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"Hans-Joachim Roedelius Composer, Poet Writer "


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Member Since1/27/2007
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Some reviews of the music from the CD "Inlandish", the third collaborative work of Roedelius after "Persistence of Memory" and "Lunz" with grammy nominated mastermind Timothy Story

The quiet man of krautrock, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, has been wise in his choice of collaborators. The 73-year-old is a benign minimalist who benefits from being steered away from simple prettiness into stranger, more unsettled waters. In the 1970s, he formed Cluster with Dieter Moebius, and the pair proceeded to work with both Neu!’s Michael Rother (as Harmonia) and Brian Eno. Following 2003’s Lunz, American composer Tim Story is again doing the steering, and with a much bolder hand, shading Roedelius’s neo-classical piano meditations with cello, oboe, and pensive electronics. Intermittent Haiku has the same nostalgic, rain-blurred synth tones as Boards of Canada; Downrivers is underscored by a tachycardiac tick like a malfunctioning clock; Beforst is a luminously textured marvel. This is a record to set along side 1977’s Cluster & Eno, but also Air and Aphex Twin: beautifully eerie, a world unto itself.

- Dorian Luskey, The Guardian 11 January 2008 (4 stars out of 5)

One half of the Krautrock duo Cluster, Hans-Joachim Roedelius first worked with the American composer Tim Story in 1996. Inlandish is their third collaboratin, and the best, being fill of heart-melting melodies and subtle backdrops they describe and "emotionally ambiguous soundscapes". Surprisingly, it’s Story who provides the synth parts and additional arrangements, with Roedelius restricting himself to the limpid piano progressions that are at the heart of these pieces - a division of labour that brings quietly spectacular results in "As It Were", whose calm manner recalls the new-age music of Ludovico Einaudi, and "Trouve", where an oboe adds a quizzical edge to the hushed warmth of the organ undulating gently behind the piano. The "emotionally ambiguous" aspects are represented in "House of Glances", in which the piano arpeggios are lent a little wistful mystery by overdubbed organ and oboe, and "Inlandish", a gorgeous melody dusted with swells of synthesizer. Faultless.

- The Independent, 11 January 2008 (5 stars out of 5)

Pop-CD of the week *****

Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Tim Story

Inlandish Groenland CDGRÖN64

The third collaboration between the krautrock legend-once of Cluster and Harmonia-and the American composer Tim Story features the kind of instrumental music that tends to be called"ambient", for want of a better name, yet this isn’t music that sits there in the background as you get on with your life. This is music that makes you stop and listen. Although Roedelius established his reputation as an electronic-music pioneer, his role here is to play piano while Story weaves a bed of electronic sounds around him. Roedelius spent 10 days on the project, apparently, while Story then devoted five months to making everything fit together. It was worth the effort, as the results can be stunning- as when the piano weaves in and out of the whirring rhythms of Downrivers the wobbly synth on Serpentining or the heroically subtle backing of the title track. ME

Sunday-Times -Review ( 13.1.2008 ) of "Inlandish".

MEDIA RESULTS: ARTIST: Harmonia TITEL: live 1974 Date: 08.11.2007 Presse-Stimmen: "Ein Verdienst dieser Veröffentlichung liegt natürlich in ihrem dokumentarischen Wert, aber sie lebt auch von ihrer erstaunlichen Musikalität, die sogar heute noch unglaublich modern klingt." (Spex 11-12/07) „Und bestimmt hört die Welt wieder hin, wenn jetzt ein historisches Live-Album von Harmonia erscheint: Thom Yorke von Radiohead wird hinhören und Damon Albarn von Blur auch und der Gitarrist von den Red Hot Chili Peppers genauso wie Brian Molko von Placebo. Weil sie alle Fans dieser sehr speziellen Musik sind, die damals den Pop in eine Umlaufbahn Richtung Zukunft schoss.“ (FAZ-Sonntagszeitung, 04.11.2007) „Eben ist auf Herbert Grönemeyers Grönland-Label sogar eine neue Harmonia-Platte erschienen, zwar eine alte Live-Aufnahme von 1974, aber so sensationell gut, dass sie ein neues Licht auf die Gruppe wirft ...“ (Rolling Stone 11/07) „Tatsache ist, dass eine der radikalsten und – von Bowie über Chili Peppers bis Boards Of Canada – einflussreichsten Bands der deutschen Popmusik zurückkommt, deren Geschichte paradigmatisch ist für die Zeit, die oft nachlässig Krautrock-Ära genannt wird.“ (Rolling Stone 11/07)


Hypnagoge Latest Reviews last update: 3/31/08 Tim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Inlandish From the first graceful notes, it is clear that Inlandish is going to be a work of pure, calming beauty. As it moves along, however, what becomes even more clear is that it is an amazing, almost alchemical blend of growing intrigue, perfectly matching Story’s signature electronic twiddle and atmospheric manipulations with Roedelius’ straightforward, melodic piano. The opener, “As It Were,” comes across as a simple duet for piano and cello. At the edges are hints of electronic augmentation but it resides unobtrusively in the background. With the title track, those augmentative elements begin to increase—but slowly and purposefully, wrapping themselves carefully around each new piece. It’s as if Story is saying “Here, let me try...this,” and then having it all work effortlessly. The playfulness, the back-and-forth between artists, continues through each new track. I’m particularly fond of the duo of “Serpentining” and “House of Glances,” where Story makes his sound-sculptures slither, bop, and curl through Roedelius’ work like anxious animals. “Downrivers” features an unusual array of sounds—one bringing to mind a frantically worked pair of scissors—acting as percussion without actually being percussive while a distant voice sings a quiet aria. “Riddled” is the most upbeat track on the disk, intermittently throwing a crisp beat over a tireless piano riff and Story’s urgent cello. It drips with delicious drama. The final track, “Intermittent Haiku,” is contemplative, easing along on a lightly distorted, almost music-box style piano and hushed voices. It ends the disk like a cleansing sigh. Inlandish is quite simply one of the best, most perfectly constructed pieces of work I’ve heard in a while. It demands repeat listens not to discover layers or things missed on earlier passes, but simply for the sheer pleasure of hearing it again. Inlandish is a Hypnagogue Highly Recommended CD. Available from Tim Story’s web site.
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Be a supporting member of the association „More Ohr Less“. Purchase a set of three CDs with ambient Roedelius-music containing piano/instrumental-music and songs along with a 40 page-booklet with information and text/poems in a special cassette, as collectors item.It was designed by famous Austrian painter Christian Ludwig Attersee.

The price of € 150,- allows also free entrance to any event of the festival / symposium “More Ohr Less” that happens every year in summer.
Sounds Likeelectronica,soundscape,tone-art, german-ambient, indeed "Roedeliusmusic"

Record LabelGroenland,Psychonavigation,CaptTrip,Water,Fabrique
Type of LabelIndie








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Curriculum of Hans-Joachim Roedelius


Born 1934 in Berlin, nurse, physiotherapist, masseur, escort of the dying, composer, writer, poet, foto-collage-artist, producer, curator.
Foundermember of the artslab "Zodiak" in Berlin(1968) and groups such as : "Human Being","personare", "Kluster","Cluster", "Harmonia", "Friendly Game", "Aquarello" and "Tempus Transit".

Collaborations/co-productions with artists around the globe such as: Dieter Moebius, Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, Susumu Hirasawa, Tim Story, Alquimia, Georg Taylor, Conni Plank, Stanislaw Michalak, Nicola Alesini, Jurij Novoselic, Conrad Schnitzler, Fabio Capanni, Nikos Arvanitis, Franz Graf, Peter Baumann Boris Schaak, Norbert Eisbrenner, Beatrix Rief, Michael Rother, Thomas Rabitsch, Yuko Matsuzaki, Bernadette Reiter, Morgan Fisher, Claudia Schumann Joachim Bock, Toni Morley, Gini Ball, Martin Wagner, Albin Paulus, David Bickley, Dare Mason, Peter Natterer

Timothy O'Keefe, Dwight Ashley, Diane Timmons, John Rose, Kenji Konishi,Toni Gerber, Patrick Pulsinger, Alex (The Orb) Paterson, Hiroshi Nagashim & wife Christoph Sievernich, Elke Lixfeld, Werner Moebius, Thomas Fehlmann, Ax Genrich, Seiichi Suzuki, Felix Jay, Haeyoung Kim, Richard Heacock, Neill MacColl, Alec Way, John Morissey, Jovanina Pagano, Eric Bonerz, Thomas Johnstone-Grenas, Mani Neumaier, Christa Runge, Clementine Gasser, Jurjen Drenth, Eva Maltrovsky, Laszlo Ropolyi,

Tjitse Letterie, Aarjen Uitenboogard, Jason Lynn, Russell Curry, Broderick Price, Verena Tchirz, Martin Barker, Coen de Neef, Wolfgang Schloegl, Jez Coad, Eric Spitzer-Marlyn, Andrew Heath, Elisabeth Stern, Asmus Tietchens, Dorit Chrysler, Stephan Steiner, Paul Fox, Alexander Czjzek, Bond Bergland, Werner Dafeldecker, Arnd Sebastian, Vesna Kovacevic, Roberto Castello, Alessandra Moretti, Robert Lug, Herman Prigann, Dieter Graf, Peter Grundei, Alexander Binder, Lene Lovic, Les Chapell,

Helmut David, Hermann Hendrich, Christine, Rosa, Julian and Camillo Roedelius, Ronald Vaughn, Maria Hietz, Markus Sovik, Leo Hemetsberger Hermann Rid, Joao de Bruco, Mark Lintern-Harris, Esther Linley, Caroline Carlsen, Peter Rauscher, Guido Marzorati, Enrico Coniglio, Arlo Bigazzi, Kurt Weckel, Jürgen Ramacher, Christian Einfalt, Werner Pieper, Glen Max, William Wilson, Carl & Michael Solway, Michael Weinberg, Greg Gomberg, Frederick Baker, Deborah Shaffer, Gavin Friday, Tom Green, Lua Virtual, Shannon Hancock, Minou Graf, Magdalena Wiesmann, Jean Jacques & Christian Andreani, Colm O'Donnell, Andreas Steirer, and many others.

More than thousand compositions including text, poetry, dance-theatre- filmmusic,

radioplays and fotocollages. Approximately 150 records either soloworks or productions in co-authorship with other composers or tracks on samplers, com- pilations. Uncountable concerts/performances/readings all over Europe and in some of the main cities of Japan and the United States.

Music or musical participations at soundtracks for films/documentaries such as “Witness to war” from director Deborah Shaffer, “the room of the son” ( la stanza del figlio) from director Nanni Moretti, “Stalin the red god” from director Frederick Baker, “Y Tu Mama Tambien” from director Alfonso Cuaron. Together with the Fratelli-Brothers soundtrack for the film “Imagine Imagine” about John Lennon and with Clementine Gasser for the film"Die Motesiczkys" from director Frederick Baker, “FAQ” from Stefan Hafner and Alexander Binder and others.

Participating as composer/musician/actor at " L'Orso e la Luna" from choreografer Caroline Carlsen, at "Teatro e Danza La Fenice"in Venice, "Borges & I", at "Wiener Festwochen" from choreografer Esther Linley, "Utopia of a tired Man"for "Donausfestival","Eurokaz/Zagreb" "Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg"and "Szene Salzburg" ( Esther Linley ).

Oratorium "Des Pudels Kern" for "Eurokaz" Zagreb and together with Jurij Novoselic"Happy Kitchen"for"Biennale-Zagreb" and Jazzfestival "Moving Cultures" Tirana/Albania and MAK / Vienna

Spiritus rector/curator of the symposion/Festival “More Ohr Less” in Lunz in Lower Austria. Honorary president of the Jazzfestival “Moving Cultures” in Tirana / Albania.


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Jul 9 2008 9:17 PM

Halo papa de la musique,hoff dir und deinen Lieben gehts gut und du hast einen schönen Sommer!
sag,spielen Harmonia eigentlch auch in Wien irgendwann?oder habt ihr schon?da jeztzt im Porgy?
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Jul 7 2008 4:02 PM

Thankyou for your friendship. Are there any plans to release the new Harmonia material showcased at recent live events ? It was wonderful. All the best. Mike.
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