Hans-Joachim Roedelius

From his early use the pioneering Krautrock band Cluster to his later, even more ambient solo recordings, Hans Joachim Roedelius continued to be probably one of the most innovative and prolific voices in contemporary electronic music. Created in Berlin in 1934, he drifted through some odd careers before embracing music, later on collaborating with conceptual designer Conrad Schnitzler in some experimental rings including Plus/Minus, Sounds, and the INDIVIDUAL. In 1968, Roedelius and Schnitzler had been among the co-founders from the Zodiak Free of charge Arts Lab, several avant-garde performers from a number of innovative disciplines that quickly became among the generating forces from the Berlin underground picture; with Dieter Moebius, they produced Kluster in 1969, executing expanded improvisational live schedules throughout Western world Germany. Cluster released their debut LP, Klopfzeichen, in 1970; in the wake of their third record, 1971’s Kluster und Eruption, Schnitzler exited to pursue a single profession, and Roedelius and Moebius continuing on as Cluster. Dealing with famous manufacturer Konrad Plank, the duo started to move significantly toward more organized soundscapes — with 1974’s Zuckerzeit, they actually pursued an electric pop sound related in nature to Kraftwerk. Roedelius and Moebius also teamed with Neu!’s Michael Rother in Harmonia, releasing a set of mid-’70s LPs that caught the interest of Brian Eno, who in response collaborated using the trio on the legendary program (released much later on as Harmonia & Eno ’76 Remixes), heralding a switch toward ambient textures (and influencing the audio from the 1976 Cluster recording Sowiesoso). Roedelius and Moebius consequently caused Eno on 1977’s Cluster and Eno and 1979’s Following the Heat aswell. In the interim, Roedelius produced his single debut with 1978’s Durch perish Wuste; after Cluster continued hiatus in the wake of 1981’s Curiosum, he plunged completely into single work, regularly liberating several fresh LPs every year. Although many of these tasks pursued ambient pathways — the multi-chapter Selbstportrait series, 1981’s Lustwandel, 1987’s Momenti Felici, and 1992’s Friendly Video game all being cases — others, like 1982’s Offene Türen and 1994’s Sinfonia Contempora, No. 1, explored even more dissonant digital soundscapes. Additionally, Roedelius worked well in some mediums including theatre, dance, and film, collaborating with everyone from Holger Czukay to Peter Baumann; in 1990, he and Moebius also reunited for Apropos Cluster, as well as the duo continuing working together through the entire 10 years to check out, though they officially severed musical fits in 2011, and Roedelius shaped the musical outfit Qluster with Onnen Bock. Cooperation became Roedelius’ major M.O. through the ’90s on, though he continuing to issue quantities in his Selbstportrait series, which, by 2013, numbered eight quantities. The set of his musical companions isn’t just a who’s who of digital music artists and pioneers, but also of contemporary composers. A few of his perhaps most obviously recordings in the ’90s also included the single Tace! in 1993; 1 HOUR with Cluster and Sinfonia Contempora, No. 1: Von Zeit zu Zeit in 1994; Green, Blue and Amber in 1996; and Get together the Magus in cooperation with consumer electronics duo Aqueous in 1997 aswell as Drive, with the one-shot music group Global Trotters, who also included Alquimia, David Bickley, Felix Jay, Kenji Konishi, and Susumu Hirasawa. At the start from the 21st hundred years, Roedelius accelerated his currently prolific result. While his initial offering of the brand new 10 years was the single ambient Roedeliusweg, he shortly started a wide-ranging group of collaborative tasks. A few of the most significant had been the collage Veni Originator Spiritus with Eric Spitzer-Marlyn in 2000. The Japanese-only discharge Acon 2000/1 in cooperation with electronics star Conrad Schnitzler provided a startling comparison between both men’s designs. In 2003, joint tasks accounted for just two of his three produces, including Imagine Imagine, the to begin his three albums using the Fratellis. The ambient single providing Amerika Recycled was his just record released in 2004. Even so, one of is own most compelling produces, an ambient traditional crossover task with pianist Morgan Fisher, was released in 2005. Cluster reunited for the tour in 2007; a live record Berlin 07 premiered in 2008, along with Errata, which discovered him within an improbable partnership with traditional musician Tim Tale as well as the dark, digital soundscape designer Dwight Ashley. The this past year of the 1st 10 years of the hundred years was designated by Sustanza di Cose Sperata, using the excellent and wildly idiosyncratic songs pianist and composer Alessandra Celletti. That yr also saw the discharge of Qua, the ultimate studio recording by Cluster. Roedelius started a new operating partnership this year 2010, that one with maker and digital pop musician Stefan Schneider (aka Mapstation) of To Rococo Rot and Kreidler. Their 1st recording collectively was Stunden, released by Bureau B. Roedelius progressed Cluster into Qluster, in cooperation with Berlin musician Onnen Bock; Fragen and Rufen both made an appearance on Bureau B in 2011, with Antworten arriving the next year. A single piano gig entitled Takes on Piano: Bloomsbury Theater, London, July 28th, 1985 premiered in 2012. Selected Research, Vol. 1, a shock collaboration with vocalist and songwriter Lloyd Cole, premiered in early 2013, as was Roedelius’ following full-length with Schneider, Tilden. The label reissued a lot of Roedelius’ back again catalog, and released Tape Archive 1973-1978, a thorough multimedia box group of unreleased materials, in 2014. Beyond the Bureau B label, Roedelius continuing to collaborate with various other performers: Lindabrunn Collage with Werner Moebius made an appearance on No Thing That Exists in 2014, Imagori with Christoph H. Müller surfaced on Grönland Information in 2015, and Ubi Bene with Leon Muraglia premiered by Passus Information the same calendar year.