Qluster: Elemente - VINYL LP

Qluster: Elemente - VINYL LPTitle: Elemente Artist: Qluster Label: Bureau B Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 4015698020052 Genre: Pop Release Date: 2018 11 02 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: WITH CD, 2 PACK Elemente album number seven from the third incarnation of the legendary krautronic project Kluster Cluster springs a surprise with a minor sensation: sequencer lines. Using an array of exclusively analogue instruments, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Onnen Bock, and Armin Metz have

Title: Elemente
Artist: Qluster
Label: Bureau B
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4015698020052
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2018-11-02
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: WITH CD, 2 PACK

Elemente - album number seven from the third incarnation of the legendary krautronic project Kluster/Cluster springs a surprise with a minor sensation: sequencer lines. Using an array of exclusively analogue instruments, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Onnen Bock, and Armin Metz have recorded eight tracks which, at one and the same time, are intrinsically hypnotic and sublimely beautiful. In principle, Elemente was created in much the same fashion as earlier Qluster albums: the three musicians met up in Schönberg, a remote hamlet in northern Mecklenburg. The eight pieces were distilled from the original recordings of their lengthy improvised sessions, with additional elements added to only three of the tracks in the production process: a synthesizer melody for "Zeno", a prepared piano for "Xymelan" and a computer beat for "Tatum". First special feature on the new album: the "tools of the trade". In their choice of equipment, Qluster reach back to their own history as Cluster, more than forty years ago, when legendary albums like 1974's Zuckerzeit (LR 333LP), 1976's Sowiesoso (BB 039CD/LP), and 1981's Curiosum (BB 038CD/LP) were made. Elemente has been crafted exclusively with analog instruments: a range of analog synthesizers, rhythm machines, a Farfisa organ, a Fender Rhodes piano, and various effects devices plus - second special feature and making it's debut in the band's narrative - a 1970s sequencer playing an endless loop of manually recorded melodies, fed through effects and equalizers to achieve that typically hypnotic sequencer character. Listen out for them on "Perpetuum", "Xymelan", "Tatum" and "Lindow". By way of contrast, "Weite" and "Infinitum" unfold in vast echo chambers, free of metrics. Between these two very different musical forms lie "Zeno" and "Symbia". The former pulsates with long deep breaths beneath delicate sequences of notes emanating from the ARP 2600, the latter, "Symbia", layers a songlike Rhodes piano melody over an echoing, rhythmic Farfisa organ chord. After four electronic productions and two piano albums, Qluster now invite you to visit eight new and beguilingly beautiful worlds of sound on Elemente.

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