Stunden

two masterminds of electronic music team up to record an album together; electronica pioneer hans-joachim roedelius (cluster, harmonia) and stefan schneider, a member of one of today's leading electronica / post rock acts (to rococo rot) the result is this a wonderful longplayer stunden. 'stunden' is a unique record. it sounds new and unprecedented. this is instrumental music: no one sings or speaks, yet it tells stories from the present, writing them in the wind. in twelve miniatures with titles such as 'liebe', 'das eine' and 'country', hans-joachim roedelius and stefan schneider unfold images that come across poetically, glorifying tranquility. despite the use of synthesizers and amplifiers, they are closer to the texts of adalbert stifter than to the machine music of kraftwerk.