Dune

The title track from Dune is harsh and avant-garde; the endlessly drifting cosmic rays of previous Schulze albums are absent, replaced by theremin-like croons, sounds like massive glass bowls being rubbed by giant wet fingers, and cello (played by Wolfgang Tiepold). Although it has nothing to do with Frank Herbert’s novel, the side-long piece could serve as a fairly terrifying movie score. The album’s second side, “Shadows Of Ignorance,” is a pulsing, almost danceable track on which Arthur Brown (of The Crazy World Of…) recites a long poem written — in English — by Schulze and Tiepold offers staccato bowed accents.