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  • 11 - Cluster/Harmonia

  • from Part II - Music
  • Edited by Uwe Schütte, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock
    Published online:
    20 October 2022
    Print publication:
    27 October 2022, pp 173-186

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the music created by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, and Michael Rother, under the band names Cluster and Harmonia. It makes the case that this music exists in a different relation to post-war Germany than that of Kraftwerk or Neu. Cluster/Harmonia created music deeply informed by the rural setting in which the musicians worked; in doing so, they engaged with one of the archetypal signifiers of German identity – the German landscape. The improvisatory nature of their work both allowed them to respond directly to the influence of their environment, but also created a template that proved very influential – not least on the work of Brian Eno (who collaborated with them in the mid-1970s).