Sowiesoso - Cluster

Sowiesoso (from German: sowieso, lit. 'anyway') is the fourth studio album by German electronic music band Cluster, released in 1976. It was Cluster's first release for Sky Records. Sowiesoso was recorded in just two days in Forst, Germany in 1976 and mixed at Conny's Studio in Wolperath.
Brian Eno had worked with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius with Harmonia prior to the recording of Sowiesoso and worked with Cluster again on two albums in 1977 and 1978. The influence of the British ambient musician is clearly heard on the softer and more controlled sound of Sowiesoso. Reviewer Russ Curry describes the album as "a fully realized marriage of electronic sounds with a pastoral warmth." Kevin Warwick of the Chicago Reader noted that the album's focus on "ambient electronic soundscapes" represented a divergence from the "motorik grooves" explored by Cluster's krautrock contemporaries.

00:00 Sowiesoso
07:20 Halwa
10:12 Dem Wanderer
14:04 Umleitung
17:33 Zum Wohl
24:27 Es War Einmal
29:53 In Ewigkeit