''Apropos Cluster'' is a full-length studio album by

Dieter Moebius Dieter Moebius (16 January 1944 – 20 July 2015) was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia. Moebius was studying art at Berlin's Akademie Grafik and ...

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Hans-Joachim Roedelius Hans-Joachim Roedelius (born 26 October 1934) is a German electronic musician and composer, best known as a co-founder of the influential 'kosmische' groups Cluster and Harmonia. He also performed in the ambient jazz trio Aquarello, and relea ...

also known as German electronic music outfit

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. It was also their first album after an eight-year-long hiatus. In 1989

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reunited to the delight of their fans, recording ''Apropos Cluster'' during 1989 and 1990 in Blumau,

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. The album was released on the Curious Music label in 1991. It was "Cluster"'s first U.S. release. ''Apropos Cluster'' is musically and structurally similar to '' Grosses Wasser'' though it lacked the rhythmic tracks of the 1979 release, instead comprising a mixture of gentle, ambient pieces in the four shorter tracks followed by the nearly 22 minute long, more experimental title piece. "Emmental" became the signature track for Cluster. It was included on the 1997 live album '' First Encounter Tour 1996'' and was often performed live by Roedelius at solo concerts during the band's second hiatus. ''Apropos Cluster'' was reissued on the Swirldisc Records label on August 23, 1996.

Track listing

# "Grenzgänger" – 7:24 # "Emmental" – 3:24 # "Gespiegelt" – 6:58 # "Falls" – 2:57 # "Apropos Cluster" – 21:41

Personnel

* Stanislaw Michalik – bass on "Emmental"

References

* Curry, Rus
A Curious History of Cluster
Retrieved August 17, 2007. * Discog

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