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▐ Artist...: Cluster
▐ Title....: Curiosum
█ Year.....: 2009 █
█ Genre....: Electronic █
█ Label....: Bureau B █
█ Catalog..: BB38CD █
█ Url......: music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/cluster.html █
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█ Rel.Date.: 2010-01-12 █
█ Tracks...: 07 █
█ Size.....: 49,7 MB █
█ Length...: 36:58 min █
█ █
█ Source...: CDDA █
█ Grabber..: EAC █
█ Encoder..: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new █
█ Quality..: avg. 186kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo █
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█ ## Title Length █
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█ 01 Oh Odessa [03:04] █
█ 02 Proantipro [07:01] █
█ 03 Seltsame Gegend [07:35] █
█ 04 Helle Melange [03:38] █
█ 05 Tristan in Der Bar [02:55] █
█ 06 Charlic [04:28] █
█ 07 Ufer [08:17] █
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█ 36:58 █
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█ Bringing the run of brilliant Cluster reissues to a close, █
█ Bureau B present the duo's 1981 masterpiece 'Curiosum' with █
█ original artwork and new sleevenotes from Asmus Tietchens. █
█ At this time Cluster wouldn't produce another album until █
█ 1990, so this set can be considered as their "swansong to █
█ the past", and a symbiotic return to the freeform █
█ spontaneity of their earliest music, when they still spelt █
█ their name with a K. Also, the sounds within are perhaps █
█ stubbornly unaffected by the noise and ebullience of the █
█ 80's coming from both the UK punk and industrial scene, and █
█ Germany's Neue Deutsch Welle movement, preferring a quiet, █
█ strange and tender form of melancholy. This may also be █
█ attributable to the fact that this was the first time they █
█ had recorded outside of Conny Plank's studio and its almost █
█ unrivalled capabilities, stripping themselves down to a █
█ rudimentary entity, and creating sparse, reflective █
█ environments for their astrally arcing melodies. █
█ 'Proantipro' is like a quasi speed prophecy of the austere █
█ techno minimalism that would come in their wake, and █
█ 'Seltsame Gegend' shuns glossy adornments for avant-leaning █
█ abstraction. 'Helle Melange' is a standout centrepiece, like █
█ the kosmiche vision contracted to a slightly out-of-focus █
█ squint but still able to make out beautiful melodic imagery █
█ in the foreground. Closing the album, and perhaps █
█ symbolically the 70's, 'Ufer' casts off into a starry pool █
█ of white noise, putting a tranquil and touchingly optimistic █
█ finish on this chapter of electronic music history. █
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