Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - Farscape (2008)

Klaus Schulze recorded with Lisa Gerrard a new album called 'Farscape'. Lisa Gerrard (former Dead Can Dance) entered Klaus Schulze's studio in late November 2007, to record her voice for her collaboration with Klaus. The album is a new studio album and consists of two cd's with a total of 7 tracks featuring Klaus Schulze's trademark electronic music and Lisa Gerrard's vocals.

Label: Synthetic Symphony
Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 04 Jul 2008

Editor's note

Klaus Schulze is a visionary. A dreamer. And he is well known for making
his dreams come true. For a long time now he has wanted to collaborate
with extremely gifted vocalist Lisa Gerrard. Now he made his wish come
true. The result is the new double album called Farscape. Never before
have you experienced Schulze, whose oeuvre is full of emotionally
gripping music, in a more emotional framework. Schulze is an
institution, a living legend, he was member of electronic pop icons such
as Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel and since 1972 he has released a
plethora of solo albums. He has provided remixes for a variety of
interesting bands and he has collaborated with a large cast of other
tallented and innovative artists. The Moog specialist and confessed
Wagner fanatic has been a flickering will-o-the-wisp within the music
scene for nearly four decades.



Review
Alex Henderson at Allmusic.com:
On August 4, 2007, Klaus Schulze celebrated his 60th birthday. Most
electronica providers of 2007 and 2008 were not as old as Schulze, but
then, Schulze is someone who–like Brian Eno and Kraftwerk–was using
synthesizers before they were truly in vogue and before many of today's
electronica artists were even born. Thankfully, Schulze hasn't run out
of ideas after all these years, and on Farscape, he fulfills a long-time
ambition: collaborating with Australian singer Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can
Dance fame). This two-CD set is best described as an extended piece that
lasts 153 minutes; that piece, which is titled "Liquid Coincidence," is
broken down into seven parts. Schulze handles the electronic programming
on this 2008 release, while Gerrard provides all of the vocals–and all
seven parts of "Liquid Coincidence" have a floating, airy, atmospheric
quality. Some listeners might find "Liquid Coincidence" to be overly
repetitive and argue that the piece drags on too long, but to complain
that "Liquid Coincidence" is repetitious sort of misses the point.
Farscape is not about showing Schulze's diversity; it is about mood,
atmosphere and ambiance. Schulze is going for musical hypnosis, and
Gerrard's haunting performances help him to achieve that. Yes, "Liquid
Coincidence" is repetitive; it was meant to be, and it is repetitive in
a good way. Together, Schulze and Gerrard create a hauntingly attractive
mood, and the fact that they maintain that mood for 153 minutes is a
plus rather than a minus. That said, Farscape is not among Schulze's
essential albums, and Gerrard's performances don't quite rise to the
level of her best work with Dead Can Dance. But all things considered,
Schulze and Gerrard's collaboration is an appealing, if predictable,
success.

Tracklist

CD I
1. Liquid Coincidence 1 (22:03)
2. Liquid Coincidence 2 (30:56)
3. Liquid Coincidence 3 (25:54)

CD II
1. Liquid Coincidence 4 (18:24)
2. Liquid Coincidence 5 (18:52)
3. Liquid Coincidence 6 (24:06)
4. Liquid Coincidence 7 (13:38)

Credits:
Artwork By [Cover & Layout] - Thomas Ewerhard
Composed By, Keyboards - Klaus Schulze
Lyrics By, Voice - Lisa Gerrard
Photography - Christian Piednoir , Peter Fitt
Recorded By [Voice] - Tom Dams

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