Michael Rother post-NEU!

i've heard the first three solo albums and they're all sort of like neu! but they just kind of trudge on without much in the way of development. there are good songs here and there, but la duesseldorf was definitely better.

The next album, "Sterntaler" is pretty much a facsimile of the first album. "Katzenmusik" doesn't deviate much either. "Fernwarme" has more electronics, I prefer to the two albums preceding it. Thereafter he got involved in samplers and stopped working with Jaki Liebezeit with disastrous consequences, "Lust" is dire. Next album is(title?) is better, but who cares really?

In truth, none of his solo work is anywhere near as good as the "Michael Rother" stuff he did with Neu!(e.g. "Isi" and "Seeland") or Harmonia ("Deluxe" title track). Sadly.

his solo work really makes me think i underestimated dinger's contribution to neu!

Well it's difficult to know who contributed what in Neu!, apart from Dinger obviously playing the drums.

Neu = "Virginia Plain" instrumental break

... discuss

dadaismus nailed it with the krautrock Mike Oldfield comment. I love Rother's first four albums, but they're on the dippy side. If you like the mellow tracks on Neu! 75 though, you should definitely check them out (I actually prefer the first four Rother albums to Neu! 75)

the Rother gig with Frusciante and Klinghoffer last year was great. Mainly stuff off the first four albums, but when they played the later stuff from the Fairlight albums, many of the synth melodies were replaced by Frusciante guitar leads -- the tunes from the later scary albums suddenly sounded as if they could have been from the first four. they added a five minute one-chord coda to 'Silberstreif' (first track from Fernwarme with the inside-your-cat's-head melody) which is probably the closest I'm ever going to get to seeing Neu! live. I sure do hope they put out a live record, it'd be like a Rother greatest hits disc.

Michael Rother (plus some indie superstars) perform the work of NEU! at the Barbican this October...

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=11079

(I think someone brought this up on the School of Seven Bells thread but knew this would have a wider appeal.)

i love katzenmusik

Rather UK-centric, that. They're doing a whole tour:

http://www.michaelrother.de/en/news_single.php?nid=86

xp

I'm from London. I don't give a shit about anything that happens outside Zone 7. :-P

Also just confirmed for ATP In Between Days this December: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/inbetweendays2010.php

Saw the first performance in Barcelona back in May and it was fantastic. Well worth going to.

Might check them out as I didn't see their whole set at Primavera. Can someone ID this track from there, might be by Harmonia?

http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=35966&archive=61070&starttime=3:47:00

Really wanted to go to Dockville festival in Hamburg, Rother's hometown, where they'll be playing and Rother and Shelley will also be doing a joint DJ/electronic (?) set. Looks like I can't make it though, sadly.

http://msdockville.de/

wfmu track is Deluxe by Harmonia. sounds great!

thx! not on spotify durnit.

If I was in a band I'd book some studio time in Forst.

Hell yes!

looks so nice

Ben Watt is looking well, considering...

whoa fuck, look at that 2" machine

thanks for sharing that link.

i dig on everything through Fernwarme. snagged all of those re-issues on Water used at Reckless (Chicago) in the last year.

i did see the Hallogallo tour last year in Columbus, OH, with Steve from Sonic Youth on drums. One of the best shows I've ever seen, for sure. The Harmonia material in particular was fantastic to hear. Hoping he does another small tour like that...I'd say there were 200+ people at the Columbus show...really receptive.

no big deal just the original photo for the Musik Von Harmonia gatefold just thumbtacked to the wall, probably feet from the actual room that it is a photo of

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/features/2011/michael-rother-09.jpg

I might have been imaging it but I think there are glimpse of the studio in the BBC4 doc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEeuy8R3bNg&feature=related

"zyklodrom" > neu!

i think i've mentioned this before, but michael rother is a good-looking man.

yeah it's crazy, both him and Karoli were very handsome, Rother still is despite being like 60

see also - Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk

strange scene

... and Peter Baumann!

really enjoyed the new album (with vittoria maccabruni)
highlights on first listen were 'see through', 'happy' and the "i want more" euphoria in 'exp 1'

Not sure which thread to push. Anyone seen him recently? Thinking of wrapping up a whole short holiday / journey around one of his September gigs.

Some recent reports here:
what does michael rother sound like live these days?

duh. thank you!