Official Website of Michael Rother

Michael Rother

Happy 2021!

Thank you all for your friendship in this past difficult year and your kind remarks about my new album!

I read every single message and really appreciate them.

I wish everyone, especially those who have suffered a loss and are experiencing a troubled time, all the best

for a happy and healthy year 2021, love and peace!

And here, in an echo of better times which will hopefully come again soon, you see me being silly

and working on new music :)

(Photo by Vittoria Maccabruni)

(created: 31/12/2020 )

Harmonia´s boxset 'Complete Works' is out now on CD

Harmonia´s 'Complete Works' which were originally released on vinyl in 2015 are now out

on Grönland Records as a 5-CD boxset.

The boxset contains the albums 'Musik von Harmonia', 'Deluxe', 'Live 1974', 'Dokuments 1975'

and the album 'Tracks and Traces' by Harmonia & Eno ´76 along with a Harmonia concert poster

(created by Dieter Moebius in 1975) and a 36-page booklet.

For more information on the contents of the boxset please see further below and visit

the online shop of Groenland Records.

(created: 11/12/2020 )

Dreaming out on CD

Groenland Records has released my new album Dreaming as an individual CD

on 20 November 2020.

01 Dreaming / 02 Bitter Tang / 03 Fierce Wind Blowing / 04 Wopp-Wopp /

05 Hey-Hey / 06 Lovely Mess / 07 Out In The Rain / 08 Gravitas / 09 Quiet Dancing

The credits are identical to those of the LP version. Please see the details further below.

The CD is also available at the Groenland Online Shop.

Check out the new video to the title track Dreaming.

(created: 20/11/2020 )

Harmonia´s CD-Boxset 'Complete Works' out on 11 December 2020

Groenland Records is releasing a CD version of Harmonia´s 'Complete Works' boxset which was

originally released on vinyl in 2015 on 11 December 2020.

The boxset contains the albums 'Musik von Harmonia', 'Deluxe', 'Live 1974', 'Dokuments 1975'

and the album 'Tracks and Traces' by Harmonia & Eno ´76 along with a concert poster from 1975

and a 36-page booklet.

See a short 8mm film of us (Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Dieter Moebius/Michael Rother) playing live

in Forst in 1974.

For more information and to pre-order the boxset visit the online shop of Groenland Records.

(created: 11/11/2020 )

New Michael Rother album "Dreaming" and 7-CD boxset "Solo 2"

I´m very happy to announce the release of my new album Dreaming and the 7-CD boxset "Michael Rother - Solo 2" with Groenland Records today, on September 4th 2020.

The CD-boxset is available in a limited edition and features my original albums Lust, Süssherz und Tiefenschärfe, Traumreisen, Esperanza, Remember [The Great Adventure] and Dreaming, as well as the CD Bonus Tracks, liner notes by Tom Pinnock and a text by Karl Bartos.

The new album Dreaming is also available separately on vinyl.

More infos on Groenland Records:

- 7-CD boxset "Michael Rother - Solo 2"

- new Michael Rother album "Dreaming"

(created: 04/09/2020 )

The vinyl LP version of my new album Dreaming

A: 01 Dreaming / 02 Bitter Tang / 03 Fierce Wind Blowing / 04 Hey-Hey

B: 01 Wopp-Wopp / 02 Lovely Mess / 03 Out In The Rain / 04 Gravitas / 05 Quiet Dancing

Music written, performed and produced by Michael Rother.

Recorded and mixed at Studio B3 Hamburg and Katzenmusik Studio Forst, 1995-2020.

Featuring:

Sophie Joiner - vocals on LP tracks A1, 2, 3, 4, B2, 3, 5.

Thomas Beckmann - co-mixing & additional electro beats.

Available at Groenland Record´s online shop.

(updated: 11/12/2020 )

Michael Rother and his music in the media - update

Lost and Sound - My interview with Paul Hanford for his podcast

Rockaxis.com - Los mejores discos del 2020: vanguardia en constante expansión - by Héctor Aravena A.

OPINIÓN, La Paz, Bolivia - Los 20 mejores discos de 2020 - by Marcelo Sandoval

Off The Tracks - review of my album Dreaming by Simon Sweetman

The New European - An interesting article about Conny Plank by Charlie Connelly

YouTube.com - Kraftwerk in the lineup Florian Schneider, Klaus Dinger and myself live on German tv in 1971

The Vinyl District.com - Graded on a Curve: The Best of 2020’s Box Sets

The Guardian - David Bowie and Iggy Pop in Berlin, and the new compilation 'Café Exil' featuring my track 'Feuerland'

DE24 news - David Bowie and his Berlin Years - Heroic Times - the new compilation 'Café Exil'

Der Tagesspiegel - Heroische Zeiten - Artikel über David Bowie und die Kompilation "Café Exil" - von Rüdiger Schaper

Echoes.org - Best of Echoes 2020 - The Top 30 Albums of the Year

Lufthansa Magazine - The Unknown Legend

Gimmiezine.com - interview with Bianca Valentino for Gimmiezine (Australia)

Cinesoundz.de - review of my album Dreaming

Pastemagazine.com - review of my album Dreaming - by Robert Ham

Freakoutmagazine.it - review of Harmonia´s Complete Works boxset - by Luigi Ferrara (in Italian)

BBC Sounds - Two hours of recovery music including my track Bitter Tang curated by Iggy Pop in 'The Morning After Mix'

Redefinemag.net - review of Harmonia´s Complete Works boxset (from 2015)

Telerama.fr - Les Objets Du Moment - short review of my album Dreaming - by Laurent Rigoulet

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ.net - Ein faszinierendes Experiment - review of my album Dreaming - by Philipp Krohn

MusicTech.net - Neu!´s Michael Rother on forgetting his heroes and finding inspiration during lockdown - by Andy Price

Rockaxis.com - review of my album Dreaming - by Héctor Aravena A.

Rockaxis.com - Michael Rother solista y Neu! en Rebelión Sónica 30

Les Oreilles Curieuses.com - review of Dreaming (in French)

MINT Magazine Nr. 39 - The soundtrack of my life: Michael Rother on Cream´s album Disraeli Gears

Echoes.org - German Progressive Guitar Icon Goes Dreaming - by John Diliberto

Der Tagesspiegel - Zwischen Schlaf und Wirklichkeit - review by Christian Schröder

Wiener Zeitung.at - Mchael Rother Solo II

Der Tagesspiegel - Die Pop-Alben der Woche im Soundcheck

Electricity.co.uk - a review of the album Dreaming - by Chi Ming Lai

fms-mag.com - Soul In Isolation: Michael Rother’s Dreaming Comes Together During Lockdown - by Alex Maiolo

Berliner-Zeitung.de - Der Klangpionier Michael Rother wird 70 - by Werner Herpell/dpa

tidal.com - The Endless Horizon: A Conversation With Michael Rother - by Gabriel Szatan

clashmusic.com - Fortunes Of Krautrock: An Interview With Michael Rother - by Callum Bains

Zeit Magazin (Traum) - "Meine Freude an der Musik wurde nicht immer vom Publikum geteilt" - by Christoph Dallach

VISIONS.de - Premiere: Michael Rother (Neu!) zeigt Video zu "Bitter Tang" - by Gerrit Köppl

echoes.org - Michael Rother's Pandemic Dreams in new video for "Bitter Tang." - by Jeff Towne

Aquarium Drunkard - Transmissions :: Michael Rother - by Jason P. Woodbury

self-titledmag.com - „Michael Rother Discusses His New Solo Album and Box Set“ - by Andrew Parks

popmatters.com - „Neu!'s Michael Rother Talks About Experimentation and Chance“ - by Callum Bains

fazemag.de - Michael Rother wird 70 – neues Album und zweiter Teil seiner Klassiker-Reihe

(updated: 21/01/2021 )

Past events

World premiere of my new album on BBC Radio 6Music

On August 21st 2020, Iggy Pop will present my new album Dreaming in his show Iggy Confidential

in a radio exclusive at BBC Radio 6Music .

(created: 03/08/2020 )

Concert in Austria

Michael Rother is coming to Austria on 08 March 2020 to perform at the Elevate Festival in Graz.

Hans Lampe (drums) and Franz Bargmann (guitar) will join him. Also on the bill for the evening at Orpheum

Graz are Gudrun Gut and Conny Frischauf. More infos and tickets are available here.

(created: 21/12/2019 )

Concert in Italy

Michael Rother will come to Italy on December 26th 2019 for a live performance at Dancity Festival. Hans Lampe (La Duesseldorf/drums) and Franz Bargmann (guitar) accompany Rother in Foligno.

(created: 07/11/2019 )

Michael Rother in Cologne / Jaki Liebezeit

A Book Launch Party of Jono Podmore´s book "Jaki Liebezeit - Life, Theory and Practise of a Master Drummer" will be held @ Stadtgarten, Cologne, on 08 November 2019. Michael Rother and other musicians (Drums Off Chaos, Jochen Irmler/Faust, Dominik von Senger/Phantom Band - and more tbc) are participating with a jam. There will be readings from the book, and Andrew Weatherall will present a DJ-set of music featuring Jaki Liebezeit.

(created: 30/10/2019 )