#synthesisers

KLAUS ENCOUNTERS | DEPARTURE AND RETURN

A Dozen Klaus Schulze Albums Worthy Of Consideration When Klaus Schulze died on 26 April 2022 the world lost one of its foundation rock-electronic composers and a cornerstone of the early German indie music scene that became known as ‘Krautrock’. As someone who discovered his drifting, droning, pulsating synthesiser music back in the 1970s, I found myself in that odd state where loss jostles with…

#646 Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

A classic crossover jazz album, fusing funk, soul and electric synths with improvisational jazz. Head Hunters was the first jazz album to sell over a million copies. It’s not too hyperbolic to suggest that it changed the face of jazz. That, on its release in 1973, it lit the path for a new direction in jazz. Hancock had already been experimenting with his previous few albums (Crossings in…

Ciani navigates the clunky music hardware with ease and little-to-no constraint. So much so that it’s entertaining in itself to visibly watch the musician manipulate the synthesised noises, and anticipating whatever wacky noise is about to blurt out of the machine. In her slot on the David Letterman Show in 1980 she probably isn’t the best answerer, giggling at times when the host queries, though who can blame her when she’s preoccupied with the equipment beheld to her that can generate a more compelling response, rather than a simple human response.

*shrug* so, we meet again *duck*