Cluster on Brain Records, Brian Eno and Harmonia

Cluster on Brain Records, Brian Eno and Harmonia | Red Bull Music Academy

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Highly influential and utterly unique, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and the late Dieter Moebius shaped the direction of popular music - without even intending to do so.
This talk, at the 2010 Red Bull Music Academy in London, takes in their earliest collaborations as Cluster, their work with Neu’s Michael Rother as Harmonia, their longstanding relationship with producer Conny Plank and their friendship with Brian Eno.
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TOPICS:
9:45 - Early influences
17:46 - Catholic record label
25:30 - Brain Records
30:10 - Harmonia
43:08 - Brian Eno
57:21 - Krautrock
MUSIC:
3:34 - Kluster - “Klopfzeichen Pt. 2” • Kluster - Klopfzeichen...
16:17 - Kluster - “Electric Music Und Text” • Kluster - Zwei-Osterei...
21:43 - Cluster - Untitled • Cluster - Cluster 71 (...
27:05 - Cluster - “Im Süden” • Video
32:58 - Harmonia - “Ohrwurm” • Harmonia - Musik von H...
34:15 - Harmonia - “Watussi” • Harmonia - Watussi
38:35 - Cluster - “James” • Cluster-James
41:06 - Cluster - “Heisse Lippen” • Cluster - Heisse Lippe...
46:54 - Harmonia - “Notre Dame” • Harmonia - Notre Dame ...
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@RBMA 4 жыл бұрын

You can read more about the interview here... ► www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/cluster-the-kosmische-couple

@andrewgould5067 7 жыл бұрын

RIP Moebius. I never complement people, but this is a brilliant interview. Thank you.

@eurostarnamastar3128 Жыл бұрын

Glad other listeners here pick up on the attitude of the young, smart but inexperienced host. These 2 men represent a standard mentality of European artists loving and living their art. The much younger host seems to come from a typical American point of view that art is good if it sells and makes money. That's a big difference in cultural conditioning. Glad that Conny Plank got mentioned in the talks....love his work with UltraVox. Germany really took off during the 70s Disco era when Munich acquired it's own sound (Silver Convention 'Fly Robin Fly'). The airwaves were energized as the evolving Kraftwerk unleashed 'Trans European Express' .... followed in the 1980s by their monumental 'Computer World'. Giorgio Moroder recorded the soundtrack to film 'Midnight Express' ... but his epic with Donna Summer... ' I Feel Love' (drummer Kieth Forsey of Aman Duul2) totally changed the future of all electronic music to come! Brian Eno who was recording in Germany with Robert Fripp and David Bowie told everyone that ' I Feel Love ' was the sound of the future.

@spectralisation Жыл бұрын

Why would anyone, having an hour or so to talk to the legendary Cluster, waste time chatting about "how did you get signed to this label or that label"?? How about the philosophy, creative thought process, technical process behind the music itself?

@movimentodoscacos 7 ай бұрын

Well, Egon is an executive and he apparently can only think in "being-an-executive" terms.

@sebastianavendano7872 3 жыл бұрын

dieter moebius is one of the most inspiring musical artist i have the fortune of listening to, he really isnpired me, and I just love everything he has done

@ShahriarTaherkhani 8 жыл бұрын

I LOVE THIS ! I Love both of them, They are my here in Electronic Experimental Music . Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius

@jhmevanderpoel Жыл бұрын

Got most off the albums of Cluster. Very interesting music.

@douglasanderson8636 2 ай бұрын

I want to be like these guys when I"m old. Total legends

@rgehlhaar 9 жыл бұрын

At the peak of his career, Stockhausen's was globally famous & attracted huge audiences and attention (see Beatles' St Peppers album sleeve). I know this because I worked with him in the 60s and played his music. The concerts were always sold out no matter where we went, most of the audience was young people.

@oblomurg 8 жыл бұрын

+Rolf Gehlhaar Karlheinz is high-brow, Cluster is Low-brow, intuitive,rock based. These musics shouldn't be compared.

@arnesramic1246 7 жыл бұрын

That's incredible that you worked with stockhausen!

@jacksonfritts2988 5 жыл бұрын

Wow... that is genuinely insane. How was the experience?

@finosuilleabhain7781 5 жыл бұрын

What a pleasant surprise to see you on here (albeit three years ago!), as one who is well aware of your legend. I worked with him myself in a much different (non-musical) capacity a little later, having worked during 1980-2000 on a book about listening to his music. I get the impression that his music is at least as popular now as it has ever been. On his videos here on KZfaq you get the old 'bogeyman' comments but also many from people who are getting something from his worth. Best wishes.

@finosuilleabhain7781 5 жыл бұрын

@@oblomurg Their whole thing was not to be rock and roll. I'd say they are pitched between the two things and the last thing I'd call them is lowbrow - that's a total misunderstanding if not an insult. James last - now that's lowbrow.

@cosmicdrifter287 9 жыл бұрын

legends.

@user-hd7we5et5b 4 күн бұрын

Excellent!

@udomatthiasdrums5322 2 жыл бұрын

still love it!!

@Caligula138 9 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@Nechepsos 4 жыл бұрын

I bet Coil would dig it

@davidtrujillo1602 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the documentary on Brain Records?

@user-hd7we5et5b 4 күн бұрын

Insane!

@Rondo2ooo 3 жыл бұрын

I have seen 3 or 4 RB Music Academy videos now. The guests are deeply interesting and I love the information you get out of these series. But, the interviewers seem like 'oh, I am so cool and artistic' kind of. Very common among musicians unfortunately. A bit of arrogance with lack of professionalism and knowledge... It is still good, but could be much better. Get better people.

@mikrophonie5633 Жыл бұрын

I agree...but it's too late, Red Bull Music Academy has closed.

@lovbladkarl-olof3975 Жыл бұрын

I fully agree

@benjaminhooper6076 4 жыл бұрын

God I got 25 mins in and didn't read the comments and I'm glad to see most people think the same as me, god does this guy grate on you or what!? Who is this industry dude? I'm stunned at his patronising approach to the music of cluster, how he views it, the lack of focus on their melodic genius and ability to craft. Lord It's just classic 'HipHop' rubbish, no in depth analysis and just skimming over the prime aspects of deep atmospheric listening. To this man Cluster wasn't one of the greatest groups of all time, just another thing to 'sample', to me it's always a dirty word. Long live cluster, they were and still are the 'real' future!

@volkerd714 Жыл бұрын

Yeah grating for sure. No relationship to authentic expression and creation. Just a consumer and evaluator.

@marguskiis7711 Жыл бұрын

Roedelius is 80plus here but looks like ca 60.

@OerythiaDeQuatrefages 5 жыл бұрын

This interviewer facial expressions at every 'listening' moments is almost asking for a face slap. He constantly play on the card that their music is supposedly unpublishable while always questioning about what they were listening; as if a creative process is solely based on references, it looks like he is unable to even accept that they can have an eclectic musical taste and that their initial inspiration came from the contemporary art world of the time. I bet that Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Dieter Moebius werent' very pleased with that encounter as the interviewer totally bypass the chance to ask them meaningful questions.

@volkerd714 Жыл бұрын

Yeah there's an insecurity like he can't relate to genuine authentic music-making so he can't appreciate it. He seems to have a very consumerist 'hipster' attitude toward art of consuming and defining it, EVALUATING it. There's a lack of curiosity to truly openly invite anything novel from which he would gain depth and understanding in his experience of the music, its creation and its creators. His perspective is very self-centered and appeals in an implicit but foundational way to false egoic notions of objective value and an internalization that objective value is constituted by approval from peers and the general public. Once again I perceive there to be an inability to appreciate the creative process due to a compulsive and deeply foundational egoic schema of relating to things evaluatively -- either to idealize and want to possess something or to dismiss and distance oneself from something because it is not held in high esteem by others. This guy negs a lot.

@dpalaoro Жыл бұрын

@@volkerd714 Great write up.

@geoffreyperrin4046 9 ай бұрын

Yep, the interviewer is incredibly annoying.

@robguitarwizard 3 жыл бұрын

This young Johnny Come Lately is talking too much about himself. Limited time with two legends.

@poppagrump 2 жыл бұрын

hahah thats egon (now again, madlib) but yes wish it was much longer

@authoritease 2 жыл бұрын

Red Bull, please hire/invite the right interviewer for the right artists... someone who has some knowledge and respect for the artists and their music. It's not about age, as was proposed in previous comments. It's about knowledge, understanding, care and deep interest in or understanding of the total oeuvre. It's not that he knows nothing about histories of music, it's more that he's a terrible interviewer and in this case has no understanding of their earlier music in relation to post-WWii Germany for example. Judgmental, presumptuous, incredulous, foolish tone most of the time. "This must have sold tons." Moebius and Roedelius were much too generous here. Egon names influential bands at the time and comments as if to ask - if you were listening to them, why didn't you sound more like them? This interview exemplifies a problem with Red Bull music academy, that many just want to know how to succeed in the business. For Moebius and Roedelius it's been a way of life.

@volkerd714 Жыл бұрын

"Judgmental, presumptuous, incredulous, foolish tone most of the time" "For Moebius and Roedelius it's been a way of life." YEP. Interviewer cant relate to the authenticity.

@Glenny-vk4np 9 ай бұрын

This interviewer is a blight on the proceedings. He really wants to push the "you should be resentful of Eno for ripping you off"narrative. What a waste of an opportunity. Meanwhile the legendary members of Cluster just ooze class.

@deecee6672 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, man, this guy is for the birds. But at least he's keeping it moving along, but as a long time fan, I would have asked more important questions.

@volkerd714 Жыл бұрын

With this interviewer I feel like there is a foundational insecurity like he can't relate to genuine authentic music-making so he can't appreciate it. He seems to have a very consumerist 'hipster' attitude toward art of consuming and defining it, EVALUATING it. There's a lack of curiosity to truly openly invite anything novel from which he would gain depth and understanding in his experience of the music, its creators and its creators. His perspective is very self-centered and appeals in an implicit but foundational way to false egoic notions of objective value and an internalization that objective value is constituted by approval from peers and the general public. Once again I perceive there to be an inability to appreciate the creative process due to a compulsive and deeply foundational egoic schema of relating to things evaluatively -- either to idealize and want to possess something or to dismiss and distance oneself from something because it is not held in high esteem by others. This guy negs a lot.

@mikrophonie5633 Жыл бұрын

An English journalist invented the term Krautrock in the early 70s as a disparaging term. That interviewer should have done his homework. Clueless.

@cemegonuts 8 жыл бұрын

i love how the interviewer tries to frame their beginnings in the terms of the modern music industry. The types of restraints and rituals (A&R men) and stuff like that didn't exist then. This is why music was so much better then. Now we have this huge machine behind the sales of music, and it ruins the creative aspect. The interviewer is very naive. I almost pity him. He's too young to understand the perspective of Moebius and Roedelius. They should have had an older interviewer. The interviewer's parents were probably in diapers when the first Kluster album came out.

@badfreddytube 8 жыл бұрын

+cemegonuts l think he was honest and humble really. He didnt claim to be any kind of expert. A lot of interviewers bring a lot of baggage to the interviews, historical context and theories.. l just got the impression he was a bit of a fan and wanted to know.

@ajd626 7 жыл бұрын

Don't be so judgemental. The whole point of the interview is to interview older, experienced artists in front of a young, inexperienced audience.

@finosuilleabhain7781 5 жыл бұрын

A&R men didn't exist in the mid-70s? That's naive. Seems to me this guy has a mix of knowledge and wanting them to recount their own story that is perfect for his young audience and for anyone watching this vid. Do we feel we know Cluster a little better after watching this? Sure we do, and he should be given credit.

@OerythiaDeQuatrefages 5 жыл бұрын

Cluster was on vinyls, see the result when you try to play it from a CD… ;-) I don't understand the connection the interviewer makes with psychedelic music, cluster is Ambient music and their first album is even closer to Industrial music, no much to do with psychedelic bands such as i.e. Cream & the likes … Not being ageist I don't think the issue is age in any case but I instantly had an unpleasant feeling about this interviewer as well, yes I assume he does his best.

@OerythiaDeQuatrefages 5 жыл бұрын

Listening further into the interview it's evident that the interviewer has only done a hasty homework and not much else, indeed a more enlightened person would have been much better! Regardless of the age…

@robertsyrett1992 7 жыл бұрын

LOL, he is using a CD in the 21st century... How retro.

@psychederekmusic 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely terrible interviewer. Who does he think he is?

@rgehlhaar 9 жыл бұрын

doesn't even come close to the earlier(!) electronic music of Stockhausen and a few other contemporaries...

@omegatomhanksfgc 9 жыл бұрын

Rolf Gehlhaar wait, people actually enjoy Stockhausen?

@howardamess452 4 жыл бұрын

@@omegatomhanksfgc nothing wrong with it-Can wouldnt be anywhere without his guidance..dont be harsh please-Prozession IS awesome. As is 7 Days/Hymnen..wunderbar!

@howardamess452 4 жыл бұрын

Listen to Oskar Sala and Roland Kayn/Gottfried Michael Koenig-awesome pioneers..u can be critical if u do know talking about-cos i do, having been a fan of theirs for 30 years!