ELEKTRISCHE ERUPTION [Original Kluster Poster]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
n.p.: n.p., 1971. Near fine.. Rare original poster by the German electronic Krautrock project started by Dieter Moebius, Conrad Schnitzler, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Striking minimalist poster, likely produced for Kluster's final album ERUPTION (a live recording released in a pressing of just 100 or so copies in 1971), but possibly issued in conjunction with an infamous hours-long concert from January 1970 (one of only a handful the band performed in their brief life) that utilized the same title. In either case, an exceptionally ephemeral item from a band whose blink-and-you-miss-it existence has nevertheless gone on to nearly legendary status and enormous influence. Both Moebius and Schnitzler (who was also an early member of Tangerine Dream) had been students of Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf and later were active in Berlin's incarnation of the Arts Lab movement, but the music they produced with Roedelius - "disorienting urban-industrial and proto-ambient" - was in many ways a reaction against "the utopianism of [...] countercultural idealism." Indeed, Kluster "seemed to be performing the paranoia and violence of the repressive West German political landscape of the early 1970s" (Albiez all). Their only two studio albums (KLOPFZEICHEN, 1970 and ZWEI-OSTEREI, 1971) were issued on Schwann, a small religious label, in tiny pressings. But despite this, they have exerted an outsized impact on not only Krautrock, but just about any industrial, ambient, or electronic music that has followed, and this poster (almost certainly hand-produced by the band itself) - featuring a silkscreened field of solid yet somehow still-evocative color - echoes both the rigor and abstraction of the group's recordings. Moebius and Roedelius carried on after Schnitzler's departure as Cluster, to arguably even greater heights (including a seminal collaboration with Brian Eno), but this document is an elegant and stark remnant of its brief-lived but hugely important predecessor. 24'' x 17''. Original silkscreened poster on yellow paper. Small chip missing from the top edge, else a clean example. Professionally framed.
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- Bookseller
- Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40605
- Title
- ELEKTRISCHE ERUPTION [Original Kluster Poster]
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- n.p.
- Place of Publication
- n.p.
- Date Published
- 1971
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About the Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2004
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.
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