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From being a founding member of Kluster in 1969 who’s eponymous debut pioneered the brick-a-brack approach to electronic music and is still revered today. To working with a long list of impressive collaborators such as Holger Czukay (Can), Conrad Plank (Krautrock producer extraordinaire) and forming Cluster by adding luminaries such as Brian Eno and Michael Rother (NEU!) to the ranks.
However, that is only half the story of a extra ordinary life which has seen him endure the twin trials of a prodigious childhood and enforced membership to the Hitler Youth (‘Hitler went crazy. He wanted us all to be child soldiers in the Hitlerjugend and go off to fight the Russians.’) to being imprisoned and then later to occupy a multitude of roles in life.
Roedelius’ first prodigious steps into creative life began in his childhood, when he found himself thrust into roles as a child actor in six German feature films before the age of ten. The War and its aftermath then presented particularly difficult times to Roedelius’ life, with his family forced to evacuate toward the Russian border in 1943. The post-war atmosphere became less friendly still with a sinister new civil police known as The Stasi marshalling the then shaping East Germany. Uncomfortable and incongruent Roedelius fled this regime, selling fake jewellery and living in a single apartment with refugees for company. Only to be arrested and interrogated as he attempted to cross the border to visit family in 1952.
Given time and freedom, Roedelius found himself in the creative outskirts of the different new society in which he was now immersed. Eventually in the 1960s, following hippy expeditions (at one time he was masseuse to the President of the French Republic. “I used to go in and out of the Elysée Palace barefoot – it was part of my "Hippie Healer" outfit, along with the long hair and sheepskin jacket.”) and various dabblings in almost-jazz, Roedelius set out as a professional composer, indulging in experiments with sound that he described as ‘anarchic musical actionism’.
Hans Joachim Roedelius overall impact on many musical genre is immense and he has oft been credited as one of the ubermeiesters of what became known, affectionately, as Krautrock. He has released over 100 records, encompassing experimental and leftfield departures to more traditional soundtracks and classical compositions and has a loyal fan base of young and old.
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 01. Am Rockzipfel 5.02 02. Durch die Wüste 13.51 03. Johanneslust 5.00 04. Glaubersatz 3.26 05. Mr.Livingstone 5.40 06. Regenmacher 6.39 |
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Christo, Joso (1)
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Plank, Conny (13)
| | Cluster; Czukay, Holger; Dymon, Frankie; Hoelderlin; Lava; Les Vampyrettes; Liliental; Marx, Andy; Moebius & Plank; Os Mundi; Wired; Wuschel (Mike Lewis & Conny Plank)
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Roedelius, Achim (17)
| | Cluster; Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank; Genrich, Ax; Guru Guru; Harmonia; Kluster
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Sky - 1978 - LP
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