| New York Times |
| | "serenity without the sugar of New Age" ( in re a Cluster-Concert in the Knitting Factory )
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| Audion |
| | "certainly amongst the most varied an intuitive talents, Roedelius can still surprise and come up with amazingly innovative music"
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| The Wire |
| | "Winner of the Month" with "Theaterworks" (some years ago )
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| The Wire |
| | "one of the hundred records that set the world on fire"( about "Cluster 71")
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| L.A.Weekly |
| | " the performance, a religious experience for many, caused the tranced-out patrons collapsed on the floor in heaps of ecstasy to rise en masse, paying the highest possible tribute : a sitting ovation"
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| Brian Eno |
| | " by a river, between east and west, Cluster imagined a new world" |
| | "Hans-Joachim Roedelius is one of the true originals of modern music. His delicate and whistful compositions seem to come from some long and secret musical tradition- like the meditations of Sufi poets, or the haikus of Zen monks. One senses that under their calm and unruffled surfaces there are complex and deep currents"
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| The Edge ( U2 ) |
| | "a beautiful trainride of a record" (on "Drive")
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| CD-Compact Madrid |
| | " ... si un nombre brilla con intensidad propria en el firmamento de la musica vanguardia europea, este es el Roedelius..."
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| David Bowie |
| | "...I had absolutely no doubts about where the future of music was going and for me it was coming from Germany at that time.." ( in re Kraftwerk, Cluster & Harmonia / Mojo-Magazin 1998 )
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| Alex Paterson/The Orb |
| | ".. Beautiful anyhow...." ( in re "Drive" )
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| Factsheet Five |
| | ".. .Roedelius has been making innovative music for something like 25 years now and his work is as fresh an enjoyable as ever…"
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| Lene Lovic |
| | "…it had a real inner strength, like the joy that comes from an understanding of great sorrow..." ( on "Jardin au Fou" )
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| Julian Cope |
| | "…there is a timelessness in this music that releases it from restrictions such as bars and beats per minute..."
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| Dag Erik Asbjornsen |
| | "this is romantic music unlike any before it. A lesson how to keep experimental music simple and harmonious"
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| Stephen Iliffe |
| | "placing him into a musical category is like using a hammer and nail to fix a droplet of water…"
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| 64beats |
| | "Put down your crap indie music for a second and listen to this.This, my friends is a gloriously affecting piece of modern European classical music. There´s not much going on here (although to call "Lunz" minimalism doesn´t do it justice); just haunting piano melodies,fragments of cello and the occasional shard of electronics piercing the alpine ambience. It`s a landscape full of the perfectly contrasting, at turns cold and glacial yet warm and fiery, sinister yet cajoling unsettling whilst comforting. Inspired by nature ( quite literally the title refers to a secluded lake in the Austrian alpes ), "Lunz" sounds both
clean and cleansing, and as pure as
Satie, Nyman or Debussy. You´ll be
hard pressed to hear something as
beautiful and evocative all year." MS
Released : 18th August on Gronland
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