Name: Cluster and Farnbauer Live in Vienna 1980
Brand: Cluster

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2017-11-17

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Cluster

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Krautrock

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Bureau B

Bureau B is an independent record label, music publisher, and booking agency based in Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 2005 by Gunther Buskies as a sister label to Tapete Records, Bureau B specializes in releasing a diverse range of electronic and avant-garde music. With a focus on reissues and new productions, the label has built an extensive catalogue that includes iconic albums from the Krautrock genre of the 1970s and early 1980s. They also release recordings by influential artists such as Die Wilde Jagd, Kreidler, Toulouse Low Trax, and more.

Known for their commitment to preserving classic electronic music, Bureau B has been rereleasing albums from renowned artists like Cluster, Faust, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank, Schickert Schnitzler Tietchens Tyndall. In addition to these reissues, they also release works by similar artists including Blenner Heldon Pinhas Rev or NDW Plan Pyrolator.

With their impressive catalogue and dedication to promoting innovative music across various genres within the electronic spectrum - from pop to avant-garde - Bureau B continues to be a prominent force in the global music industry. Their contributions have solidified them as an authoritative figure in the world of independent labels.

Cluster is a multi-instrumental and electronics duo formed in 1971 in Berlin. Originally part of the trio Kluster, their early recordings were experimental and on the edge of Krautrock. Collaborations with Michael Rother from Neu! led to a more musical direction for Cluster. They also worked with Brian Eno and explored various styles. Although they went on hiatus in 1981, Cluster has reformed multiple times. Both members have also been active with solo works and other projects.

Originally released on cassette in 1980. The first live recording by Dieter Moebius and Hans- Joachim Roedelius, recorded 1980 in Vienna. The only collaboration with the Austrian musician Joshi Farnbauer who played drums and percussion – and a sonic throwback to their early years. Presented with two separate stacks of Cluster recordings – one comprised of their studio work, the other of live performances – an innocent listener might conclude they are the efforts of two completely different artists. This would understandably have been the case in 1980, when the structured, tuneful miniatures of 1979’s Grosses Wasser and 1981’s Curiosum were unlikely bookends to the sprawling electro acoustic abstractions of Live in Vienna. But as fans of the idiosyncratic duo already knew, Cluster’s trajectory was always a restless one – more about disruption than gentle evolution. As Live in Vienna’s sound engineer Eric Spitzer-Marlyn remembers, Cluster’s 1980 performance at the Wiener Festwochen Alternativ would have been called a “happening” in prior years. Growing out of the Actionism movement of the 60’s, the festival was more performance art than music concert. Disdaining the tired, commodified art of the establishment, it was a sound marked by brash, improvised, avant garde techniques. Eric also remembers it was Loud. For those who had grown up with Cluster’s accessible 70’s work with Eno and Plank, and their collaboration with Michael Rother in Harmonia, Live in Vienna’s slow-growing swaths of electronics and noise must have represented a bit of a shock. But it was really more a throwback to Cluster’s earliest years, when they performed dense electronic ‘jams’ with Conrad Schnitzler as Kluster. The addition in Vienna of Joshi Farnbauer, a friend and fellow artist who played percussion and explored the sound possibilities of his own sculptures, also mirrored the fluid and spontaneous configurations that characterized those times. As chance would have it, they never met up with Joshi again.

Cluster and Farnbauer Live in Vienna 1980

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