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Ob KS nochmal was Gutes macht und veröffentlicht? ...was richtig Gutes? ...was Neues? ...was Schönes? ...was Altmodisches? ...was Sensationelles? ...was die Leute vom Stuhl reißt? Oder soll ich weiter nach alten Aufnahmen forschen und sie anbieten? ... Am besten wäre ja beides.

Mit stillschweigender Duldung des Teufels schlage ich eine Zeitung des Jahres 2063 auf, und in irgendeinem Artikel im Kulturteil lese ich: "Keiner hört heutzutage Klaus Schulze oder Fulmerford." Schreckliche Frage: Wer ist dieser unselige Fulmerford?(ausgeborgt bei Nabokov)

With the devils connivance, I open a newspaper of 2063 and in some article on music I find: "Nobody hears Klaus Schulze or Fulmerford today." Awful question: Who is this unfortunate Fulmerfort?(borrowed from Nabokov)
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"Here is a new cartoon I drew these days. the title is: Music can defeat Corona. Best wishes for you and Klaus Schulze."(Mohammad Reza Akbari)
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Der neue "Circle" ging heute in die Post. Wenn er nicht pünktlich ankommen sollte, liegt das wohl an den momentanen Umständen.
. . . . Einen kleinen Fehler im Text möchte ich hier korrigieren. (Muss es sein? Es muss sein!). Da steht im Artikel über Plattensammlungen auf Seite 6: "... schon in einem Alter, der ihnen nahe legt, gleiches zu tun..."; es muss natürlich heißen: "...in einem Alter, das ihnen nahe liegt".

During our Schulze concerts in the seventies, when an apparatus didn't work properly, I used a simple (and in a way barbaric) trick to make it work again.
. . . . When I read in Januar 2001 the interview that Peter Bogdanovich did in 1965 with film director Fritz Lang, I smiled and my concert memories came back. Famous film director Lang spoke about the work on his movie "M" in 1931: "The sound engineer had a wooden hammer, and every time something didn't work with the equipment, he took his hammer and just used it."
. . . . 45 years later and without knowing about the manners of Fritz Lang's sound engineer, I used my fist or foot. It worked too, then. Mostly.

The very first review of a KS album, from the USA, 47 years ago:

Let's face it, Germany has never been known as a breeding ground for rock music. So, what else was there? If you're interested in electronic music you have to check it out. ... Schulze's effort is available separately as "Irrlicht: Quadrophonische Symphonie für Orchester und E-Maschinen". None of it is exactly the kind of stuff you're likely to hear on AM radio. Much of it is really remarkable, especially in its use of the synthesizer to produce non-synthesized (original) sounds as a basis for complex and extended musical compositions. ...

An Australian asked a tongue-in-cheek question:

I have just purchased the re-release of Virtual Outback and it is rapidly becoming a favourite from many 'favourites' of KS's enormous back catalogue. Does the man ever sleep?

Which gave me - and I took - the chance for a bit of calculation:

Ever sleep? Oh yes, and very long!
. . . . Take for instance the huge set of 50 CDs, "The Ultimate Edition", it includes 64 hours of music, which KS had recorded between the late sixties and 1999. Sixtyfour hours out of 262,800 hours (thirty years) = this is under 0.025% of the available time during thirty years.
. . . . And, if you add the same amount of recorded music (another 64 hours) for the regular releases during these 30 years... this little calculation would simply mean (to my own astonishment): Don't worry, Klaus had still 99.95 % of his time for sleeping, eating, thinking, reading, etc...

From an interview 15 years ago:
Q.: How do you think your German background, education and lifestyle has influenced your music? Do you think you would have become the same artist if you grew up in Italy or England?
KS: "What would been, if..." is a question that leads to nowhere :-)

Since the seventies we have some American friends and fans of Klaus, who were doing a radio program then; ...and they still do it. During the past 40 years they have regularly played his music.

Actually, in this week (from 3rd to the 9th of January), Klaus is again featured in their one-hour radio show "Hearts of Space"; you can listen to it here!

The first issue of the year 2020 will be posted on Monday the 30th of December ...at least to those who have renewed their membership.