Godfather of electronic music
Klaus Schulze
issued the last volume of his epic archival
La Vie Electronique
series with a massive 15th set, released in 2014. The lengthy proceedings include the nearly 80-minute-long 1997 track "'Nuff Said," recordings from a 1998 concert in Bologna, Italy, and three tracks
Schulze
made in collaboration with cello player
Wolfgang Tiepold
. As always,
's groundbreaking work with synthesizers and sequencing goes through various modes of experimentation and reflection, taking turns meditative, pastoral, and even aggressively charged throughout the course of the collection. ~ Fred Thomas