from the LP Musik Von Harmonia, Brain Records, 1974Oh those crazy Germans---I am so fucking thankful for their willingness to embrace electronics and technology long before the rest of us did!! Harmonia was the near-alchemical reaction of Michael Rother from NEU! and the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius, known collectively as the band Cluster; I can’t even imagine what the recording sessions for this album looked like, other than lots of acid. Indeed, hearing this music is like having a revelation, particularly when you consider the early date at which it was released, the electronic squeaks and skronks pulling you into their detached, ambient vortex; this sounds so unlike anything else, you could easily tell someone that it’s a new Boards of Canada bootleg and they’d probably believe you. This song feels like the electricity of sunrise, over some vast and grassy steppe, the awakening of old memories in our genes…
