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	Kluster Kluster: 1970-1971 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock German ambient space-rock pioneers Kluster were originally a trio featuring Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius. During their brief life span they recorded three LPs, all available in this deluxe ... more » « less
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All Artists: Kluster
Title: Kluster: 1970-1971
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Water
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 5/20/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Europe, Continental Europe, Experimental Music, Dance Pop, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 646315719420

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German ambient space-rock pioneers Kluster were originally a trio featuring Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius. During their brief life span they recorded three LPs, all available in this deluxe box set. Klopfzeichen and Zwei-Osterei, recorded in 1969 and 1970 respectively, were the trio's only two studio albums. The trio's third album, Eruption, was a live recording of the band's last concert in 1971. All three are amazing examples of pioneering ambient music featuring guitar, percussion, keys, and cello heavily processed with echo, filters, and tape machines to create a unique effect, unlike anything else at the time.

CD Reviews

Essential Kosmische Musik

Caesar M. Warrington | Lansdowne, PA United States | 06/09/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"German ambient/krautrock pioneers Kluster were originally a trio featuring Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius. Between 1969-1971 they recorded three albums: KLOPFZEICHEN (1969), ZWEI-OSTEREI (1970), and ERUPTION (1971), all available in this box set.

KLOPFZEICHEN and ZWEI-OSTEREI were the trio's only two studio albums. The third, ERUPTION (aka SCHWARZ), was a live recording from the group's last concert in 1971. All three are amazing examples of the experimentation into ambient sound occurring in Germany during that time. Featuring guitar, percussion, organ and cello with sound processing devices, tape machines, echo and filtering, Kluster could create effects and textures which were beyond those of more electronically oriented contemporaries like Tangerine Dream. Kluster's music has been best described by Steven and Alan Freeman in their encyclopedia of Krautrock/Kosmische Musik, THE CRACK In The COSMIC EGG, as "music that oozed electricity--stark, bleak, industrial, and nightmarishly unnerving."

Conrad Schnitzler left Kluster in the middle of 1971. Moebius and Roedelius carried on with Cluster (note the initial letter "C"), briefly with Conny Plank, and later as a duo.

In 2007 Schnitzler, along with American Michael Thomas Roe and Japanese Masato Ooyama, resurrected the Kluster name to record KLUSTER 2007."