''Live in Vienna, 1980'' is a live collaborative album by German electronic music outfit
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and percussionist Joshi Farnbauer. It is the first of four live albums recorded by Cluster, and their only work with Farnbauer.
The album was released as a limited edition cassette on the
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York House Records (YHR) label. It was reissued in
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on the Transmitter label.
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In August 2010, the album was reissued as a double CD by the American label Important Records, including remastered audio and new artwork by Dieter Moebius
Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.
Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and ...
.
Background
On June 12, 1980 Cluster performed at the Wiener Festwochen Alternativ with Farnbauer. The style of much of the music is highly experimental and discordant and very reminiscent of Moebius and Roedelius' early work with Conrad Schnitzler in Kluster
Kluster was a Berlin-based German experimental musical group formed in 1969 by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Conrad Schnitzler, and Dieter Moebius. Their improvisational work presaged later industrial music. The original Kluster was short-lived, exi ...
, albeit with updated electronic instrumentation. Two notable exceptions are "Piano and "Ausgang", which are melodic in style. "Piano" concludes with a live rendition on "Manchmal" which originally appeared on the album '' Grosses Wasser'' (1979).
On the CD reissue, some of the songs were edited down to fit the 80-minute time restraints of the CD. About a minute and a half of audience applause and live stage prep was edited out between "Service" and "Kurz". Also, "Drums" was edited down to just over half of its original length to 7:35.
Two excerpts from this album, were included as bonus tracks on the Hypnotic CD reissues of the first two Kluster albums, ''Klopfzeichen
''Klopfzeichen'' is the debut full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster.
''Klopfzeichen'' was recorded on 21 December 1969 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf, Germany. Liner notes on the CD reissue on the Hypnotic label as well as s ...
'' and ''Zwei-Osterei
''Zwei-Osterei'' is the second full-length album by German experimental music trio Kluster. The album title translates to English as "Two - Easter egg".
''Zwei-Osterei'' was recorded on February 23, 1970 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf, Germany. ''Z ...
''. A 15:56 long excerpt of "Metalle" beginning about 3:03 was included with "Klopfzeichen". A 15:10 long excerpt of "Service" beginning about 3:01 was included with "Zwei-Osterei"
Track listing
#"Service" – 32:44
#"Kurz" – 4:30
#"Piano" – 5:30
#"Drums" – 13:30
#"Metalle" – 24:25
#"Ausgang" – 7:00
Personnel
*Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Hans-Joachim Roedelius (born 26 October 1934) is a German electronic musician and composer, best known as a co-founder of the influential 'kosmische' groups Cluster and Harmonia. He also performed in the ambient jazz trio Aquarello, and relea ...
– composer, performer
*Dieter Moebius
Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.
Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and ...
– composer, performer, artwork on CD reissue
* Joshi Farnbauer – composer, performer
*Michael Jürs – percussion on "Metalle"
*Paul Rapnik – percussion on "Metalle"
* Eric Spitzer-Marlyn – recording engineer
Notes
References
* Discog
Cluster & Joshi Farnbauer - Live In Vienna
Retrieved August 18, 2007.
* Curry, Rus
Retrieved August 17, 2007.
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Cluster (band) albums
1980 live albums