Klaus Schulze: Babel (1987)

Klaus Schulze - Babel

Track Listing:

1.

Babel

59:45

Notes: Andreas Grosser plays keyboards.

Rating: 5 Stars

This album was originally referred to as Klaus Schulze's 22nd album, but like "Drive Inn" and "Aphrica" it's been removed from the Klaus Schulze canon. In the discography section of Klaus Schulze's official web site it's been relegated to a "collaboration with other artists", even though the biography section still calls it a solo album.

The album's cover lists 13 tracks, but on the CD itself only one long track exists. There's no gap between the supposed tracks. The album was released simultaneously on LP, and simply cut in half in the middle. I've never listened to the LP, but unless the end of the first side is faded out it must end abruptly.

This is a brilliant album that I've listened to more often than most of Klaus Schulze's official albums. It's closer to the essence of trance than any of his albums that have the word trance in the title. It's a powerful piece of music, less energetic than Klaus Schulze's sequencer driven pieces, but nevertheless hypnotic.