Earthstar – French Skyline
Genre: | Electronic |
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Style: | Abstract, Minimal, Experimental, Ambient, Berlin-School |
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Tracklist
| Latin Sirens Face The Wall | |||
| Part I Sirens | 4:14 | ||
| Part II The Amazon | 10:18 | ||
| Part III The Flourishing Illusion | 5:07 | ||
| Splendored Skies And Angels | 6:21 | ||
| French Sky Lines Suite | |||
| Movement I Morning Song (For Iris And Richard) | 3:50 | ||
| Movement II Sources Change, Including "The Movement" | 4:48 | ||
| Movement III 3 Demensional Music | 4:47 | ||
| Movement IV Wind And Sky Symphony / Reprise: Morning Song | 5:13 |
Credits (26)
- Norm PeachBass, Electronics [Devices]
Craig WuestChoir [Hu Choir]- Joan N.*Choir [Hu Choir]
- Marla T.*Choir [Hu Choir]
- Phil N.*Choir [Hu Choir]
- Craig WuestDesign [Cover], Photography By
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| Image | , | – | In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory | Version Details | Data Quality | ||||
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 | French Skyline LP, Album | Sky Records – sky 031, Sky Records – SKY 031 | Germany | 1979 | Germany — 1979 | ||||
 | French Skyline CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered | MI Records – CSP 00501, Green Tree Records – GTR 085 | Germany | 1999 | Germany — 1999 |
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- Edited 2 years agoThe CD tracks are too harshly processed. The audio is overblown, with clipping, along with some sort of large noise erasure that makes the spectrogram look lossy and chopped. A shame these tracks, especially "Latin Sirens Face The Wall" 3 parts piece has this treatment done over it.
- Edited one year agohope SOON in reissues cd of the ALL the albums Earthstar !
😃NEWS 2023; ALL IN CDS FROM MIG❗
⚠️UPDATES😭 the new CD box is not from the masters but from VINYLS! (you can hear the needle!) referencing French Skyline (LP, Album) sky 031
Definitely worth the time for classic analog synth/early electronica lovers. Recommended.
By the way, a possible this CD is unauthorized edition, because Sky Records gave license to MI Records
without the approval or knowledge of Earthstar... :-)- French Skyline was the second album by Earthstar. It was their first release for Sky Records and, more importantly, their first release after relocating to Germany at the invitation of Klaus Schulze. Schulze co-produced the album with Earthstar keyboardist/synthesist Craig Wuest. He also provided technical advice and programmed the synthesizers. Schulze's influence is much greater than that: he changed Earthstar's sound and his influence is greatly heard on this album.
Under Schulze's guidance Wuest and Earthstar created what some have called a "wall of sound": heavily multitracked and layered pieces so dense that it is often impossible to tell which instruments are playing. It's a rich, textural electronic sound that in many ways resembles Klaus Schulze's work more than other Earthstar albums, particularly on the two long pieces, "Latin Sirens Face the Wall" and "French Skyline Suite". The shorter piece sandwiched in the middle, "Splendored Skies and Angels" opens with the only discordant section of this album and is a bit harsh to my ears. The rest of the album flows beautifully and is an absolute pleasure for fans of '70s electronic music in general and Klaus Schulze in particular. It's an excellent album and it, by far, is Earthstar's most coherent in terms of sticking with one style.
-Caitlyn Martin
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