Ah yes, one of the best albums I've ever heard. The world takes on a nice sepia tone when this short, 7-track beauty is on. By '76, Krautrock legends Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had moved away from their noise/proto-industrial beginnings, were living in a cottage in a forest and were incorporating state-of-the-art analogue synths into a blissfully relaxed new sound. It could be termed ambient (there aren't many beats), but that does not do it justice. "Sowiesoso"'s overlapping, building melodies can be eerily unsettling and totally blissful, often at the same time. Tracks like the majestic "Zum Wohl" and "In Ewigkeit" hit heights which weren't scaled again for another 15, 20 years, until the likes of Aphex Twin, Tortoise and Boards of Canada came along. Part of what makes the album so special is its magnificent restraint...if a piece needs 7 minutes or more to stretch out and build, that's what happens. Cluster's aim was 100% true with this one, there is no filler. Moebius and Roedelius had some other fantastic albums, both as Cluster ("Zuckerzeit", especially) and as two-thirds of Harmonia (with Michael Rother of Neu!), but to me this is their pinnacle.
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1
Sowiesoso
8:08
2
Halwa
2:48
3
Dem Wanderer
3:52
4
Umleitung
3:26
5
Zum Wohl
6:51
6
Es War Einmal
5:23
7
In Ewigkeit
7:24
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1/24/11
Cluster - Sowiesoso (1976)
Ah yes, one of the best albums I've ever heard. The world takes on a nice sepia tone when this short, 7-track beauty is on. By '76, Krautrock legends Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had moved away from their noise/proto-industrial beginnings, were living in a cottage in a forest and were incorporating state-of-the-art analogue synths into a blissfully relaxed new sound. It could be termed ambient (there aren't many beats), but that does not do it justice. "Sowiesoso"'s overlapping, building melodies can be eerily unsettling and totally blissful, often at the same time. Tracks like the majestic "Zum Wohl" and "In Ewigkeit" hit heights which weren't scaled again for another 15, 20 years, until the likes of Aphex Twin, Tortoise and Boards of Canada came along. Part of what makes the album so special is its magnificent restraint...if a piece needs 7 minutes or more to stretch out and build, that's what happens. Cluster's aim was 100% true with this one, there is no filler. Moebius and Roedelius had some other fantastic albums, both as Cluster ("Zuckerzeit", especially) and as two-thirds of Harmonia (with Michael Rother of Neu!), but to me this is their pinnacle.
via
1
Sowiesoso
8:08
2
Halwa
2:48
3
Dem Wanderer
3:52
4
Umleitung
3:26
5
Zum Wohl
6:51
6
Es War Einmal
5:23
7
In Ewigkeit
7:24
...
