Review
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 four 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.The style of much 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. Two notable exceptions are "Piano and "Ausgang", which are melodic in style. "Piano" concludes with a live rendition on "Manchmal" which originally appeared on the album Grosses Wasser (1979).
Two sections of this album, 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. On August 24, 2010 the album was reissued as a double CD by the American label Important Records. The CD version includes remastered audio and newly created artwork by Dieter Moebius.
Track Listing
1 - "Service" - 32:00
2 - "Kurz" - 4:30
3 - "Piano" - 5:30
4 - "Drums" - 13:30
5 - "Metalle" - 25:15
6 - "Ausgang" - 6:45
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