Cluster (band)
Qluster | |
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Dieter Möbius at the Fusion Festival 2010 |
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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
- Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational. The reinvention of pop music in Germany, 1968–1978 , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3424-2 .
Web links
- Official website
- Cluster at laut.de
- Cluster at the baby blue pages
- Clusters at Discogs (English)
- Cluster at Discogs (English)
- Qluster at Discogs (English)
- “My ears got tired of the electronics” - Interview with Hans-Joachim Roedelius in ZEIT, October 26th, 2011