Kluster

There are at least five groups known by the name Kluster, including a pioneering German Krautrock group, a Swedish alternative rock band that was to change its name into Kluster B, a Swedish 'forest trance' project and a Mexican punk rock band. 1. Kluster was a pioneering Krautrock band formed by luminaries Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conrad Schnitzler in 1969. After three albums, Moebius and Roedelius left Schnitzler to pursue their own project under the name Cluster. Schnitzler continued to use the Kluster name for his collaborations with Wolfgang Seidl and Klaus Freudigmann in the early 70s, two albums from this period being released in the 2000s. Schnitzler reprised the Kluster name in 2007 for a project of his featuring American musician Michael Thomas Roe and Japanese musician Mataso Ooyama, releasing four limited edition CDR albums. Schnitzler came under criticism for what many saw as his attempts to leach off the reputation of his ex-bandmates in Cluster through his use of the Kluster name after 1971. The original Kluster was hugely influential to any number of ambient, electronic, or experimental musicians. In total nine albums have been released under the Kluster name: Klopfzeichen (1970), Zwei Osterei (1971), Eruption (1971, live), Vulcano (2008, live, rec. 1971), Admira (2008, rec. 1972), Kluster 2007 (2008), Kluster 2008 (2009), Kluster 2009: Three Voices (2010), Kluster 2010 (2011). 2. Kluster was a Swedish alternative rock band of the 2010s that would slightly alter its name to become Kluster B. 3. Kluster is the Finnish project formed in 2001 featuring accordion dynamo Kimmo Pohjonen and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen.