Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205526 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Album Description
The most important and consistently underrated space-rock unit of the '70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler as an improv group that used everything from synthesizers to alarm clocks and kitchen utensils in their performances. Continuing on as a duo, Moebius and Roedelius eventually recorded many landmark LPs - separately, as a duo, and with all manner of guest artists from Brian Eno to Conny Plank to Neu!'s Michael Rother - in the field of German space music, often termed kosmische. Cluster also continued to explore ambient music into the '90s, long after their contemporaries had drifted into tamer new age music or ceased recording altogether.

Cluster's second album as a duo is a January, 1972 recording that is similar in style to their previous works. Cluster II is mostly an album of drones and industrial atmospheres; an ambient album before the label began to be applied to music. For the first time Cluster broke down their sound experiments into some bite-sized pieces that reflected their strange kind of humour.

Album Description
After Schnitzler's departure, Moebius and Roedelius began to work with producer Conny Plank and recorded "Cluster". For their work "Cluster II" Conny Plank even got credits as composer of music that became more quiet and joyful. Here Cluster's tracks became titles for the first time which reflected, like "Zwei-Osterei" by Kluster, their strange kind of humour. Their second duo album finally was released in 1972. Remastered and comes packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. 2005.

Album Details
Japanese Limited LP Replica Sleeve Edition of the 1972 Album from the German Trio of Dieter Moebius, Hans Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler.