Begegnungen

erman composers Dieter Moebius and Joachim Roedelius, better known as Cluster, joined their longtime friends and musical partners Brian Eno and Conny Plank in 1984 for the four-way collaboration BEGEGNUNGEN. Largely due to Plank's influential productions for Ultravox and other British groups, the synthesizer was much more accepted as a musical instrument in pop music circles by this time, and vast technological advances in the instruments themselves mean that BEGEGNUNGEN sounds much different from Cluster's two mid-'70s collaborations with Eno, CLUSTER AND ENO and AFTER THE HEAT. The tones are warmer and more organic, especially on the dreamy "Nervos". Eno fans should be aware that he co-authored only two songs, adding lyrics and vocals to "The Belldog" and composing the instrumental "Schone HSnde" with Moebius and Roedelius; the other five songs were composed by Moebius, Roedelius, and Plank, separately or in tandem.|