40 years on from the first emergence of Kluster, and having worked under the Cluster moniker from 1971 to 2011, Hans-Joachim Roedelius is back again with the Qluster incarnation of his life’s work. Recorded in collaboration with Onnen Bock, with the assistance of ‘world’ musician, ‘Lauschen’ is a live recording. And while the sound and dynamics of Qluster may differ from the band’s previous forms, it continues the trajectory of exploratory improvisation.
The nine tracks are spacious and meandering, but in using contrasts of near-silence and sound, they create atmosphere and energy without falling into self-indulgence. At times dark and sinister (‘Urania’) at others light and airy (‘Terpsichore’, which inches into Krautrock territory) and others still other-worldly, ‘Lauschen’ is textured, imaginative and musically intuitive.
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