Harmonia, large and in charge

According to Michael Rothers website, Harmonia will not only release the live recording from 1974 as we've mentined below. No. They will also perform live in Berlin again, for the first time in over 30 years. Here's the information, as it was written by someone else:

Berlin will see the first Harmonia concert since 1976 on 27th November 2007 when Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius will open the Worldtronics festival at the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" with their live appearance as Harmonia. More information will follow soon.

New old music from Harmonia

Krautrock supergroup Harmonia was created when Cluster/Kluster members Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius joined forces with ex Kraftwerk member and Neu! founder Michael Rother in 1973. The band released the brilliant albums "Musik von Harmonia" (1974) and "Harmonia de Luxe" (1975). In 1976, they recorded an album with Brian Eno. The album, titled "Tracks and Traces", wasn't released until 1997.

This fall, Groenland Records (Europe) and Water Records (US) will release a so far unreleased 1974 live recording by Harmonia. This is brilliant news, of course. The title will be the rather imaginative "Live 1974". The release date seems to be set to late September. CD and LP. Look out.

Begegnungen

Just wanted to let you know that Brian Eno and David Byrne has done better things than “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts”. We'll focus on Eno.

The best examples are the two “Begegnungen” compilations (1984, 1985) and “After the Heat” (1978). These records together describe Eno's collaborations with the amazing Cluster/Kluster/Harmonia men Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. naturally, Conny Plank is involved, we wouldn't have it any other way. Mani Neumeier, the drummer from Guru Guru, is also there (but for some reason his name is not on the covers).

With these three records you sort of get everything you need at once. Heat, cool, instrumental, vocal, english, german, acoustic, synthetic. These are documents of an era. Complete aural pleasure. A genre of its own. Get them today, you will disappear when you hear the music.