''Aphrica'' is a collaboration album by

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers ...

Rainer Bloss Rainer Bloss (also Rainer Blos or Rainer Bloß; 1946 – 10 December 2015) was a German electronic musician. He collaborated with electronic composer Klaus Schulze in the 1980s to produce several albums, including '' Audentity'' (1981), '' Aphri ...

and Ernst Fuchs, with the painter Fuchs providing vocals. ''Aphrica'' was both released and withdrawn in 1984. Although the reason the album was taken off the market was mainly legal (the label Inteam had "forgotten" to make a contract with Fuchs), Schulze had very little positive to say about the collaboration in retrospect: "Besides, it's an awful album, just because of that silly singing or recitation. Fuchs tries to be "serious", but he's only involuntarily funny. In Germany we have the word " peinlich" for it." The press seemed to agree. According to ''tip'', a

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-based magazine, "(...) due to their grandiloquent dimwittedness, the lyrics provoke only tormented laughter." (June 1984)

Track listing

# "Aphrodite" – 19:40 # "Brothers and Sisters" – 12:20 # "Africa" – 06:50

References

External links

Listing on klaus-schulze.com
1984 albums Klaus Schulze albums {{1980s-album-stub