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Harmonia
Musik Von Harmonia
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. Watussi
2. Sehr Kosmisch
3. Sonnenschein
4. Dino
5. Ohrwurm
6. Ahoi!
7. Veterano
8. Hausmusik

CD Details

All Artists: Harmonia
Title: Musik Von Harmonia
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lilith
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 10/23/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Europe, Continental Europe, Experimental Music, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

Synopsis

Album Description

Once called "the world's most important rock group" by Brian Eno, legendary minimalist avant-garde band Harmonia was formed in the early seventies by Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster. Although this supergroup produced only two studio albums -- 1974's Musik von Harmonia and 1975's De luxe -- they were very influential and perfectly embodied the Krautrock ideal. While leaning slightly towards Cluster's ambient sound, they were also entirely their own entity -- a jet engine running clean and precise but also spouting asphyxiating aural exhaust. Lilith. 2006.

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CD Reviews

Greatest albums of the latter 20th century

NONLOCAL | Brooklyn, NY USA | 01/09/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This one is near the top in my humble opinion. A more perfect collaboration is hard to imagine - the combination of the cascading guitars of Neu! with the minimal electronic explorations of Cluster produce a brilliant sum that is far greater than its individual elements. Drone, drama, intensity, repitition, beauty, all instrumental. Groundbreaking composition that hardly anyone even knows about, and gosh darn it they should!"

Beautiful Kosmisch Music

Geoffrey R. Balme | raleigh NC | 03/27/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Lots of rhythmic pulsing, gyrating tones ping ponged on analog recorders, sounds of synth, guitar, and synthetic percussion.

Along the lines of early Popul vuh, and later Manual Gottsching (though without the compelling and astonishing guitar lead work).

This material, and others like it, (these fellows were from Cluster and Neu!) laid the foundations of what would be come "new wave" and electronica 10-20 years later.

Though, these early bands appreciated a primitiveness to the sound that gives them a kind of authenticity that was lost later on.

It's not all rhythmic dance club mix such and such, it's also noise scapes and other interesting artifacts.

Enjoy!

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