https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kVr8_c-HJY
― am0n, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
sowiesoso is all time obv but wenn der südwind weht got me thru this last week so voted that. LOTTA options though. rodelius is playing in atlanta soon, obv i'm going - anyone seen him lately?
― balls, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
>This poll is cruel. Cruel!
yes, should have had 'they are as alike as trees and best considered as a whole' option
there are really only about 4 or 5 of them that haven't been my favorite at some point. even the ones that seemed slight at first, I keep coming back to. and the main albums all sound so radically different from each other and yet you can always tell it's them within seconds
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
totallywhy choose? it's like choosing which tropical fruit i like best. i like them all -- they are tropical fruit!
i guess i marginally prefer solo roedelius to solo moebius, but i prefer them together overall
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
so I can't vote kluster & friends huh
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
seriously considering voting for harmonia live '74. god, it's so good.
― original bgm, Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing how hard it is for everyone to choose -- myself included. Has any outfit assembled such a diverse yet consistently innovative catalogue? I mean, in addition to those already mentioned, I'd rep for the piano loops of Wie Das Wisperen Der Winde almost as much as, say, Harmonia Live '74.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 29 September 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
love love love Jardin au Fou, but I still don't really know what to vote for.
Might go with that just so it gets a nod, though these Harmonia records. Man.
― kraudive, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
>so I can't vote kluster & friends huh
no M or R on any of those. was a little tweaked by Schnitzler using the Kluster name to release music by the band that at the time was known as Eruption, but the music on that box was consistently good and admittedly sounded in the same vein as Kluster.
I was tempted to make this a 68-86 poll to include the Human Being record, and probably should have
got the Wasser Im Wind CD last night, which sounds a lot clearer than the fuzzy transfer Roedelius was selling from his website for years, but y'know what I think I prefer the fuzzy transfer. that album was the first one with acoustic instruments like sax & violin & I think I liked it more when it was harder to tell that was the case, although he's still in Selbstportrait melody-writing mode
>Has any outfit assembled such a diverse yet consistently innovative catalogue?
No
― Milton Parker, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
i noticed Roedelius is doing a show in sf (cafe du nord iirc) soon. anybody seen a show by him here?
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Friday, 30 September 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Voted z.z. top.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Saturday, 1 October 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
real tough but had to go with Sowiesoso... if for nothing other than nostalgic reasons.
― zoom, Sunday, 2 October 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 2 October 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I, for one, am outraged.
I kid: Sowiesoso is amazing.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
props to whoever voted curiosum. underrated record.
― original bgm, Monday, 3 October 2011 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
that was me
bummed no one voted doppelschnitt. side two has treated me so well on road trips the last 20 years, people only catching up now. 'recorded in minimalstudio'
love all 36 of you peoples
― Milton Parker, Monday, 3 October 2011 05:44 (twelve years ago) link
& favorite roedelius solo, still selbstportrait vol III
― Milton Parker, Monday, 3 October 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
& for posterity now that the votes have come in, the original chronology
Human Being - Live at the Zodiak, Berlin 1968 (2009)Kluster - Klopzeichen (1971)Kluster - Zwei-Osterei (1971)Kluster - Eruption (1971)Cluster - Cluster '71 (1971)Cluster - Cluster II (1972)Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia (1974)Harmonia - Live '74 (2007)Cluster - Zuckerzeit (1974)Harmonia - Deluxe (1975)Cluster - Sowiesoso (1976)Harmonia 76 - Tracks and Traces (1997)Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno (1977)Liliental - Liliental (1978)Roedelius - Durch die Wüste (1978)Eno Moebius Roedelius - After The Heat (1978)Cluster - Grosses Wasser (1979)Roedelius - Jardin au Fou (1979)Roedelius - Selbstportrait (1979)Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta (1980)Cluster & Farnbauer - Live in Vienna 1980 (2010)Roedelius - Selbstportrait Vol. II (1980)Roedelius - Selbstportrait Vol. III (1980)Cluster - Curiosum (1981)Roedelius - Lustwandel (1981)Moebius & Plank - Material (1981)Roedelius - Wenn Der Südwind Weht (1981)Moebius & Beerbohm - Strange Music (1982)Roedelius - Offene Türen (1982)Roedelius - Flieg Vogel Fliege (1982)Roedelius - Wasser im Wind (1982)Moebius - Tonspuren (1983)Moebius / Plank / Neumeier - Zero Set (1983)Moebius & Beerbohm - Double Cut (1984)Roedelius - Gift of the Moment (1984)Roedelius - Wie Das Wispern Des Windes... (1986)Moebius - Blue Moon Soundtrack (1986)
― Milton Parker, Monday, 3 October 2011 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
props to whoever voted cluster 71 o wait that was me
― black metal version of "the boy with the thorn in his side" (Edward III), Monday, 3 October 2011 06:05 (twelve years ago) link
couldn't we break this down into a couple of polls? how did you guys figure out what to vote for
― frogbs, Monday, 16 July 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
I voted for my favorite album
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
we could always do Roedelius
― Milton Parker, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
I would be very much down with that.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://connyplank.com/img/werke/02.jpg
...anthony perkins
― Milton Parker, Monday, 14 January 2013 06:52 (eleven years ago) link
Broken Head (1) Remix with stray guitarBroken Head (2) ... without
― Milton Parker, Monday, 14 January 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://connyplank.com/ btw
― Milton Parker, Monday, 14 January 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
Dolby A
― sarahell, Monday, 14 January 2013 09:05 (eleven years ago) link
Dolby!
― ♨ (am0n), Monday, 14 January 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Roedelius always seems to put me into some kind of fever dream state. It's an interesting phenomenon.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 14 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty excited to see the tracklist for the first 2 discs of that Plank box.
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
I am pretty excited for disc 4 of that Plank box
― Milton Parker, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
That too! Everything except disc 3 basically!
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Monday, 14 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
selbstporträts i & ii are so great
― the late great, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Was listening to stuff on random and "Legende" came up; what an incredible (and way too short!) piece that one was. are any of the later roedeliuses worth diving into?
― frogbs, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
the electronic arrangement of Legende, Alle Jahre Wieder, on Selbstportrait II is even better
all the Roedelius albums on this poll are pretty lovable, I think I mutter about some of the latterdays on the Roedelius thread
― Milton Parker, Monday, 14 January 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Every time Heise Lippen(Zuckerzeit) comes up on my random playlist, it makes me smile.:)
― Das Aqualungenlied (doo dah), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
thought i'd heard all the crucial roedelius stuff but only now just got around to this one. really his best of the solo piano works. apparently its a tribute to his mother
http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/r/roedelius-wie_das_wispern_des_winds.jpg
― am0n, Sunday, 20 January 2013 07:47 (eleven years ago) link
I bought that on iTunes -- there's something funky going on with that record. I can't tell if it's that the record is multitracked, edited together with loops or if he is using a long delay on his piano.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 January 2013 06:13 (eleven years ago) link
Moebius solo albums creep me out
― dojo, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
For those of you who might be interested, I have posted the entire Kluster / Cluster / Harmonia / Roedelius discography here - along with the album reviews here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stepheniliffe/sets/72157624709969408/
Best wishes, Stephen Iliffe (author of Painting with Sound - the life and music of Roedelius)
― Stephen Iliffe, Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
wow, very cool, thanks
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Your Flickr account is a treasure trove, Stephen.
Loved your book, btw.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 25 January 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
wow, I didn't know about half these thing
time to go waste 2 hours
― frogbs, Friday, 25 January 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
wow ¡¡muchísimas gracias!!
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Friday, 25 January 2013 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHvgZmwjCq8
― am0n, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
recently got the Bureau B reissue of 'Sowiesoso', which is the first CD edition to restore the first minute of the title track which has been missing from every digital edition since the 90's Sky one. It's so good to hear the long slow build all the way through again. They didn't finesse some of the crispy distortions out of some of the surges the way they did with the Water reissue, but I like it, the fry is supposed to be there, sounds like the original wafer-thin vinyl.
if your mp3 is 7:20 and not 8:11, totally worth rectifying
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
Oh that's great to know. My copy is still the old Gyroscope CD but that's an all time top 20 album for me.
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
full length version
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
Mind blown
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 04:25 (ten years ago) link
does anyone know which month Zuckerzeit came out in 1974?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link