Hallogallo 2010 / Michael Rother and Friends perform the music of NEU!
Michael Rother will start performing selected concerts around the world in summer 2010 with his project "Hallogallo 2010". Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will join him. Together they will play music by NEU! as well as some tracks by Harmonia and from Michael Rother´s solo albums.
Michael Rother and Friends Perform the Music of NEU!
with Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan
The legendary German group NEU! released only 3 albums between 1972 and 1975, but these albums had an influence wildly disproportionate to their modest commercial success; praised by and influential to David Bowie, Hawkwind, Iggy Pop, DEVO, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Autechre, Radiohead, U2, Wilco, Primal Scream, and beyond. In May 2010 Gronland Records will release a box including these three LP’s and an incredible batch of bonus material. Also this year will be the first live presentation of this music in more than 35 years.
Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger first came to the public’s attention shredding Hendrix-toned riffs and pounding monotonous, tom-heavy beats in a particularly psychedelic 1971 version of Kraftwerk. The pair left after 6 months to form NEU! and took with them their tandem musical language that would go on to have a far-reaching influence. Dinger’s propulsive beat is often cited as the quintessential motorik drumming, while Rother’s guitar playing made something new from a variety of influences: The timbres were of rock music, but the melodic sense was something else- the scales were bittersweet and very European, accompanied by a Middle-Eastern style open-string drone. The trio of Rother, Dinger, and producer Conny Plank created a cohesive universe where straightforward tones and melodies intermarried with heavily processed elements, where reality could turn itself inside-out or stretch out seemingly forever.
Rother and Dinger parted ways after the third NEU! album. Rother concentrated on his collaboration with Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) as Harmonia, and starting in 1977, released a series of solo records. Dinger began a new project called La Dusseldorf. The pair regrouped in 1985/86 but were never able to complete another album to their mutual satisfaction. In 2008 Klaus Dinger passed away. Regarding the NEU! box set, Rother says: It was my aim to present Klaus Dinger´s musical strengths and visions just as much as my own ideas. All during the emotional process of reworking our album Klaus was on my mind and I contemplated what he would think about my decisions. I was very relieved and moved to hear from his heir Miki Yui that she was pleased with the result presented with the album NEU!´86."
Inspired by revisiting these recordings, Rother has invited two musicians to visit the NEU! universe with him for a series of live performances: Steve Shelley and Aaron Mullan will perform a limited number of concerts this year as ‘Hallogallo 2010’. This group will perform NEU! music and selections from Rother’s work with Harmonia and his solo albums.
Steve Shelley is best known for drumming in Sonic Youth since 1985. He has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, the Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others.
Aaron Mullan is ½ the guitars of Tall Firs. He has collaborated with Chris Corsano and The Matt Zivich Trio, amongst others.
4 LP NEU! Box Set Released May 2010 / neu2010.com / michaelrother.de (created:
17/07/2010 )
Loud And Quiet, UK, interview by Edgar Smith with Michael Rother. Online version published July 05 2010, printed issue May 2010.
WFMU, "Primavera Sound Recap": Review of the concert by "Hallogallo 2010" (Rother/Shelley/Mullan) at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Posted on June 29, 2010.
Dazed&Confused, issue June 2010, "Michael Rother", Text by Tim Burrows.
SPIEGEL Online International: "I Wanted to Be Carried on a Wave Like a Surfer", Interview by Christoph Dallach with Michael Rother, published 08 June 2010
UNCUT Magazine (UK, June): review by John Mulvey of the NEU! vinyl box set
MOJO (UK, June): review of the NEU! vinyl box set
Q Magazine (UK, June): review of the NEU! vinyl box set
FUZZ (Sweden, May): artcile by Michael Dee about the NEU! vinyl box set, including an interview by the author with Michael Rother.
Rolling Stone Online
(Germany, 29 April 2010): "Der Beat darf nicht verloren gehen" - Feature by Joachim Hentschel and video interview with Michael Rother
VISIONS (Germany, Mai): Feature by Sascha Krueger on the history of NEU! with excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother
Rolling Stone (Germany, Mai): Feature on NEU! review of the NEU! vinyl box set
MOJO (UK, Mai): "I Hear A NEU! WORLD", Article on NEU! and Michael Rother´s live project "Hallogallo 2010"
DJ Magazine (UK, Mai): "Krautrock", feature by Claire Hughes with excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother
GROOVE (Germany, Mai/Juni): "Endlose Gerade" - on the NEU! vinyl box set
The Quietus, "From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity" by John Duran, published January 6th, 2010.
TAZ. "Grönland schreibt noch keine schwarzen Zahlen". Feature (in German) by Benjamin Weber on Grönland, Herbert Grönemeyer´s small record label that has released albums of Michael Rother´s group projects NEU!, Harmonia and Harmonia & Eno ´76. Published on 17 Dec 2009.
Style And The Family Tunes, issue 4/4 2009: "Krautrock - Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia - Die Vorgeschichte eines aktuellen Nachlebens". Feature in German and English by Sami Khatib on Michael Rother´s projects und collaborations of the 70s including an interview by the author with Michael Rother und photos from his studio in Forst.
Ink19, "Michael Rother - Harmonia Convergence". Feature on the album "Tracks and Traces" by Harmonia & Eno ´76 plus a long interview by Matthew Moyer with Michael Rother. Published in December 2009.
MOJO Magazine (UK). "Tracks and Traces" by Harmonia & Brian Eno ´76 was selected by Andrew Male for MOJO´s list of "Reissues Of The Year" 2009.
SOUNDS (Germany), "Der Pionier im Spielzeugland", feature on Michael Rother´s music and his projects NEU! and Harmonia (in German) by Chris Wiesner with quotes from an interview. Published on 06 November 2009 in edition No. VII of the magazine "Sounds by Rolling Stone".
The Quietus, "Kosmische Polymath Michael Rother: Neu! Harmonia, Eno, Bowie & Making Peace With Dinger", long interview by Dr. Rock with Michael Rother. Published on 03rd November 2009.
BLURT Online. An exclusive interview (in 2 parts) with Michael Rother by Wilson Neate, published on 17 September 2009.
CLASH Music, "Personality Clash", Harmonia Vs Fujiya and Miyagi. Michael Rother and David Best talk about music and their projects Harmonia and Fujiya and Miyagi.
BLURT Online by Fred Mills about an interview with Michael Rother about NEU!.
Exclaim, long interview by Brock Thiessen with Michael Rother on his current projects and coming releases.
UNCUT Magazine, UK, Oct. 2009: "My Life in Music" with Michael Rother and a review of the album Tracks and Traces by Harmonia & Eno ´76.
MOJO Magazine, The Wire, Record Collector (all UK, Sep. 2009): reviews of the album Tracks and Traces by Harmonia & Eno ´76
RAVE Magazine (Australia), 10th August 2009, interview by Matt Thrower with Michael Rother on his current projects and the compilation "Brand NEU!".
Pioniere aus Duesseldorf, article in German written by Tim Caspar Boehme and published in TAZ on 28th July 2009.
dB Magazine (Australien). Written by Patrick Lang. Article about Michael Rother and the compilation "Brand NEU!" and featuring excerpts from an interview by the author with Michael Rother. Published in dB Magazine, Australia, # 471 of 14th July 2009.
The Quietus. Ben Hewitt writes about the new album "Three Fact Fader" by the Engineers. For their track "Clean Coloured Wire" the British band used a sample of Harmonia´s track "Watussi" from the album "Musik von Harmonia".
Exclaim.ca. Brock Thiessen writes about the rerelease of the album "Tracks and Traces" from the 1976 collaboration of Harmonia with Brian Eno which will be out in September 2009 on Groenland Records.
1LIVE. Article (in German) by Frank Karch about the compilation "Brand NEU!" with excerpts from his interview with Michael Rother.
The Dwarf.com.au. Review of the compilation "Brand NEU!" by Nat Salvo, 26 June 2009.
"The In Kraut", an article on NEU!, written by Nathaniel Cramp with excerpts taken from an interview by the author with Michael Rother and published in NME (New Musical Express U.K., issue of 29 May 2009).
"Auch Oasis ehren NEU! - die Paten aus Deutschland". The article written by Markus Wesselmann (in German) on the compilation "Brand NEU! was published in Der Tagesspiegel on 24 May 2009 and features quotes from an recent interview by the author with Michael Rother.
The Guardian - Music Weekly of 15 May 2009 by Paul MacInnes and Rosie Swash. The podcast features interviews by Rosie Swash with Jarvis Cocker and Michael Rother.
"Hofknicks vor den Krautrock-Königen", an article (in German) on NEU! and the compilation "Brand NEU!", written by Christoph Dallach and published on 15 May 2009 in SPIEGEL Online.
Q Magazine (UK), issue June 2009: "How To Buy: Krautrock". Article and recommendations by Richard Harris.
"Musical tribute to krautrock band NEU!"
, an article by Richard Clayton published on 10 May 2009 in Times Online on behalf of the release of the compilation "Brand NEU!" and featuring excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother. Some of the musicians who feel inspired by NEU! and who have contributed tracks to the album explain their views on NEU!.
The Independent, review on the compilation "Brand NEU!" of 02 May 2009 by Andy Gill.
"Kraut Of This World", published in AU Magazine, Northern Ireland, (issue #56, June 2009) and written by Chris Jones. The article on Krautrock features excerpts from a new interview with Michael Rother. Musicians and bands who feel influenced by NEU! (i.e. Faris Badwan/The Horrors, David Holmes, Benjamin Power/Fuck Buttons and David Best/Fujiya & Miyagi) give comments on the question why the experimental music from Germany of the early 70s still inspires them today.
Michael Rother talks about his projects NEU! and Harmonia in an interview conducted by Michael Kucyk for the first issue of
Mountain Fold Music Magazine, Australia, published in April 2009 and featuring new photos of Michael Rother by Stefan Marx. More information at TwoThousand.
"Krautrock". An eight page long feature on NEU!, Harmonia and other experimental German bands of the early 70s. Written by John Doran and published in Record Collector in February 2009. The article also features parts of an interview by the author with Michael Rother.
Selected reviews on ATP Australia and on Harmonia´s concerts of January 2009 in down under: DiS (Drowned in Sound), by Rebecca Pellman on ATP Australia Rave Magazine, by Andrew Tuttle on Harmonia´s concert in Brisbane Rhythms, by Brian Wise on ATP Mt Buller Gee muses, by Mike Gee on ATP Australia.
For links to more articles and interviews in German on the Michael Rother website please see here. (created:
05/07/2010 )
NEU! merchandise and more on www.neu2010.com
On the new NEU! website www.neu2010.com detailed information on the new vinyl box set as well as tracks by NEU! have been made available. The website also contains a shop area where fans can buy official NEU! merchandising articles, like t-shirts, bags and other selected items. (created:
14/05/2010 )
NEU! vinyl box set released in Europe on 10 May 2010 and on 27 July in the US
A NEU! vinyl box set will be released in a limited edition on Groenland Records in Europe on 10 May 2010. The release in the USA is now scheduled for 27 July. The cd version of the new album NEU! ´86 will be released on 16 August 2010. For more information as well as Michael Rother´s and Miki Yui´s (Klaus Dinger´s heir) comments on the project please see Groenland´s press text further below:
Limited edition NEU! Vinyl Box - Released May 2010 on Groenland Records
Catalogue # LPGRONV - Barcode: 5065001040481
- 4 vinyl LPs & 1 vinyl maxi-single
- Original studio albums NEU!, NEU! 2, NEU! '75 and the for the first time, an official release of NEU! '86
- NEU! '72 (previously unreleased live maxi-single 18 minutes!)
- 36-page picturebook & NEU! stencil
- Free download code for all albums via www.neu2010.com (coming soon!)
- Free NEU! t-shirt (one of three designs)
Gronland are very proud to announce the forthcoming release of this Limited edition NEU! vinyl box set. The NEU! "Vinyl Box" is a complete retrospective of one of the most influential German bands of the seventies. In addition to the three original NEU! studio albums the package contains two additional vinyls, appearing for the first time officially. The album NEU! `86 contains never before released material, revised by Michael Rother as well as the most recent studio recordings of both musicians. "NEU! '72 non-public test" is a stunning and previously unheard live recording of the band in Dusseldorf.
Also included is a thirty-six page book with text about the history and the workings of NEU!, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs by Anton Corbijn and Peter Lindbergh, , and a code to allow the buyer to download the digital version of all the albums on the website www.neu2010.com (coming soon!). A free NEU! T-shirt (one of three different designs) and a stencil of the NEU! logo finish off this bumper release.
Klaus Dinger's and Michael Rother's music has left its mark on generations of musicians and international influences - bands like Sonic Youth, U2, Radiohead and Primal Scream amongst many others, all owe a creative debt to NEU!, not to mention their impact on the electronic music of the last twenty years.
Michael Rother, February 2010.
"I am very happy to know that with the NEU! vinyl box set our fans will for the first time have the opportunity to hear the whole bandwidth of NEU!. My partner Klaus Dinger sadly passed away in 2008 but he has been in our minds all during the work on this box set and his visual ideas for NEU! were our inspiration.
Apart from the three "classic“ NEU! albums of the 70s the box features - as a new release - our fourth studio album called NEU! ´86 and a 12“ maxi single with over 17 exciting minutes which I edited from a very lo-fi and rough recordings from a 1972 rehearsal and which will appeal to the hardcore fans. A vinyl album sized 36-pages picture book with very interesting texts i.e. by Stephen Iliffe and comments about our music as well as photos and materials that until now have never been made available to the public provide the fan with new insights. Anton Corbijn, Peter Lindbergh and other photographers have contributed exclusive photos of NEU! spanning the years 1972 until 2000 and these are complemented by photos and other documents stemming from our personal archives.
Conny Plank´s amazing contributions as engineer and co-producer of the first three NEU! albums are also highlighted in the picture book. His son Stephan Plank provided us with additional photos. We thankfully remember Conny and remind the fans of the unique qualities of this sound magician.
Most of all I´m thrilled about the release of the album NEU! ´86 which Klaus Dinger and I originally recorded in 1985/86, but left unfinished back then and which led to some unfortunate problems between Klaus and myself in the 90s. I now completely reworked the album from original multitrack and master tapes, and unearthed a few yet unknown tracks which are essential for a full understanding of what Klaus and I focussed on for NEU! in the mid 80s. It was my aim to present Klaus Dinger´s musical strengths and visions just as much as my own ideas. The best musical result was to be my only guideline, not the ego. All during the emotional process of reworking our album Klaus was on my mind and I contemplated what he would think about my decisions. I was very relieved and moved to hear from his heir, Miki Yui, who contributed many valuable ideas to the making of the box set, that she was pleased with the result presented with the album NEU! ´86."
Miki Yui, February 2010.
"It was always Klaus´ aim to make NEU! (new) music available for the new generations. It´s been a long and winding road for NEU!, therefore it is so precious and we are happy to present this special NEU! Vinyl Box set. The absence of Klaus is enormous, but we’ve tried to keep the original NEU! visual concept for the design, and pushed it forward in a playful way. For the first time NEU! official merchandise will be made, so everyone can enjoy NEU! visually as well. Hope Klaus will like them too! This NEU! Box set will reveal the myth of NEU! and certainly give deeper insight in NEU! music. Along with the release, I will send messages from Klaus Dinger over Internet on our website, www.la-duesseldorf.de. Enjoy! " (created:
04/05/2010 )
Radio + online - interviews and presentation of the album NEU! ´86
07 May 2010, 7-911pm CET: Radio Eins SOUNDCHECK, presentation of the album NEU! ´86 by Andreas Mueller.
12 May 2010, 11pm-01am: Radio Eins "elektro beats", a 2 hour NEU!- Special by Olaf Zimmermann on the occasion of the release of the vinyl box set with Michael Rother as studio guest. The radio show kann be heard as mp3 Stream at www.radioeins.de and after the airing from the elektro beats website under the link "Interviews'.
In the night of 13 to 14 Mai, starting at 0:05am: NDR Info "Nachtclub". Presentation of the album NEU! ´86 and interview with Michael Rother by Angela Gobelin.
The video interview with Michael Rother by Joachim Hentschel for Rolling Stone (in German):
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29/04/2010 )
NEU! 12" maxi single / Record Store Day
The NEU! 12" maxi single "Crazy"/"Euphoria", two tracks of the forthcoming album NEU! ´86, will be available in a limited edition only on 17 April 2010, the international Record Store Day. Michael Rother is signing copies of the NEU! maxi single at Rough Trade East in London. More information on the NEU! vinyl box set at Rough Trade East here.
*** Last minute news:
Due to the cancellation of all flights to the UK Michael Rother unfortunately cannot come to London on Record Store Day. (created:
16/04/2010 )
First live appearances of Rother/Shelley/Mullan
Michael Rother, Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) will be performing together for the first time at the festivals in
Bad Bonn Kilbi, Switzerland, on May 28 2010, and at Primavera Sound 10, Barcelona, Spain, on May 29 2010.
Some comments (in German) on the festival and the particpation of Rother/Shelley/Mullan:
INTRO (Germany), 78s (Switzerland).
Press info:
Michael Rother/Steve Shelley/Aaron Mullan trio debut in Europe
Michael Rother first came to the public’s attention shredding Hendrix-toned riffs in a particularly psychedelic 1971 version of Kraftwerk. He and drummer Klaus Dinger left after 6 months to form NEU! and took with them their tandem musical language that would go on to have a far-reaching influence. Dinger’s propulsive beat is often cited as the quintissential motorik drumming, while Rother’s guitar playing made something new from a variety of influences: The timbres were of rock music, but the melodic sense was something else- the scales were bittersweet and very European, accompanied by a Middle-Eastern style open-string drone. NEU! released 3 proper albums between 1972 and 1975, and these albums had an influence disproportionate to their commercial success; easily heard in Low-era Bowie, Hawkwind, Stereolab, Radiohead, and beyond.
In 1973 Rother began a collaboration with Cluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius.) The trio became known as Harmonia, and was referred to by Brian Eno as ‘The world’s most important rock band.” Their influence can be heard from Pere Ubu to Portishead. Starting in 1977, Rother released a series of solo records (many with Jaki Liebezeit of Can on drums) which further explored the ideas of ambience, repitition, and harmony and further blurred the distinction between Electronics and Electric Guitar. In 1998 he and Moebius re-started their collaboration, and Harmonia reunited for concerts from 2007-2009. In 2008 Klaus Dinger passed away. Rother is currently finishing work on a NEU! box set for release in May of 2010.
Steve Shelley is best known for having played drums in Sonic Youth since 1985. The tom-tom trance of ‘Schizophrenia’, the ‘Bull in the Heather’ shuffle, the pounding backbeat of ‘100%’, and the driving near-motorik of ‘Teenage Riot’ and ‘Skip Tracer’: all Shelley. In his 25 years in the band Sonic Youth has made 13 “proper” albums and countless EP’s, side projects, instrumental double LP’s, singles, compilation tracks, live film scores, etc. Steve has also recorded or performed with The Fugs, Allen Ginsberg, Arto Lindsay, Loren Mazacane Connors, The High Confessions, Christina Rosenvinge, Richard Hell, Giant Sand, The Matt Zivich Trio, Ron Asheton, Townes Van Zandt, Cat Power, The Raincoats, Brigitte Fontaine, Robert Quine, Enrique Morente and many others.
Since 1990, Aaron Mullan’s playing driven by drone, timbre, and bittersweet melody has been ½ the guitars of Tall Firs. He has also collaborated with Chris Corsano and the Matt Zivich trio, amongst others. He has engineered several albums and hundreds of live shows for Sonic Youth since 2002, and many other records at that band’s studio.
The three musicians gathered for some (so far unreleased) recording sessions in late 2008 which channeled some early 70’s energy. With Rother currently in the NEU! mindset, it seems likely this trio will present some strait-ahead, rush-forward-into-the-sun style jams. As the NEU! song title suggests, this music is Für Immer.
More information coming soon. (created:
12/03/2010 )
Tracks by NEU! and Michael Rother featured on Krautrock cd compilation
On 18 December 2009 the compilation "Krautrock Masters + Echoes" was released on the label Stereo Deluxe. The compilation comprising two cds features the tracks "Seeland" by NEU! and "Katzenmusik 8" by Michael Rother. (created:
18/12/2009 )
German/French tv station Arte features Krautrock
On October 30th, 2009, at 11.15 pm (CET) the Arte tv magazine Tracks will broadcast a feature on the growing interest in German bands of the 70s like i.e. Michael Rother´s projects NEU! and Harmonia. The feature includes interviews with Michael Rother and the Krautrock fans Fujiya & Miyagi, Tortoise and DJ Riton.
Information (in German) by Arte tv on their feature: Krautrock.
(French page). (created:
31/10/2009 )
BBC documentary film "Krautrock - The Rebirth Of Germany"
On 23 October 2009 the BBC will broadcast a documentary film on German music of the early 70s: "Krautrock - The Rebirth Of Germany". For the documentary Ben Whalley and his BBC team filmed and interviewed Michael Rother in his studio in Forst by the river Weser. More information coming soon.
See a clip on NEU! with Michael Rother (due to copyright restrictions the clip is only available in the UK, sorry):
Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany
New series
Friday 23 October
9.00-10.00pm BBC FOUR
This documentary film examines how a radical generation of Krautrockers rebuilt a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Overlooked in their own country, these bands were grouped under the unsympathetic heading of Krautrock by an inquisitive British music press, when Dad's Army and war jokes were the lingua franca of the times. Nearly all of the bands objected to the term, apart from when it helped to shift records.
Today, Krautrock is one of the coolest influences any band aiming at credibility can drop.
Devotees include The Fall, Franz Ferdinand, Radiohead and Kasabian.
In 1968, the world was in the grip of a youthful revolution, and nowhere were the stakes higher than in Germany. Despite a post-war economic boom, the youth of the country felt that nothing had changed for a generation growing up in the aftermath of war. Power was still in the hands of an older generation and Germany's once magnificent artistic culture lay trashed and looted, much of it sullied by Nazi associations. For young people in cities like Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Munich, it was time for something new.
Between 1968 and 1977, bands including Neu!, Faust, Can and Kraftwerk looked beyond Anglo-American pop to create some of the most radical and original sounds ever heard in the country. The experiments of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Cluster would give the world its first taste of electronica.
By the late Seventies, some famous English and American ears took notice as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop decamped to Germany in an attempt to tap into the Zeitgeist. Meanwhile, in a studio overlooking the Berlin Wall, Iggy and Bowie would record Low, Heroes and Lust For Life, taking the sound and feel of Krautrock to the bank and to the world at large. (created:
05/10/2009 )
"Brand NEU!" - Tribute Album featuring a track by Michael Rother
On 25 May 2009 Feraltone, the new label of former Gronland Records MD René Renner, will release a compilation called "Brand NEU!". International artists and bands pay tribute to NEU! and thank Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger for inspiration by contributing tracks. For tracklisting, quotes by the participating artists and more information i.e.: The Quietus and Twistedear.
Michael Rother is participating with the track "Neutronics 98 (A Tribute to Conny Plank)" which is his tribute to the legendary sound engineer and co-producer of the three classic NEU! albums.
Press/reviews:
SPIEGEL Online (in German): "Hofknicks vor den Krautrock-Königen", by Christoph Dallach, 15 May 2009.
The Guardian, Music Weekly by Paul MacInnes and Rosie Swash.
NEU! and Harmonia albums in Australia
The three classic NEU! albums and Harmonia´s latest release "Live 1974" will be available in Australia in January 2009 through Inertia. (created:
24/11/2008 )
2008 - Interviews and features on Michael Rother and his projects „Discovering Krautrock – in Germany“. An article on German music from the late 60s and early 70s written by Dave Graham for Reuters. The article features statements by Michael Rother from an interview in Berlin on 21st August 2008. /// Wonderland Magazine, UK, August 2008: "Unsung Hero" by Ben Cobb. An eight-page feature on NEU! paying tribute to Klaus Dinger and featuring an interview with Michael Rother as well as a previously unpublished photo of NEU! from 2000. ///
Read reviews on the Supersonic festival and Harmonia´s concert at 4Talent (by Stuart Fowkes) and DiS / Drowned in Sound (by Mike Diver).
/// A review on the Pitchfork ATP festival, UK, 11th May 2008 (incl. Harmonia´s concert) Echoes and Dust. /// A review of Harmonia´s concert at Ether 08, London, UK, 18th April 2008:
Kitten Painting. /// "Listening in: Michael Rother of Harmonia, NEU! and Kraftwerk podcast": Interview by John Doran, May 15th 2008, for The Quietus. /// „I always wanted to be different“: (Michael Rother), by Matt Bolton, May 9th, 2008, for The Guardian. /// Stop Smiling Magazine: "Michael Rother Redux", by Andy Beta, April 28th, 2008. /// Popboks: "Michael Rother - Kraftwerk, NEU!, Harmonia". Serbian translation of the interview by Christoph Braun for Groove Magazin, April 05th, 2008. /// The Wire
(UK), April 2008. An interview with Michael Rother by Mike Barnes in the series "Invisible Jukebox". The track "Aroma Club B3" from Michael Rother´s album "Remember [The Great Adventure]" can be downloaded at The Wire - Web Exclusive /// Groove (D), March/April 2008: "Der Blues musste gelöscht werden". Interview with Michael Rother by Christoph Braun. /// Plan B
(UK), February 2008: "Kosmische outriders". Feature by Mark Pilkington on Cluster and Harmonia. /// Mojo (UK), February 2008: "Rock die haus". Review by Andrew Perry of the Harmonia concert at the
Worldtronics festival in Berlin. (created:
01/09/2008 )
Klaus Dinger +21.03.2008
Today, on 2nd April 2008 the sad news has been made public: Klaus Dinger died on 21 March 2008. Together with many friends of his music I will remember Klaus for his creativity as an artist and I will think about him with gratitude for his wonderful contributions to our project NEU!. (For more information please see Gronland Records) (created:
02/04/2008 )
Forum closed due to spam
Unfortunately we had to close the Michael Rother forum on this page due to countless spam posts that kept on coming in. For messages and questions concerning Michael Rother´s music , NEU! and Harmonia please visit www.myspace.com/michaelrother. (created:
22/08/2007 )
New articles on Michael Rother, his projects, friends and partners / print & online
Der Tagesspiegel: "Kraut und Mythen"
- article of 29th March 2007 by Markus Hesselmann (in German) about the label Gronland, NEU! and other German musicians/bands - with excerpts from an interview with Michael Rother ***
NME (New Musical Express) UK, an article written by Hamish MacBain about the first NEU! album was published in NME´s section "Classic Albums" on 17th February 2007 (you can also read the article online at www.groenland.com. *** Selected reviews of the Rother & Moebius UK tour of July 2006: Edinburgh Evening News, by Gary Flockhart, 17 July 2006 / Music Discussion, 15 July 2006, by Periurban / Taxi Magazine (UK), 26 July 2006, by Agent K on the concert in Hebden Bridge, UK, of 14 July 2006. *** TimeOut (London/UK) "Krautrock". An article on German music by Chris Parkin published 18th July 2006 and featuring an interview with Michael Rother. ***
The Guardian (UK) "Let´s do the multi-storey car park", 14th July 2006. Article by Dorian Lynskey featuring an interview with Michael Rother. *** Village Voice (New York City/USA) "Weird, What Is That?", 11th April 2006. Article by D. Shawn Bosler on the band Secret Machines, their new album "Ten Silver Drops" and their collaboration with Michael Rother. ***
An interview with Michael Rother of September 2005 has been published in issue #19 (January 2006) of Anthem Magazine, Los Angeles, USA: "Flaming Hearts / How Michael Rother Changed The Face Of Music From A Farmhouse On The Edge Of Time". On the website you can hear "Aroma Club B3", a track of Michael´s latest album "Remember [The Great Adventure]". ***
Read an interview with Michael Rother of September 2005 by Vincent Romain at KINDAMUZIK.NET (in Dutch). ***
VISIONS (09/2005): Read a review written by Michael Rother on the Jimi Hendrix Experiences´s 1967 album "Are You Experienced". *** Remix Mag (08/2004): an article by D. Strauss on Conny Plank (in English). *** Read an interview with John Frusciante in Austin Chronicle: "John Frusciante´s parallel universe". John talks about his views on music and life, the Chili Peppers, his solo albums and his collaboration with Michael Rother. *** Read an article by Neospheres on Conny Plank, his album productions in the 70s and 80s with bands and musicians such as i.e. Kraftwerk, NEU!,Ultravox, Devo, Cluster, Brian Eno, Harmonia and Michael Rother (the article is in French). *** SPIEGEL online (22 August 2004): an article on John Frusciante: "Ich will mich total hingeben" *** Entertainment News (05 August 2004): a review of the Los Angeles concert of Michael Rother/John Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer (English) *** STERN.de (04.08.2004): an article on the re-issues of Harmonia-, Cluster-, NEU!- and other 70s albums: "Der Krautrock erblüht aufs Neue" - with comments by Michael Rother *** Blond Magazin (08/2004): "48 Hours a Day", an article on John Frusciante. Online version: blondmag.de *** (created:
19/02/2007 )
tv documentary on the origins of German rock music now shown on 3SAT
Those of you who have missed the tv documentary "Kraut und Rueben" when it was first shown in February/March 2006 can now see the rerun on 3SAT. Starting on January 01 2007 3SAT will show all six sequels. In the night of 05/06 January at 02:25am CET 3SAT will broadcast Part 6
"Elektrische Impulse" of "Kraut und Rueben - Ueber die Anfaenge deutscher Rockmusik" featuring an interview with Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius filmed at the festival "Nuits Sonores" in Lyon in May 2005. (created:
01/01/2007 )
More Rother & Moebius live dates for summer/autumn 2006
Live appearances by Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius in Italy in August 2006: 05.08., Urbino, Frequenze Disturbate Festival. Other participants: Afterhours, Arab Strap, Cat Power and many more / 09.08., Catanzaro / 11.08., Castelbuono (Palermo) Ypsigrock Festival. *** On 27 August they are performing at the Kultursommerfest in Schloss Bevern in support of the Kulturstiftung des Landkreises Holzminden. *** On 01 September Rother & Moebius will participate at the Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst. Other participants: Legendary Pink Dots, Asmus Tietchens, Faust and others. See also Faust Pages). *** More information on all events will follow shortly. (created:
31/07/2006 )
Rother & Moebius concert in Dortmund
On 11 June 2006 Michael Rother & Dieter Moebius will appear in concert at the FZW in Dortmund. Special guests will open up for them at 9pm. Rother & Moebius will be on stage at 11pm. For more information please visit FZW. (created:
19/04/2006 )
Televison documentary on German music of the 70s
WDR will broadcast a tv documentary in six parts starting on 02 February 2006 at 00.00am CET covering German rock music of the 70s. Part 6 "Elektrische Impulse" of "Kraut und Rueben - Über die Anfaenge deutscher Rockmusik" will be shown on 16 March at 00.00am CET (i.e. the night of 16 to 17 March) and features an interview with Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius. (created:
26/01/2006 )
Conny Plank feature on German radio
On 11 February 2006 at 23.05pm the German radio station NDR Info will air the feature "Conny Plank - eine Produzentenlegende" by Ecki Stieg. With music from some of the legendary albums produced and co-produced by Conny Plank in the 70s and 80s as well as with interviews (i.e. with Michael Rother) Ecki Stieg pays respect to the sound engineer and producer who passed away in 1987. The feature will also be available live on the internet. More infos on the portrait will follow shortly. (created:
26/01/2006 )
NEU! music included in Quentin Tarantino´s new film
An excerpt of the NEU! track "Super 16" is heard in the movie "Kill Bill" as well as on the soundtrack. (created:
10/09/2003 )
NEU! in Australia
On 22 April 2002 EMI Music released the three NEU! albums in Australia. (created:
01/05/2002 )
NEU! in Japan
The three NEU! albums were released in Japan on 10 April 2002 on P-Vine Records. (created:
01/05/2002 )
NEU! albums re-released
Since May 28, 2001, the 3 ”classical“ NEU! albums are available on cd and lp in Europe (EMI Electrola) and in the USA (Astralwerks). (created:
15/06/2001 )
NEU!-Albums on Grönland
The three "classical" NEU! albums are available on cd and vinyl since May 28, 2001. For more information on NEU! please see the NEU! section on this website or visit Groenland.com (created:
01/06/2001 )
International press on NEU!
Selected interviews with Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, features on NEU! and reviews on the NEU! albums in the international press are to found in:
KEYS/Germany (May 2004) "Electronic Milestones"
ABC.net/Australia (October 2002)
xpressmag/Australien "Over and Kraut" (2002)
Chronic´art: Le Mag/France (2001)
Rockaxis/Spain (2001)
Junkmedia/USA, Sept. 06, 2001 " An Interview with Michael Rother of Neu!"
Brabants Dagblad/NL "Herontdekking van NEU!"
Wiener Zeitung, Austria (Sept. 2001)
SPIN magazine/USA, September 2001
Boston Phoenix.com/USA, "The Old NEU!: Rediscovering the roots of motorik" (August 2001)
The Guardian/UK, August 11, 2001
Der Tagesanzeiger/CH, 03.08.01
Pitchfork Media/USA, July 25, 2001
Phoenix New Times/USA, July 12, 2001
The Wire/UK, July 2001
Rolling Stone/USA, July 2001
Alternative Press/USA, July 2001
The Washington Post/USA, June 3, 2001
SPIN magazine/USA, June 2001
MOJO magazine/UK, June 2001
Magnet magazine/USA, June 2001 #50
Record Collector/UK, June 2001
NME/UK, June 2, 2001
Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 2001
The Wire/UK, June 2001
Baltimore City Paper, May 30-June 05, 2001
St. Louis Riverfront Times, May 30, 2001
CMJ magazine/USA, May/June 2001
The New York Times/USA, May 6, 2001
UNCUT magazine/UK, May 2001
Selected articles/reviews and interviews concerning
NEU! in the German press:
KulturSPIEGEL/Deutschland, July 2001
Der Tagesspiegel, 19.06.01
Rolling Stone/Deutschland, June 2001
DER SPIEGEL/Deutschland, 2001/25
Stern/Deutschland, 2001/22
MusikExpress/Deutschland, May 2001 (created:
04/02/2001 )
Message from Michael Rother
Please note that all the articles mentioned on this website reflect the opinions of their respective authors. The inclusion of these articles here should not be seen as an indication that Michael Rother neccessarily shares the authors´ views or confirms the correctness of the informations published in these articles. (created:
01/02/2001 )
