MICHAEL ROTHER - GLORIA

Michael Rother / Traumreisen 1987 Germany

Traumreisen is the seventh solo album by German musician Michael Rother. Rother wrote, recorded, produced played the entire album in his own recording studio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumreisen

Michael Rother (born 2 September 1950 in Hamburg) is a German experimental Krautrock musician and composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rother

Official Website:
http://www.michaelrother.de/en/
http://www.myspace.com/michaelrother

Artwork: David Law
http://www.davidlaw.fr/

Album review:

By 1987, Michael Rother's music had come a long way from the chaotic, electronic rock & roll of Neu!, but it is easily identifiable as his nonetheless. Rother created his own brand of ambient and trance musics that were, for lack of any other possible term, spherical in their construction and execution. Rother understood that meditative music that touches the body as well as the mind must indeed begin somewhere and return to some approximation of that same place, even if it is much further down the sonic road. His elliptical synth lines and precise, mantra-like guitar riffs are all about drift and return, in pattern and prosaic elocution. Like all of his recordings since Katzenmusick, Rother plays everything here himself. The disc opens with the seven-minute ambient track "Südseewellen," stitched together with an intricate weave of subtle and warm keyboard lines against a minimal percussion backdrop. The drift is interrupted on "Reiselust," however, as shifting guitars and deep tom-toms careen across the center of a mix that is open and spacious, kissed with keyboard lines at top and bottom. While the entire album feels like a swim in an ornate sonic ocean and the tracks segue together (figuratively, not literally) better than on any of his other recordings, the guitar ballad "Gloria" has to be singled out for praise. Here, as Rother's stinging lines state a slow, deliberate melody, buoyed up by an organ as in a church service, a different set of sonic dynamics comes through, as the guitars become distorted and are layered on top of one another, upping the organ frame in the process. By the track's end it is a transcendent song of freedom and tempered, reverent joy created in the way that only a rock & roll guitarist can: with stinging, pronounced notes and controlled feedback. There are four bonus tracks from 1994 tacked onto the end of the CD, making this is a stellar choice for Rother fans and a great introductory package for those unfamiliar with his solo music. Most notable is 1993's "Trance-Atlantik" for its gradually unfolding theme and found sound textures. (allmusic / Thom Jurek)

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• Michael
• Rother
• Gloria
• German
• Electronic
• Rock
• Ambient
• Guitar
• Music
• Electronica
• Krautrock
• Kosmische-Musik
• Neu
• Harmonia
• Dreamy
• Synth-Pop
• Synthesizer
• Instrumental
• Elektronische
• Musik
• Art-Rock
• David
• Law
• Mannequins
• Schaufensterpuppen
• Fernwärme
• Studio
• Forst
• Traumreisen
• Polydor
• Records
• 1987

[ricomo06]

Super Stück! Stundenlang hören und das tolle Video betrachten. Ist das von ihnen gemacht? Nur Puppen oder auch "echte" Gesichter? Egal. Wunderbare Musik.

[picturemusic75]

@ricomo06 Ja, made in "Picturemusic75" !! Echte Gesichter..!! website: davidlaw fr / Gruß Ferdi

[romeu22ejulieta]

@picturemusic75 OLÁ, FERDI, REALMENTE, ESTA GLÓRIA, NÃO SAI, DO MEU PENSAMENTO, ELA REPRESENTA, MUITO, E MUITO PARA MIM, ISTO, É UMA MÚSICA, LINDÍSSIMA, E, PELA MÃO, DE UM, DOS ALEMÃES, QUE EU, MAIS ADMIRO, UM VERDADEIRO AMIGO, MICHAEL ROTHER, QUE ME DEU, O PRAZER, DESTA LINDA MÚSICA, ESTA MÚSICA, TEM UM SIGNIFICADO, MUITO, MUITO GRANDE PARA MIM, E, O PRINCÍPIO, DE UMA, CURTA, MAS LONGA HISTÓRIA DE AMOR, MUITO, MUITO OBRIGADO, TANTO A * FERDI *, COMO, A MICHAEL ROTHER, VICTOR MANUEL * ROMEU *

[picturemusic75]

@romeu22ejulieta muito obrigado :))

[picturemusic75]

@romeu22ejulieta muito obrigado:))

[picturemusic75]

@romeu22ejulieta muito obrigado:))

[remus977]

A little bit sad, but very beautiful. Thank you Ferdi.

[zrnho]

Magnificent piece of music this is indeed, my good friend,,

stunning images too...perfect video.

million*****stars***&***thumbs up! :) for you!

[baddy53]

ein Traum

[Willburys]

Coldplay hat sich hier von vielen Rother Melodien inspiren lassen

[ddanielamihaela]

great music!

[ricomo06]

@picturemusic75 Tolle Aufnahmen! Danke für die Arbeit des Videos!