Sowiesoso

Infobox Album |
Name = Sowiesoso
Type = Album
Artist = Cluster


Released = 1976
Recorded = 1976
Genre = Krautrock Kosmische Musik
Experimental Music
Electronic music
Ambient Music
Length = 37:18
Label = Sky Records
Producer = Cluster & Conrad Plank.
Reviews = | Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3iftxqrgldte link]
Last album = "Zuckerzeit" (1974)
This album = "Soweisoso" (1976)
Next album = "Cluster & Eno" (1977)

"Sowiesoso" is the fourth full-length album by German electronic music outfit Cluster.

"Sowiesoso" was recorded in just two days in Forst, Germany in 1976. The title translates to English as "Always the Same". It was Cluster's first release for legendary Krautrock label Sky Records, a relationship which would last until 1983 including albums with Brian Eno, solo recordings, and three albums by the duo of Moebius and former Cluster member and frequent engineer/producer Conny Plank.

"Sowiesoso" was Cluster's gentlest and most melodic album of electronic music to that point. Brian Eno had worked with Moebius and Roedelius with Harmonia prior to the recording of "Sowiesoso" and worked with Cluster again on two albums in 1977 and 1978 and the influence of the British ambient musician is clearly heard on the softer and more controlled sound of this album. Russ Curry describes the album this way: "...a fully realized marriage of electronic sounds with a pastoral warmth." Julian Cope included "Soweisoso" in his Krautrock Top 50.

The album was first reissued on CD by Sky Records in the mid '90s. It has also been reissued by the American label Gyroscope in 1996, the San Francisco based Water label in 2006 and the Japanese label Captain Trip in 2007.

Track listing

#"Sowiesoso" – 7:17
#"Halwa" – 2:47
#"Dem Wanderer" – 3:47
#"Umleitung" – 3:25
#"Zum Wohl" – 6:50
#"Es War Einmal" – 5:25
#"In Ewigkeit" – 7:10

Personnel

*Dieter Moebius - Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
*Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals

References

* Bush, John [http://wc04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3iftxqrgldte] . Retrieved August 18, 2007.
* Curry, Russ [http://www.thing.de/delektro/www-eng/cluhist.html A Curious History of Cluster] . Retrieved August 18, 2007.
* Ground and Sky [http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=clus-sow] . Retrieved August 18, 2007.
* Freeman, Steven and Freeman, Alan [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/krautrockers.html#c The Crack In The Cosmic Egg] . (Audion Publications, 1996) ISBN 0-9529506-0-X Retrieved September 4, 2007.
* Cope, Julian [http://www.midsuffolk.unisonplus.net/Top%2050.htm#Cluster A Krautrock Top 50] . Retrieved September 4, 2007.