Kluster - Admira

Title: Admira Artist: Kluster Release Date: 4/22/2008 Label: Important Records Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 793447517926, 0793447517926 Genre: Rock Styles: Experimental Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Kraut Rock Moods: Cerebral, Clinical, Complex, Uncompromising, Atmospheric, Austere, Detached, Eerie, Somber, Wintry, Ambitious, Epic, Tense/Anxious, Ethereal, Melancholy, Ominous, Brooding, Hypnotic, Literate, Nocturnal, Poignant, Restrained, Trippy Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 4 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8
9. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Important Records IMPREC180 2008 CD Important Records 179

No other editions were found for this album.

There were actually two Kluster/Cluster bands, and if the "K" one preceded the "C" one, they co-existed for a while in the early '70s, Conrad Schnitzler taking over the original Kluster when Roedelius and Mobius branched out to pilot Cluster. Admira and its companion release Vulcano are tapes of Kluster found in the 2000s in member Klaus Freudigmann's attic. They are both minimally packaged. Admira (for Admiralstrasse, the street where the group had found a factory to set up camp for a year) features 12 untitled tracks from 1971. The players are Schnitzler, Freudigmann, Wolfgang Seidel, "and friends" -- the imprecision due to the fact that, by then, Kluster was mostly a communal musical endeavor, friends and guests being invited to chaotically join in. This is highly experimental free improvisation arising from a psychedelic rock background, with touches of early electro-acoustic music and contemporary music, played mostly on synthesizers, violin, and guitar, but also a lot of home-made instruments and noise-makers. The whole thing is crude (and crude-sounding at times), but vital, conveying a sense of urgency found only in recordings from that era, when there were still a lot of musical barriers to break, shackles to drop, and minds to open. As such, this Kluster was a few steps ahead of Amon Düül, Tangerine Dream, Faust, or early Pink Floyd, and closer to AMM or the Taj-Mahal Travellers. There are no melodies, no beats, and hardly any structure to these pieces, but they portray an ambitious sense of experimentation, and some strong ideas. Tracks one, six, and eleven are highlights, the first two featuring minimalistic electronics and twisted violin wails, while the latter is a trippy study in echo. All that being said, start with Kluster's first three LPs before moving on to this archival release. ~ François Couture, All Music Guide

Name Credits Conrad Schnitzler ?, Electronics Klaus Freudigmann ?, Electronics Wolfgang Seidel Electronics, ?