Live in Vienna (Cluster album)
live album
Live in Vienna, 1980 is a live collaborative album by German electronic music outfit Cluster and percussionist Joshi Farnbauer. It is the first of four live albums recorded by Cluster, and their only work with Farnbauer.
The album was released as a limited edition cassette on the British York House Records (YHR) label. It was reissued in Germany on the Transmitter label. In August 2010, the album was reissued as a double CD by the American label Important Records, including remastered audio and new artwork by Dieter Moebius.
Background
On June 12, 1980, Cluster performed at the Wiener Festwochen Alternativ with Farnbauer. The style of much of the music is highly experimental and discordant and very reminiscent of Moebius and Roedelius' early work with Conrad Schnitzler in Kluster, albeit with updated electronic instrumentation. Two notable exceptions are "Piano and "Ausgang", which are melodic in style. "Piano" concludes with a live rendition on "Manchmal" which originally appeared on the album Grosses Wasser (1979).
On the CD reissue, some of the songs were edited down to fit the 80-minute time restraints of the CD. About a minute and a half of audience applause and live stage prep was edited out between "Service" and "Kurz".
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