In the spring of 1973, guitarist Michael Rother looks in on two old acquaintances at their ramshackle farmhouse/ recording studio in Forst. Rother hopes to tour the UK with his current band, Neu!, and he *thinks* Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster might provide just the juice he needs for his live act ...
Now what was it John Lennon said about life and making other plans? The Neu! tour never materialized, and Rother's trip to the country yielded only Krautrock's preeminent supergroup, in the form of HARMONIA.
Harmonia introduced Rother's discipline, structure, and guitar to the Cluster duo's improvisational synth subversion, and boy, oh boy were the results terrific. The clash of work styles meant it couldn't last, but for three years at least, Harmonia were arguably "the world's most important rock band" (h/t B. Eno).
Join us as we tell the Harmonia story, giving specific attention to the band's sparkling 1975 release, Deluxe!
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