🙏 My Dear Klaus: THANK YOU 🙏
 

The words available from down here are lacking to express this feeling that took place in me at the announcement of your Great Departure. And yet, I had been preparing for it, for a long time. Finally, when the moment arrived, the sadness manifested itself in spite of everything, pervasive and true. I'm listening to “Blanche” as I write these first lines, it's in my opinion one of the most nostalgic songs you've composed during your beautiful career. Yes, words fail me to express this absence that is now invading me. The word THANK YOU is without a doubt the most appropriate one. I thank you, Klaus, for having made me discover a wonderful world, a beautiful world, beautiful as a dream. I fell madly in love with your musical expression, from another time, another planet. You offered me hours of travel, of freedom.
 

I will never forget the first seconds, when the sapphire came to rest on the grooves of the vinyl of your fantastic album “Mirage”. It was a musical revolution for me, a revolution of life, a creative revolution. It was also my real musical trigger. Once again, THANK YOU.
 

I had seen you during your passages in my region, sometimes I was only a few meters away, however my extreme respect, my great shyness, did not allow me to speak to you. I also wrote to you. The years have passed and I regret a little that I was not able to speak to you. That is how it is. I still have the two or three hyper-realistic dreams where we were together, where I could hear the sound of your voice, where I could communicate with you in German. That's something.
 

And what about now? Well, I promise you that I will do my best to keep this beautiful musical movement that is the Berlin School alive, this Berliner Schule that you and Edgar have built with passion, freedom and creativity. This is finally my way of paying tribute to you.
 

I have a deep and sincere thought for your family, for Elfi, for your children, Maximilian with whom I had the great pleasure of dialoguing. I am thinking of Harald who was able to put some of your compositions in rhythm. My thoughts also go to Kevin Schrieve with whom I had the opportunity to exchange. I think of my friend Tommy Betzler and his wife Anke who accompanied you on tour and with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate and share our common passion for the Berlin School. I also think of Bertrand Loreau who had the privilege to meet you. My thoughts are with all those who vibrated for your timeless musicality and who are saddened by your Great Departure.
 

My Dear Klaus: THANK YOU. I wish you to rest in Peace, to be able to continue to make the Celestial vibrate with your dream sequences, I am sure that up there, the music will accompany you.
 

I miss you already.

Long live music, long live hope, long live love.
 

With Respect and Gratitude,

Laurent Schieber (Sequentia Legenda)
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