Cluster News

This reissue of their sixth album is a most welcome sight. Often overlooked in favor of their '70s output , Curiosum remains a curiosity in the Cluster back catalogue.

Michael Karoli of Can and Faust's Uwe Nettelbeck are dead; Kraftwerk are today reduced to founder Ralf HA1 4tter and a crew of minions; but at the respective ages of 75 and 65, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius continue their musical work as Cluster.

When most people clean out their cupboards, they just end up finding old magazines and out-of style clothes, but if you're Harmonia's Michael Rother , you just might find a cassette tape of a one-off summit between Harmonia and ambient mad scientist Brian Eno, circa 1976.

Shining a light on the music world's fringes, the X Avant Festival scores a coup by hosting the first Canadian appearance by a pivotal act in the '70s German rock scene known as Krautrock.

The fourth annual Toronto X Avant New Music festival starts on Wednesday night, taking over The Music Gallery for five consecutive days.

The second collaboration between Eno and the guys from Cluster fails to captivate in the same way as Cluster & Eno from the previous year did.

Living a long life in the spectral borderlands has its rewards. Since you're basically invisible to most of the rest of the world, you're free to test your inspirations and then transform them into art, music or political energy - and do it any way you prefer.

Deeming this meeting of minds a classic is certainly beyond clich at this point, though to some degree the album still does not receive the recognition garnered by other ventures that the collaborators were individually involved in.

Deeming this meeting of minds a classic is certainly beyond clich at this point, though to some degree the album still does not receive the recognition garnered by other ventures that the collaborators were individually involved in.

Trend Hunter has featured an excess of cushions, pillows and comfy stuffies that are unconventional .