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20:00 | Hans Joachim Roedelius (Germany) |
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 From his early work with the pioneering Krautrock band Cluster to his later, more ambient solo recordings, Hans Joachim Roedelius remained one of the most innovative and prolific voices in contemporary electronic music. Born in Berlin in 1934, he drifted through a series of odd jobs before turning to music, later collaborating with conceptual artist Conrad Schnitzler in a series of experimental bands including Plus/Minus, Noises, and the Human Being. In 1968, Roedelius and Schnitzler were among the co-founders of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, a group of avant-garde artists from a variety of creative disciplines that quickly became one of the driving forces of the Berlin underground scene; with Dieter Moebius, they formed Kluster in 1969, performing extended improvisational live dates throughout West Germany. Of all the so-called Krautrock performers who defined German music in the 1970s, including Kraftwerk, Can, Neu! and Faust, Roedelius is perhaps the most underrated and most intriguing. Roedelius estimates he has recorded, either alone or in collaboration, around 80 albums since 1970. If Roedeliusmusik has a governing principle, it is spontaneity. "I want to keep the moment. If I work too hard, mostly I don't like it any more. I just have to take it when it's coming. I'm just looking for the right pieces, like Marcel Duchamp."
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