KLUSTER Klopfzeichen AVANT KRAUTROCK PSYCH LP Cluster

	£		36
	$		48

First album from the legendary avant garde electronic band that included Hans-Joachim Roedelius , Dieter Moebius and Conrad Schnitzler. Extremely rare and in demand! This is the second German pressing (SCHWANN AMS 511) with a different cover. The record is in VG+ condition and the record in VG-, it has water damage (mostly on the back).

Here´s a review by Ricochet from progarchives.com:
Without hesitation, one of the most important, hard and astounding electronic class band is Kluster, made entirely out of an express desire to challenge the art and the movement of its kind (a kind to be discovered, entirely by one's own listening and recommendation). Revealed a lot as magisterial under the progressive electronic school of thoughts, dynamics and experiments (German-style, naturally, despite some influences that seem totally private, and others that numb out no particular music at all), the band's musical concept is yet far from such an easy definition (or even a ragged-drone one), mixing the hysteria or the silent respect of the krautrock/acid movement, deepening the experiment towards intricacy, desperation, no-logic, mechanical motion and abstractionism, or creating noise or independent electronic movements.
Conrad Schnitzler's vast past-60s experience is a good point of reflection leading to these early 70s years, when, not just in Kluster, but also in Tangerine Dream or in solo measures, his visions strode deep into challenging music, touch and artificiality in incomparably hard, technical, edasic and veracious ways. Moebius and Roedelius are a compact important duo joining Kluster, in a way that will continue into the good to great Cluster later albums, but not that much as to say that the Kluster moment of music, electronic, kraut-noise and experimentalism-dependency, was something far from retched, quasi-original, tonic, influential or drastic.

The Kluster sessions strike, dramatically, only three albums and only one year of work. But mixing a lot of progressive electronic, Berlin School music dynamics and elementary art-strain evolutions into your perspective leads always to the impression that the trio of Kluster have made some radical and brand astonishing moves, while other artists slept on a bit more easy or atmospheric, transitory or sound-reflexive tastes (not that many, for sure, since the classic years remain devoted to electronic excellencies, yet almost sensible, in the link between progressive and experimental, cosmic or mechanic, etc.).

Specifically in the Kluster dynamic of appreciation, Klopfzeichen is keen on being the most pointed out. It has a lot of the "elementary" power and details that the trio uses, in order for their gumble-art, organic-note or experimental-cause music to get the special shine. It's more introverted and ambient-shaded, in order for the orientation of electronic with noise and kraut to seem very clear and very impressive. But, down the artistic measure, the other two albums made by Kluster are entirely better, more rough, more skeptical regarding the electronic or sonic impulse.

Interesting, captivating or so-to-say full of exultation in Klopfzeichen are fragments of music, expression and expiration. The first part has a large side of low-mono sound and deep-physical voice narration, this last thing leading to imagining something from Floh de Cologne or Cosmic Jokers, but resembling actually neither. The topic is vast, acid or superficial, respectively, whether we're still talking about the word play, or of the actual effects of music, ambiance and primary sounds. The second part is more cold and ravishing, mixing an ambient "krust" of music, but also focusing the positive, artistic and magical moments of the noise-shrud, the experimental-surround or the typical abstract feel.

Klopfzeichen, with minimal, experimental, ambiental or collage elements of the electronic, kraut-docile, noise-sound or "kluster" blend of genres and illusions, is a sophisticated new brand and progressive effect; yet the most peaceful, intuitive, large-echoed experience too.

Might appeal to fans of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza , Can , Popol Vuh , Zweistein , Stockhausen , Pietro Grossi , Kagel , Pierre Henry , Bernard Parmegiani , André Almuro , François Bayle , Luc Ferrari , Michel Chion , Anton Bruhin , Ilhan Mimaroglu , Tod Dockstader , Trevor Wishart , Joji Yuasa , Cornelius Cardew , Ake Parmerud , Bengt Emil Johnson , Alvin Lucier , Pauline Oliveros , Daphne Oram , Michel Redolfi , Morton Subotnick , Delia Derbyshire , Nurse with wound , Zoviet France , Hafler Trio , DDAA , Piero Umiliani , Sorgini , De Fabriek , Whitehouse , John Duncan , Maurizio Bianchi , Merzbow , Aube , Coil , John Bender , Current 93 , Organum , Boyd Rice , HNAS , Smegma , Asmus Tietchens , Giancarlo Toniutti , Werkbund, Yuasa , Henri Chopin , Text Sound , Jon Appleton , Fluxus , New Blockaders , minimal / synth , Nocturnal Emissions , tape collage , electronic music , John Cage , avant-garde , La Monte Young , Terry Riley , musique concrete , Iannis Xenakis , AMM , Ghedalia Tazartes , Autechre , Afx , Aphex Twin , Prospective , INA GRM , Caprice , Igloo Creel Pone , Sound Sculptures , Drone , Minimalism , Folkways , Italian library , Bernard Heidsieck ...

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