MICHAEL ROTHER Flammende Herzen Original German LP AUTOGRAPHED Harmonia Neu Prog

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MICHAEL ROTHER

Flammende Herzen

Original German LP released on Sky Records in 1977.
Fully laminated sleeve.

Autographed on front: "Michael Rother 12.10.2000'.

SKY-007 A   /   SKY-007-BPF

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Michael Rother was the guitar and keyboard playing half of the groundbreaking Krautrock group Neu!, and earlier, a founding member of Kraftwerk. Flammende Herzen (Flaming Heart) is his first solo album, recorded by and produced by Conny Plank in 1976 and issued at the dawn of punk in 1977.

Flammende Herzen is, in a sense, the complete and utter flowering of a vision Rother held from Kraftwerk through his work with Klaus Dinger in Neu and through his short-term collaboration with Moebius and Roedelius in Harmonia. Rother's signature guitar sound is twinned with an analogue delay, the simple mechanical or "motorik" percussion all wound around simple, yet transcendent, melodies that are nearly anthemic in their strident execution. With percussion assistance from Jaki Leibzeit of Can, Rother crafts a driving, soaring ride into the sonic abyss that is rich with melody and rock rhythm.

For Rother, music is a thing filled with light, and tracks such as the title, "Zyklodrom," and "Karussell" feature a cylindrical weave of electronic and organic percussion, opaque but insistent synthesizers playing chord progressions, and, of course, acoustic and electric guitars either chiming in single- and double-string Brucknerian motifs or churning on two or three chords hypnotically into the ether.

While some of the themes presented here later became the foundation for a ponderous kind of new age disc music, there is plenty of spaced-out psychedelia and churning rock ellipsis here ("Feuerland") for fans of early Krautrock. This remains one of Rother's strongest and most visionary records.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Flammende Herzen
Zyklodrom

Side Two

Karussell
Feuerland
Zeni

Released on 'Sky Records' in 1977

Catalogue No. SKY 007

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface wear)

Sleeve is in EX condition (light shelfwear)

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