CLUSTER Sowiesoso LP/1976 Germany/Electronic/Kluster/Harmonia/Neu!/Brian Eno
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CLUSTER 'Sowiesoso' LP (Germany, Bureau B, Catalogue #BB 039) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2009 Bureau B label LP edition of the classic Electronic/Avant-garde/Modern Composition Music album entitled Sowiesoso by Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius (aka Cluster) Originally released in 1976 in Germany on Sky Records label.
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The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius, its mellow transparency evoking the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with modest equipment -- a four-track tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tape-decks and a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able to work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived on their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak of their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on the music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of otherworldly electronic and acoustic elements -- relaxed, organic and gentle ambience. This could only be Cluster music; its harmonies reaffirm the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.
- 2016 re-release of Bureau B's 2009 reissue of the fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo, Cluster -- originally released on Sky Records in 1976.
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius are both key figures in the German experimental electronic ambient scene.
- Recorded in their home studio in the idyllic village of Forst.
- Liner notes by electronic avant-garde pioneer Asmus Tietchens, a friend of the duo.
- File under: Krautrock/Kosmische Musik/avant garde.
- For fans of: Roedelius, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Harmonia, Neu!, etc.
- "Three decades have not dimmed its majestic sweep, from the
burbling opening of the title track to the oceanic ambience of the
closing 'In Eternity.' Produced by Conny Plank, it is the true blueprint for Bowie/Eno electronica and more." --Record Collector
- "It's impossible to place enough emphasis on just how well constructed Sowiesoso sounds
today, the heavy grain of tape hiss being the only thing to convince
you that the whole thing hasn't been digitally sequenced. Amazing stuff." --Boomkat
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 Sowiesoso 8:08 A2 Halwa 2:48 A3 Dem Wanderer 3:52 A4 Umleitung 3:26 B1 Zum Wohl 6:51 B2 Es War Einmal 5:23 B3 In Ewigkeit 7:24Shipping rates to the following locations at this present time (note: all shipping rates are subject to change.)
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