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1980 live album by Cluster & Farnbauer
Live in Vienna, 1980
Cover of 2010 CD reissue on the Important Records label
Live album by Cluster & Farnbauer
Released1980
Recorded1980
Length1:27:30
LabelYork House Records
Cluster chronology
Grosses Wasser
(1979)
Live in Vienna, 1980
(1980)
Curiosum
(1981)
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AllMusic

Live in Vienna, 1980 is a live collaborative album by German electronic music outfit Cluster and percussionist Joshi Farnbauer. It is the first of four live albums recorded by Cluster, and their only work with Farnbauer.

The album was released as a limited edition cassette on the British York House Records (YHR) label. It was reissued in Germany on the Transmitter label. In August 2010, the album was reissued as a double CD by the American label Important Records, including remastered audio and new artwork by Dieter Moebius.

Background

On June 12, 1980, Cluster performed at the Wiener Festwochen Alternativ with Farnbauer. The style of much of the music is highly experimental and discordant and very reminiscent of Moebius and Roedelius' early work with Conrad Schnitzler in Kluster, albeit with updated electronic instrumentation. Two notable exceptions are "Piano and "Ausgang", which are melodic in style. "Piano" concludes with a live rendition on "Manchmal" which originally appeared on the album Grosses Wasser (1979).

On the CD reissue, some of the songs were edited down to fit the 80-minute time restraints of the CD. About a minute and a half of audience applause and live stage prep was edited out between "Service" and "Kurz". Also, "Drums" was edited down to just over half of its original length to 7:35.

Two excerpts from this album, were included as bonus tracks on the Hypnotic CD reissues of the first two Kluster albums, Klopfzeichen and Zwei-Osterei. A 15:56 long excerpt of "Metalle" beginning about 3:03 was included with "Klopfzeichen". A 15:10 long excerpt of "Service" beginning about 3:01 was included with "Zwei-Osterei"

Track listing

  1. "Service" – 32:44
  2. "Kurz" – 4:30
  3. "Piano" – 5:30
  4. "Drums" – 13:30
  5. "Metalle" – 24:25
  6. "Ausgang" – 7:00

Personnel

Notes

  1. Freeman, Phil. "Live in Vienna, 1980". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
  2. The Gruene Kraft Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine

References

Cluster
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Live albums
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