limited hand numbered 180g lp (1000 only) the friendliness of the music is clearly due to the two personalities of roedelius and moebius; its down-to-earth character possibly comes from michael rother, the album’s co-producer. michael rother had already performed with kraftwerk and had founded the band neu! together with klaus dinger before moving to idyllic forst himself in 1973. the same year, the band harmonia (roedelius, moebius, rother) was born. the music might also have been influenced by the lovely environment of the hilly countryside surrounding them. we are told that some of the visitors to forst had believed themselves in tolkien’s shire, although nobody had ever seen hobbits in the area. maybe this impression was an all too romantic one. yet, those who have experienced this peaceful atmosphere for themselves may at least be able to understand what we are talking about. by then, cluster could finally call themselves lucky owners of their own recording equipment consisting of a multi-track recording machine, a mixer and peripherals. this gave them the possibility to develop and record their zuckerzeit material without precipitating things or having to depend on other people. so they did everything on their own except for the finishing which took place in the studio of conny plank, the sonic magician of their early days, something which vitally accounted for a successful outcome by the way.
limited hand numbered 180g lp (1000 only) the friendliness of the music is clearly due to the two personalities of roedelius and moebius; its down-to-earth character possibly comes from michael rother, the album’s co-producer. michael rother had already performed with kraftwerk and had founded the band neu! together with klaus dinger before moving to idyllic forst himself in 1973. the same year, the band harmonia (roedelius, moebius, rother) was born. the music might also have been influenced by the lovely environment of the hilly countryside surrounding them. we are told that some of the visitors to forst had believed themselves in tolkien’s shire, although nobody had ever seen hobbits in the area. maybe this impression was an all too romantic one. yet, those who have experienced this peaceful atmosphere for themselves may at least be able to understand what we are talking about. by then, cluster could finally call themselves lucky owners of their own recording equipment consisting of a multi-track recording machine, a mixer and peripherals. this gave them the possibility to develop and record their zuckerzeit material without precipitating things or having to depend on other people. so they did everything on their own except for the finishing which took place in the studio of conny plank, the sonic magician of their early days, something which vitally accounted for a successful outcome by the way.
limited hand numbered 180g lp (1000 only) the friendliness of the music is clearly due to the two personalities of roedelius and moebius; its down-to-earth character possibly comes from michael rother, the album’s co-producer. michael rother had already performed with kraftwerk and had founded the band neu! together with klaus dinger before moving to idyllic forst himself in 1973. the same year, the band harmonia (roedelius, moebius, rother) was born. the music might also have been influenced by the lovely environment of the hilly countryside surrounding them. we are told that some of the visitors to forst had believed themselves in tolkien’s shire, although nobody had ever seen hobbits in the area. maybe this impression was an all too romantic one. yet, those who have experienced this peaceful atmosphere for themselves may at least be able to understand what we are talking about. by then, cluster could finally call themselves lucky owners of their own recording equipment consisting of a multi-track recording machine, a mixer and peripherals. this gave them the possibility to develop and record their zuckerzeit material without precipitating things or having to depend on other people. so they did everything on their own except for the finishing which took place in the studio of conny plank, the sonic magician of their early days, something which vitally accounted for a successful outcome by the way.
