Neu, Cluster = Harmonia

["ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>]

Oops, well I guess 10 year old memories fade a bit.  The correct answer to
the Neu question was they were comprised of Germans : Klaus Dinger and
Michael Rother.  The only album I could find in my collection is called
NEU "75" on Brain.  The connection with Cluster (i.e., Moebius and elius)
is that the principals got together and formed a 'Super Group" called
Harmonia in 7  However, as is true with most of the vintage Berlin stuff,
everybodu appears on everybody else's albums which make the distinctions
harder to draw.  Harmonia, it appears, however, was the last of the combined
efforts from the Berlin Electronic types since soon thereafter, Cluster 
reformed (Moebius and Roedelius) and did the Eno stuff.  Michael Hoenig
moved to the USA and started doing other stuff including some colaborations
with Philip (Imention this because it seems that Hoenig was one of the
more freelance Germans and appears on a lot of stuff).

Sorry for any confusion I may have created.  Besides, noty too many people
even give a shit about this stuff.  It was, however, an important influence
on the way I personally respond to modern synthesis and should be given a
listen (possibly while vegetating on some canabinoid cloud).

John
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