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Roedelius Works 1968 - 2005: Limited and Numbered Copies Hits The Shelves!

A number of limited edition Roedelius Works hit the shops today, a week before its standard release. The impressive package that is comprised entirely out of the foil material that is used to package fresh Salmon (we kid you not!) contains two CD’s that document the highlights of an illustrious musical career.

From being a founding member of Kluster in 1969 who’s eponymous debut pioneered the brick-a-brack approach to electronic music to working with a long list of impressive collaborators such as Holger Czukay (Can), Conrad Plank (Krautrock producer extraordinaire) and forming Cluster by adding luminaries such as Brian Eno and Michael Rother (NEU!) to the ranks. Hans Joachim Roedelius overall impact on many a musical genre is immense and he has often been credited as one of the ubermeiesters of what has affectionately known as Krautrock.

Works is the definitive Roedelius collection avalailable now for the first time and featuring music spanning five decades. We have a limited number of CD’s available through our own little retail outlet… all of which have their own unique number. So if your not in the position to trawl thorugh the more independent record shops... get clicking and we’ll send you one in the post while stocks last.

ROEDELIUS: WORKS 1968 - 2005
Limited and Numbered Release

CDGRON39

2CD Price: £17.99

CD1

1. Harmonia – Monza (Harmonia De Luxe, 1975)
2. Cluster – Hollywood (Zuckerzeit, 1974)
3. Cluster & Eno – Ho Renomo (1977)
4. Harmonia – Dino (Musik Von Harmonia, 1974)
5. Roedelius – Human Being/Excerpt (Live Im Zodiak, 1968)
6. Roedelius – Regenmacher (Durch Die Wueste, 1978)
7. Cluster - Oh Odessa (Cluster Curiosum, 1981)
8. Roedelius – Digital Love (Digital Love, 2002)
9. Cluster - Excerpt (Cluster 71,1971)
10. Lunz Live – Excerpt (taken from the MoreOhr Less Festival 2005) 11. Roedelius – Poetry (Pink Blue And Amber, 1996)
12. Roedelius – Freudentanz (Wenn Der Suedwind Weht, 1981)
13. Kluster – Klopfzeichen Excerpt (1970)
14. Roedelius - Amerika Recycled (2004)
15. Roedelius – Rue Fortune (Jardin Au Fou, 1979)

CD2

1. Roedelius – Zerrissen Zwischen Illusionen
(Lieder Vom Steinfeld, 1998)
2. Roedelius – Isleta (Aquarello , 1998)
3. Roedelius – By This Road (Before & After Science, 1977)
4. Cluster – Sowiesoso/excerpt (1974)
5. Roedelius – Twilighttide (Tace, 1993)
6. Roedelius – Einfach So (Piano Piano, 1991)
7. Lunz – Dew Climbs feat. Half Cousin, (Lunz-Reinterpretations, 2005) 8. Roedelius – Imogen (Remix by Imagine Imagine, NOH1, 2005)
9. Roedelius – Gewiss (Sebstportait I, 1978)
10. Cluster – Emmental (Apropos Cluster, 1990)
11. Kluster – Kluster & Eruption/Excerpt (1971)
12. Roedelius – Persistence Of Memory/Excerpt (2002)
13. Roedelius – Gefundene Zeit (Gift Of The Moment, 1984)
14. Roedelius – Voran (Selbstporait VII, 1990)
15. Roedelius – Blueblut (Roedeliusweg, 2000)
16. Roedelius – First Lesson (Aqueous & Roedelius, 1997)

and this peaks interest:

5. Roedelius – Human Being/Excerpt (Live Im Zodiak, 1968)

Haven't been too taken with most Roedelius of the last 15 years that I've heard. But the BBC had that stream of his Cut And Splice concert with Bayle earlier this year, and after he faded down that clunky beat and things got abstract & collaged -- it was _great_, I would buy a record of that in a heartbeat.

i still dont have 'jardin au fou' =(

1. cluster/eno live metz 77, 29:54
2/3. cluster/farnbauer, live vienna 80, 16:00 / 15:09

the last two tracks are taken directly from the two bonus tracks at the end of the Kluster reissues (if anyone has a copy of the entire tape, please drop me a line). the Cluster/Eno gig is a hissy cassette transfer of a room recording, but the music is one long throbbing drone piece, closer to Cluster II than their late 70's albums, good to know and I'll probably listen to it more than twice.

Following up the Water reissues, Captain Trips is doing limited editions of some of the Moebius this month -- Rastakraut Pasta, Material, Zero Set, Tonspuren & Blue Moon. Blue Moon is the only one of those that isn't a straight-up classic, and even that one has a few tracks I can't live without.

I picked up Moebius' new album Nurton a few months ago. He's definitely trying harder than he was on the last one Blotch -- feels more composed & layered. this structurally sounds the most like Tonspuren than anything since (short motorik pieces built out of weird sounds and riffs) but I still prefer his earlier synth sounds to the all-digital palette he's been working with since 1996 -- plenty of quirky noises, but they just don't sound as elliptical and abstract as the analog days. Still, since most of his other solos & groups since 1996 have been mostly long improvisation jam-band records, I'm happy about Nurton and my favorite couple of tracks are towards the end.

german blogger babelfished on the Paris show this month:

I left myself mental ever more deeply down-slide into the labyrinth from tones and fantasies and horchte up only if a piece were times terminated and the applause of the public a break formed. Occasionally I used also the opportunity to take in or other photo. Pieces of "sugar time" I recognized by the way none, however no miracle, becausethe set consisted to the majority of new, yet veroeffentlchten pieces...

During well the 70-minuetigen of concert I did not bore myself a second, despite the kontemplativen character of the music. In the opposite, I found that high-inspiring and excitingly all. I believe it to the other spectators also very well fell, her donated long lasting applause. Moebius and Roedelius gave themselves the hand briefly and thank you scarcely in national language: "Merci!, Merci beaucoup ".

http://meinzuhausemeinblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/cluster-paris-180507.html

Roedelius is coming to the US in October. I don't see any other shows scheduled besides two in Big Sur, which I can make, but seeing as he and Moebius seem to be playing together again, it seems like one extra plane ticket for Moebius is all it would take for a handful of US Cluster appearences, so I sure hope some electronic-music-loving promoter has enough of their business together to make something happen soon

Let's talk about the records with Eno.

Or...not.

All 3 Kluster (Schnitzler, Roedelius, Moebius) albums - 'Klopfzeichen', 'Zwei Osterei', and 'Schwarz' are fantastic.

I take issue with the characterization of Zwei Osterei as fantastic - unless your definition of fantastic encompasses side-long tracks of a monotonous male voice intoning in German with faint buzzy electronic sounds in the background.

the speaker isnt monotonous at all! hes just very, very serious, which, given the nonsensical cut-up sermon hes reading, is funny as hell.

you'd think those Cluster/Eno collabs. would be great. but they aren't. dry and boring compared w/ Cluster lps.

which, given the nonsensical cut-up sermon hes reading, is funny as hell

Unfortunately, not being a German speaker, the comedy is lost on me.

reposted from upthread

http://mitglied.lycos.de/neuschnee/Clusterdiscs01.htm
http://mitglied.lycos.de/neuschnee/Clusterdiscs02.htm

the Kluster records aren't the most inviting or accessible, but I think they're really effective for what they are, and with every passing year of recent noise / drone shows and CDRs they sound better and better. when I started hearing Yellow Swans drone records, the Kluster CDs are the first things I thought of. Eruption is the one without recitations if you find the vocals too distracting.

tour pushed to spring

in other old news that I missed --

moebius & neumeier 'zero set II' -- http://www.cisco-records.co.jp/html/item/002/114/item241559.html

I read somewhere that this was a japanese reissue of 2003's 'live in japan', which I haven't returned to much, but it's a new album and the samples sound promising

I've also been playing moebius' 'nurton' from last year and it is definitely a grower

um wtf is up with that 6CD box set on Captain Trip, is that stuff legit? looks like it was also released as separate discs.

I love the Eno/Cluster stuff, but that's the only Cluster I've heard. I need to go out and get some more...

You should, you really should..

Milton, where did you get that tour info news? Does that regard the entire tour or just the North American dates?

just the North American dates are being pushed back, so they can do it right. friends are trying to book them in SF.

Captain Trip's pretty legit, they started releasing Moebius & Dinger solo projects in the 90's and now they've worked up to Schnitzler, Pinhas & Cluster reissues. the choices of what they're grouping together for the boxes is a little random though:

BOX 1 - six discs
CLUSTER / '71 / Sowiesoso / Grosses Wasser / Curiosum
MOEBIUS + BEERBOHM / Strange Music / Double Cut

BOX 2 - five discs
CLUSTER & ENO / same
ENO - MOEBIUS - ROEDELIUS / After The Heat
MOEBIUS + ROEDELIUS / Apropos Cluster
CLUSTER / One Hour
MOEBIUS & PLANK / En Route

Box 1 is solid (not everyone loves those Moebius & Beerbohm records but I definitely do -- first one has live punk drumming & instruments, and the side two of 'double cut' is 1982 minimal techno). the last three in box 2 have been out of print for over a decade so it's nice to have them back but those are definitely three of their weaker albums all in a row

Got my Captain Trip reissues of Sowiesoso, '71, and Curiosum last week. The sound is definitely an improvement over the older versions I've got. They're probably worth $20 just for the magical shrunken down LP format.

Also, Lilith have now released Zuckerzeit, Cluster II, Musik Von Harmonia and Deluxe on LP/CD. I think they're using the same tapes as the German Universal versions from a few years ago, but it's nice to have LP's of these. Plus, liner notes by Asmus Tietchens in delightfully botched English and Cyrillic.

I have the Lilith "Zuckerzeit" reissue and it sounds fantastic. Is there a difference between the Captain Trip and Water versions of "Sowiesoso"?

stupid to have 3 labels reissuing the same shit while roedelius solo albums remain oop

Captain Trip's Sowiesoso is supposedly a remastered version, but who knows? I think Water's released were remastered, too.

Agree with am0n. Does anyone know what the hell Captain Trip mean when they put "EMBARGO!" by Roedelius' Jardin Au Fou on their website? Just an awkward way of telling me "not for you!" or are they saying it's sold out? Does it mean that somewhere in the world (like, say, Japan) you can still get it? So frustrating!

Maybe I have to buff up my trade relations with Captain Trip before I get a copy.