Can anyone guess my vote...?



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I have absolutely no idea who you're preference would be for on this one Michael...

Schulze's work indeed is very, erm, spiritual -- or high-spirited, more like it.

Not exactly cask strength but close to it...

Stephen

But Michael, don't you think TD's work from Zeit to Rubycon is just as "spiritual" as anything Schulze put out?

I agree it all became increasingly about technique even some time begore Baumann left, but i think that happened to Klaus as well in the early 80's...

I agree about how you feel about Schulze's work as a whole, but i think there are a lot of reasons for the differences between TD Nd KS in the fact that Klaus did it alone and TD as a democratic team (in their prime). Love them both, nevertheless...

Schulze's work indeed is very, erm, spiritual -- or high-spirited, more like it.

Not exactly cask strength but close to it...

Stephen

Good point. Indeed, I thought about that when I wrote my comment...

And I tend to agree - for the albums You mentioned, including Edgar's first two solo albums.

Still, looking at the bigger picture, there still seems to be a general tendency - at least, that's the effect their respective music has on me; I admit that whatever may be "spiritual" is highly individual and everyone may have a totally different idea about it.

Maybe I was impressed by the only time I saw them both live, 2008 at the Loreley festival. It wasn't a bad TD concert at all (given the time it took place) and mostly enjoyed it and was quite happy to have seen them once, finally. But it felt like a very, erm: tangible change of the overall atmosphere when they left and Klaus' and Lisa's part of the show started, and to me it seemed to be a difference of outgoing and (perhaps) more superficial to introspective and well: spiritual - I'm struggling to find a better word for it. This seemd so obvious to me that it really struck me.

Still, of course it could only have been me, projecting my expectations onto the situation...




True...



I also thought about that, but then again, a couple of times (and on some of his best albums), Klaus also teamed up with other musicians, like Tiepold, for example (and maybe in the first place). But yes - TD always was more or a collective, and the individual members brought specific sets of skills - like Schmoelling or (if I remember that correctly) Christoph Franke who had formally studied music, thus obviously being rather accomplished musicians in the traditional sense, which of course helped with the degree of professionalism they could reach...




I'm amused (mildly).


Speaking of "spiritual music" - just while I type this I'm incidentally listening to "Xenopus" by Nemesis, and even though that doesn't evoke exactly the same feeling as music by KS, I would file it under that category as well...

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I also thought about that, but then again, a couple of times (and on some of his best albums), Klaus also teamed up with other musicians, like Tiepold, for example (and maybe in the first place). But yes - TD always was more or a collective, and the individual members brought specific sets of skills - like Schmoelling or (if I remember that correctly) Christoph Franke who had formally studied music, thus obviously being rather accomplished musicians in the traditional sense, which of course helped with the degree of professionalism they could reach...

And about "Xenopus", you´re too kind, Herr Prinz Well, they were good times (or the end of those, bandwise)

Not disbanded, but in a state of animated suspension .... Well, suspended animation