Cluster (band)

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Qluster
Dieter Möbius at the Fusion Festival 2010
Dieter Möbius at the Fusion Festival 2010
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) Krautrock , electronica , ambient
founding 1969, 1989, 2007, 2011
resolution 1981, 1997, 2010
Founding members
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Dieter Moebius († 2015)
Conrad Schnitzler (until 1971, † 2011)
Current occupation
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Onnen Bock (since 2011)
Armin Metz (since 2011)

Qluster (until 1971 Kluster , 1971–2010 Cluster ) is a German music group founded in 1969 by Conrad Schnitzler , Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius . She was actively involved in the beginning of the Krautrock .

history

Experimental music with partly mythical lyrics filled the first two albums Klopfzeichen and Kluster Zwei Osterei . Then Conrad Schnitzler left the band. The remaining musicians Moebius and Roedelius then renamed their musical project "Cluster" in 1971. Further albums with electronic music followed.

Together with the new! -Musician Michael Rother recorded two albums that were much more melodic and ironic to electronic music ( music by Harmonia and De Luxe ) under the name Harmonia . There were other fruitful collaborations with the British musician Brian Eno , whom Cluster got to know at a concert in the mid-1970s. The albums Cluster & Eno and After The Heat testify to this phase. Both Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius have released many solo albums. Since the late 2000s, Moebius and Roedelius recorded new material and occasionally gave concerts.

In 2011 there was a third renaming and reshuffle. Hans-Joachim Roedelius and the musician and sound engineer Onnen Bock will continue the band as Qluster . In the same year their first album was released questions . Cluster 71 was included in The Wire's "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)" list.

Discography

As a cluster

  • Knock sign (1970)
  • Cluster Two Easter Eggs (1971)
  • Eruption (1971)

As a cluster

  • Cluster 1 (1971)
  • Cluster II (1972)
  • Sugar Age (1974)
  • Anyway (1976)
  • Cluster & Eno (1977) (with Brian Eno )
  • After The Heat (1978) (with Brian Eno )
  • Big Water (1979)
  • Cluster '71 (1980) (identical to cluster 1)
  • Cluster & Farnbauer Live in Vienna (1980)
  • Curiosum (1981)
  • Speaking of clusters (1990)
  • Japan Live 1996 (1996)
  • First Encounter (1997)
  • Berlin 07 (2008)
  • Qua (2009)

As a Qluster

  • Questions (2011)
  • Call (2011)
  • Answers (2012)
  • Listen (2013)
  • Keys (2015)
  • Real time (2016)
  • Elements (2018)

literature

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