Kluster - 2008 - Vulcano

Kluster

2008 

Vulcano

01. (2:57)
02. (2:58)
03. (3:15)
04. (2:03)
05. (1:46)
06. (1:54)
07. (1:08)
08. (1:39)
09. (2:33)
10. (3:50)
11. (3:02)
12. (3:28)
13. (1:33)
14. (5:55)
15. (1:56)
16. (3:42)
17. (4:10)
18. (4:21)
19. (2:40)
20. (1:47)
21. (2:42)
22. (1:49)
23. (1:55)

Conrad Schnitzler
Klaus Freudigmann
Wolfgang Seidel

Recorded live in Wuppertal, Germany, 1971.

Typo printed on disc: "Live In Wupperton".

Packaged in a mini-LP gatefold card cover (with inner sleeve advertising other Important Records releases).

VULCANO: LIVE IN WUPPERTAL is a 1971 concert recording by Kluster, the short-lived Krautrock pioneers who splintered off into the similarly named/better-known Cluster. Released in conjunction with another posthumous collection from the band's final days, ADMIRA, it documents the period when Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had departed, leaving Conrad Schnitzler at the helm. Contained herein are some characteristically evocative and arresting electro-acoustic sounds that prefigure everything from ambient to industrial music.

Alright! Now, this so very much more like it. So much better than it's companion release [as some might call it] 'Admira' (see my review) that it's almost uncanny. Total of twenty-three tracks (again untitled) clocking in at just over an hour. 'Vulcano: Live In Wuppertal 1971' is most a definite ground-breaking recording (for it's time, anyway). Truly, a prime pre-industrial effort - light years before the term "industrial" was even coined as an official genre of music. Again, the line-up (like the previously mentioned 'Admira' disc) here is listed as Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Freudigmann and Wolfgang Seidel. My guess is that maybe Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius had already left Kluster at this point. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong but I thought I read somewhere that after Kluster had disbanded to become Cluster, the late Conrad Schnitzler had owned the Kluster name. Highly recommended.