New album - Klaus Schulze, Shadowlands

The release of a new album by the God of electronic music, Klaus Schulze, is always an event, though it's no longer a certainty that he'll come up with anything novel. Shadowlands isn't a disappointing album, but it clearly treads ground which is pretty familiar to anyone who has heard his output in the last five years. 
Though it has some vocal participation from Lisa Gerrard, Chrysta Bell, Julia Messenger and Thomas Kagermann, who also plays violin and flute, this isn't a vocal album in the way Schulze's collaborations with Lisa Gerrard were. Instead it's heavily reliant on washes of string pads, polyrhythmic percussion and ambient effects. It's pretty similar to everything he's come up with since Contemporary Works.
Nonetheless it bears the marks of genius - and not to denigrate Schulze acolytes like Fanger & Schoenwalder, there's a mountain of inspiration separating their pleasant but imitative output from that of the original master.
The only question is, when there's a 2xCD version with two extra tracks, why anyone would want to buy a single-CD edition of Shadowlands?
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