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Collected Works (5CD)
The complete works of Earthstar from 1978 to 1982 plus previously unreleased recordings including an extensive booklet on the band's history.
"Earthstar was an interesting project of the American musician Craig Wuest. The band was classified as electronic and ambient. Although the musicians came from Utica/N.Y., many journalists and fans called their style "Krautrock".
The band outed themselves as ardent admirers of that genre as well, especially German electronic artists like Neu, Cluster, Roedelius, and especially Klaus Schulze. Craig Wuest contacted Klaus Schulze and he was so impressed with Earthstar's talent that he invited the band to move to Germany to record and promote their music. The first Earthstar album "Salterbarty Tales" (1978) was released on the US label Moontower Records, parts of the second album "French Skyline" were recorded in Utica, but the final album was released in 1979 on the renowned German SKY label of Günther Körber. Earthstar and Klaus Schulze worked together until 1982, after which the musicians returned to the States and went their own ways. The band Earthstar was history.
Until today. All 4 studio albums ("Salterbarty Tales", "French Skyline", "Atomkraft? Nein Danke!", "Humans Only") will be released as "Collected Works" for the first time on CD and digital. Plus, as a bonus: the previously unreleased album "Sleeper The Nightlifer", which Sky had passed on because it was too different from what listeners were used to from Earthstar. What an interesting discovery!"
Track Listing
Disc 1:
Splendored Skies And Angels
Serindego (Including - Rapid Of HU)
Salterbarty Ouverture
Wee Voices Touch
Broken Chain of Euphoria
Canyon Nebula (Including - Rapter Relcafe, Sunspots Theme, Rapter Releafe Reprise - Final.)
Night Tones
Sunsets
Shades
Disc 2:
Latin Sirens Face The Wall - Part I: Sirens
Latin Sirens Face The Wall - Part II: The Amazon
Latin Sirens Face The Wall - Part III: Flourishing Illusion
Splendored Skies And Angels
French Sky Lines Suite - Movement I: Morning Song (For Iris And Richard)
French Sky Lines Suite - Movement II: Sources Change, including "The Movement"
French Sky Lines Suite - Movement III: 3 Demensional Music
French Sky Lines Suite - Movement IV: Wind And Sky Symphonie / Reprise: Morning Song
Disc 3:
Golden Rendevous
Sonntagsspaziergang
Garden's End
Wind Mills
Cafe Sequence
Café Exit (Incl. March Of The Flanged Angles)
White Cloud
Solar Mirrors
Jet Sets (Atomic Fallouts, Flash To Ash)
Forest Floor - (Part I: Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! - Part II: Aras)
Disc 4:
Rainbow Dome
Don't You Ever Wonder
Indian Dances
One Flew Over The Ridge
TV Funk
Tip Toe Funk - (a. Umbrey Flowing Lights - b. Arrival Places)
Disc 5:
Razor's Edge
Billows Edit
Silent Ones
Water Dance
Indian Dances
Golden Rendevous
Chiarascuro
Embroidery
Sleeper Garden Path