Deus Arrakis

德国电子音乐家、作曲家Klaus Schulze的第四十七张录音室专辑《Deus Arrakis》上线，这是他生前制作完成的最后一张专辑。专辑的创作灵感来自与著名科幻小说《沙丘》，关于这张专辑，Klaus Schulze曾说过，“1979年当我在制作我的第十一张专辑《Dune》时，我就听说了法兰克·赫伯特的《沙丘》三部曲，我被这个关于沙漠星球的传奇故事给深深吸引，一遍又一遍地阅读这些书”，后来时隔大概四十年后，《沙丘》得到电影翻拍，他与著名作曲家Hans Zimmer进行合作为电影制作配乐，再度掀起“沙丘热”，于此同时Klaus Schulze回到录音室着手制作这张专辑，《Deus Arrakis》成了Klaus Schulze对伟大什生命的又一次致敬。 About ‘Deus Arrakis‘ Klaus Schulze says: „On the one hand this album was created as spontaniously as all my albums before, on the other hand it has a special history: when I produced my eleventh album ‘Dune‘ in 1979 I already knew the ‘Dune‘ triology by Frank Herbert inside out like other people knew their ‘Lord of the Rings‘. I was totally fascinated by this monumental story of the desert planet und I read the books over and over again. I asked Arthur (Brown) and Wolfgang (Tiepold) to come to my studio and started creating my own musical ‘Dune‘. And with the track ‘Frank Herbert‘ from my previous album ‘X‘ I wanted to show respect to the great author. After the following film versions -not really satisfying in my view- the ‘Dune‘ theme was not in my focus anymore and was forgotten for a long time. But suddenly - about 40 years later - I heard of plans regarding a ‘Dune‘ remake by Denis Villeneuve – which totally unexpected hit a spot with me. I started to read the books again and even rewatched the film by David Lynch. Actually, I do quite a lot of reading currently, as I now have the time for it! After a while I then also started making music again but did not really think of ‘Dune‘ anymore. Months later the phone rang and Lisa (Gerrard) connected me to her friend Hans Zimmer. He had this idea for a cooperation... exactly for that very ‘Dune‘ remake by Denis Villeneuve! We got on well from the start – just like me, Hans also is a huge fan of ‘Dune‘ – and the result indeed ended up being in the 'Dune' movie. Truly incredible how sometimes circles open up, cross and then close again in the end. However, I was caught again by the deserts of ‘Dune‘ and needed more ‘spice‘. Excitedly I returned to my studio and found a cello recording by Wolfgang Tiepold. From there I felt completely unleashed and just played and played… at the end of that second private ‘Dune‘ journey I realized: ‘Deus Arrakis‘ became another salute to Frank Herbert and to that great gift of life in general.“