it is still available" - realising that the woman on the other side don't know too much about 'Klaus Schulze'. I tried to explain: "Schulze's recordings are released by record companies, you should ask them. You mentioned the official KS website, you must have seen this."
She was a bit puzzled that Schulze has not the rights to "sell" his early recordings to her company (of which I have never heard before): "But Schulze must be able to sell us his titles?! We make compilations, as we did, for instance, with 'Mythos', and others," she said a bit proudly. "Ach ja? One of those cheap oldies samplers?" I tickled her. "No, no," she answered, "we make high-grate samplers." Yes, she mentioned the word "hochwertig", and obviously she did not know one thing about the artist they want to release.
"On which labels he was, then?" she asked a bit sceptically. My reply was quickly: "WEA, EMI, Virgin, Universal..., and you should contact those companies, they have the recording rights, but not Schulze. And this is common procedure in this business, for samplers and for other use." I waited that she also asked me for the addresses of these (well-known) companies, but no such or any other question came. What came from her instead, were some bitter words, and I hung up. It seemed to me that she was pretty new in that music record business. ...
In the kitchen, while preparing my coffee, I thought this over, and found the story quite amusing. Of course not so amusing for the poor girl - Miss Albrecht - whose job it is to find and to call diverse (long-forgotten? she may think) artists and ask them for their early recordings and if they can buy it cheaply for re-release on samplers.

(entry in THE KS CIRCLE, March 2004 edition)

German, Italian and British Amazon list already... -- with the reservation: "not yet released" and (except for the Italians:) with no price given -- ...the coming historic concert recording on a double CD and double LP, called "Stars are Burning", produced again by yours truly. Readers of "The KS Circle" know more.
Yesterday I have seen the lay-out of the double LP cover, made some small corrections, and now things go their usual way. Hopefully, in a short time the album will be available, on double LP as well as double CD.

Oh, before I forget, for the dealers here's the cat.-no.: Mirumir MIR 100719 LP and MIR 100719 CD

PS:
27 October. Please note that the label has just changed the catalogue numbers:
Double CD = Mirumir MIR 100734 CDD
Double LP = Mirumir MIR 100735 DLP

...mit "Big in Europe Vol. 2 - Amsterdam"?

The CDs contain the pure music only, without any applause or anouncements.
The DVD with the complete concert (118 minutes, same music as on the CDs) contains also the applause and all announcements by KS, as well as Lisa's sincere words at the concert's end.

There is some talk about our Klaus Schulze in a recent (from yesterday) podcast; and one of the four nice guys even seems to know a bit more about KS.
The topic "Klaus Schulze" is only for the first 16 minutes of the very long podcast. Otherwise: a lot of technical stuff.

Yes, the former 'Jeeves' site is now headed kdm, simply because most of the readers know me better & much longer as 'kdm', the old friend & companion of 'KS', ...the publisher of many of his titles, ...and producer of some music albums. Also, I will write now my contributions here as 'kdm'.
Technically, it is still "jeeves.blogger.de", this cannot be changed. Maybe I should have thought a few more minutes about the name, when I started the blog.
When I started this, it was a test, I was curious how weblogs work and if I can handle it. Yes, it was fun to try out such a weblog ...and I have used the first positively connoted foreign name that came to my mind: I had just finished watching for the third time all episodes of Jeeves & Wooster with Fry and Laurie. After 4½ blog years as 'Jeeves' it is time now to put my real name here on top and also under my articles and comments.
In my official KS website there is and there never was the possibility for the user and music listener to react promptly (Stan & Ollie would say "in a jiffy"), e.g. to make comments or to ask questions. Here you can do it. Still.

There is another interview with KS, this time in Portuguese. But there is also an English translation.

Just coming in, the front cover of the new concert set with the full Amsterdam concert on 20 September 2009, on two CDs ...and DVDs that contains also the whole two hours concert, and an additional "moogumentary 2" of 70 minutes. The release is still planned for September.

The title list will follow soon.
(For some dealers, who had asked me in the past to include this prosaic info here: The cat.no. will be MIG 01060).

as usual: one click here above can make it larger (but not longer)

We will put a list of ALL of Klaus' concerts from the late sixties up to his last in 2010 in Tokyo in the official Klaus Schulze website . Webmaster Lennart is still working on Kleinigkeiten... odds and ends, I mean ...has just finished the perfect work & uploaded it.