Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included British ambient music artist Brian Eno.
As two-thirds of the original group were the entirety of Cluster, the first album, Musik Von Harmonia, leaned more towards that band's ambient-tinged rock than Neu's Motorik rock. The second album Deluxe had much stronger be...
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Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included British ambient music artist Brian Eno.
As two-thirds of the original group were the entirety of Cluster, the first album, Musik Von Harmonia, leaned more towards that band's ambient-tinged rock than Neu's Motorik rock. The second album Deluxe had much stronger beats and a more Motorik and arguably more commercial sound. With the addition of Brian Eno for the 1976 recording sessions the third album, Tracks and Traces, was again more ambient in style.
In 1971 the duo of Moebius and Roedelius, also known as Cluster, moved to the rural village of Forst, West Germany. Michael Rother put his project Neu! on hold in early 1973 to form the band Harmonia with Roedelius and Moebius. Together they built their own studio in Forst and recorded two albums under the name Harmonia: Musik Von Harmonia in 1974 and...
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