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Discovering an album like the eponymous collaboration between the German duo Cluster and the brilliant English manipulator Brian Eno is discovering a new approach to music, something subtly revolutionary. A revolution not shouted from the rooftops but a gentle revolution that has insidiously extended throughout all future music. A concept of sound that finds its sublimation in the fusion of the creators' minds.
The purpose of this music, or rather this musical exploration, is to delve deep into the relationship between the listener and the environment, a sort of esoteric experience yet at the same time immanently deeply connected to our (the listener's) being in the world. It is a reconnection with space through music that delves into the past with modern instrumentation, a kind of junction between primitive European tradition and mechanical sensitivity. Thus, static and slow repetition, modulated reiteration, the use of effects like echo and reverb, and brief allusions to ancestral melodies are means to evoke moods and create vast impressions.
Cluster & Eno is a sort of magical realism in music: the Satie-like minimalism of Mit Simaen, the unsettling and thriller-like percussion of Selange, the proto-dub of Die Bunge, the exotic noise of One, or the crystalline ambient of Fur Luise are nothing but momentary spatial epiphanies recreated through music and through what the listener of music unconsciously decides to retain within themselves, an extremely personal experience.
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