Live in Vienna (Cluster album)

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Live In Vienna

Live album by Cluster & Farnbauer

Released

1980

Recorded

1980

Genre

Krautrock
Kosmische Musik
Experimental Music
Electronic Music

Label

York House Records

Cluster chronology

Grosses Wasser
(1979)

Live In Vienna
(1980)

Curiosum
(1981)

Live In Vienna is the eighth full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster and their first and only album with Joshi Farnbauer. It is the first of three live albums recorded by Cluster.

On June 12, 1980 Cluster performed at the Wiener Festwochen Alternativ with Farnbauer. The performance was recorded and released as a limited edition cassette on the British York House Records (YHR) label. It was reissued in Germany on the Transmitter label of "Grüne Kraft" owner Werner Pieper.^[1] The style of the music is highly experimental and discordant and very reminiscent of Moebius and Rodelius' early work with Conrad Schnitzler in Kluster, albeit with updated electronic instrumentation.

Live In Vienna is the only Cluster release never reissued on CD, though two sections, each between 15 and 16 minutes long, were included as bonus tracks on the Hypnotic CD reissues of the first two Kluster albums, Klopfzeichen and Zwei-Osterei.