Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Geradewohl (1973) video free download

The electronic pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a legendary figure in modern music.

Hans-Joachim Roedelius was born in 1934. A child actor in Nazi propaganda films, an unwilling member of Hitter's youth army and a prisoner of East German communists, he escaped to West Berlin after the war and formed the Zodiak Free Arts Lab with Conrad Schnrtzler.

Here he met Dieter Moebius (born 1944), a young Swiss art student who was working as a chef and had become involved in an audience participation performance. The pair, with Schnitzler. started Kluster before continuing as a duo under the name Cluster.

Both non-musicians attracted by the possibilities of new electronic sound generators (and the occasional cello), and determined to find new ways of living and expression, they toured art spaces in a van (even taking their caravan of noise to support Jimi Hendrix at a concert in Germany).

They recorded a number of albums with Conny Plank before escaping to the country at Forst in Lower Saxony. In this rural retreat Roedelius and Moebius began their experiments with ambience, melody and whirlpools of electronic rhythm in their farmhouse studio.

A visit from Michael Rother of Neu! resulted in two albums as Harmonia CMusik Von Harmonia' and 'Deluxe') and from Brian Eno (recently having left Roxy Music) also produced a number of LPs and. once Eno had returned to Britain, the birth of ambient music.

Roedelius and Moebius have continued, both together, as solo artists, and with a vast array of collaborators to produce countless albums and. now in their late 60s and 70s respectively, continue on an endless world tour.

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