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  CDGRON78CD  £8.00

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Groenland / Water Music Records

Harmonia

Live 1974

Harmonia were formed from the crusts of Kraftwerk Neu and Cluster and make up something equally as tantalising as any of those three acts inspired according to Moebius by 'Velvet Underground Mozart Coltrane Brel Arabic Hindu the list goes on and on' Over the years they've turned the heads of anyone who's heard them such as Brian Eno who once declared them the world's most important rock band David Bowie the Edge Aphex Twin and more recently Secret Machines who've been known to include a cover of 'Deluxe Immer Wieder' in their sets This is a dusteddown recording of hypnotic machine music from a gig on March 23rd 1974 It was recorded at the Penny Station Club a former railway station in Griessem 'in front of about fifty people' according to Neu mainman Rother who played the same venue in 1971 when he was still a member of Kraftwerk It still sounds as experimental as it must have done in that former railway station thirtythree years ago It certainly shows the kids a thing or two about losing themselves in music The album contains just one track under nineminutes featuring the wiggy industrial chug it was recorded in a former railway station of 'Schaumburg' the pulsing seventeenminute opus that is 'Veteranissimo' the almost pop songshort 'Arabesque' the dark and dubby prototrip hop of 'Holta Polta' and ambient template 'Ueber Ottenstein' Full of twists turns and hidden depths these experimentsinsound are what Roedelius calls artistic science 'We were still are experimental Science and art are really sisters in the way they approach reality exploring what there is and trying to do something different with it'