''Klopfzeichen'' is the debut full-length album by German experimental music trio

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, exist ...

. ''Klopfzeichen'' was recorded on 21 December 1969 at Rhenus-Studio, Gordorf,

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. Liner notes on the CD reissue on the

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label as well as some websites place the recording date precisely one year later in 1970. This is incorrect as it would place the recording after the initial release date. In addition Kluster founder

Conrad Schnitzler Conrad "Conny" Schnitzler (17 March 1937 – 4 August 2011) was a prolific German experimental musician associated with West Germany's 1970s krautrock movement. A co-founder of West Berlin's Zodiak Free Arts Lab, he was an early member of Tangeri ...

states in interviews that the recordings took place during the same period as the first

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album, ''

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'', which occurred in late 1969. ''Klopfzeichen'' was released in November 1970 on the Schwann label. With a plastic embossed cover, including two multi fold-out inserts. Only 300 copies of the original LP were pressed and sold. The album was first reissued by Schwann in 1980 – with new cover art and a sticker touting

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and Conrad Schnitzler's previous membership in Tangerine Dream – and then on the U.S.-based

label in 1996. This CD reissue also contains a nearly 16-minute-long bonus track from the 1980 Cluster & Farnbauer release ''

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''. The album was again reissued on the Japanese Captain Trip label on April 20, 2007 as a 450 copy limited CD edition with an adaption of the original cover art-work and a bonus track by

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, "Black Spring", from their 1971 sessions. In 2012

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released another reissue on CD as well as on 180gr vinyl. The original cover art-work was adapted, new liner-notes provided by

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Track listing

#"Kluster 1" - 24:00 #"Kluster 2" - 21:51

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 ...

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 ...

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- Voice, Track 1 * Conrad Plank - Engineer *J. Liebig - Engineer *Oskar Gottlieb Blarr - Producer

References

*Schnitzler, Conrad Retrieved August 17, 2007. *The Edge

Notes

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