HARMONIA - Musik Von Harmonia - CD - CDGRON149
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Autores: Harmonia, Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius
Editor: Grönland Records (2015)
Formato: CD, remastered
Lançamento: 1974
Géneros: Electronic, Rock, Krautrock, Progressive Electronic, Ambient
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PREÇO E FORNECIMENTO SOB CONSULTA
Few people know that the name ‘Harmonia’ was initially a joke. “In Germany it’s popular to call a choir a ‘Harmonia’ something, like ‘Harmonia Düsseldorf’…we found this signpost in the cellar saying ‘Harmonia Ottenstein’, a place near Forst, we chose that name. That was a joke from the beginning. Hardly anyone gets that joke.”
Life in the rambling, rural environs of Forst was as much about surviving with little money as it was about making music. “It’s a very important part of the game that we were able to live at that place, in that beautiful island of silence and beauty, surrounded by cows and horses and geese and pigs,” says Roedelius. “Going to the forest and cutting wood and doing the gardens, that was part of it. I think if we wouldn‘t have been living there it wouldn‘t have been the same thing at all.”
Indeed, the music of Harmonia is part and parcel of the lush landscape of Forst, and its communal spirit. “I cannot see a house or a road when I look out of the window and over the river — it’s just fields and mountains and green,” says Rother.” Roedelius calls Forst an “island in the midst of reality.”
Harmonia released their debut album, Musik von Harmonia, in 1974. The striking Pop Art cover of a detergent bottle, designed by Moebius, gave the band an instantly iconic and modern look. Each track sounded completely different, from the rhythmic “Watussi“ to the shimmering ambience of “Sehr Kosmisch.” Harmonia recorded and mixed the album themselves, in Forst. “We had three [tape] machines, Revox type, and a very primitive mixer,” says Rother. “The advantage was we could work whenever we wanted and didn‘t have a studio clock ticking away. The record sales, however, were very disappointing, our love for the music was not echoed by the public” says Rother.
