ENO, MOEBIUS & ROEDELIUS: AFTER THE HEAT

This would be the final release of the three recordings that Eno did with CLUSTER and HARMONIA while In Germany with Bowie doing his "Berlin Triliogy". The first release in 1976 was with HARMONIA called "Tracks & Traces" which of course included the two CLUSTER boys Roedelius and Moebius, along with Micheal Rother from NEU!. The final two recording were without Rother, and from what I understand came from the same sessions that included CAN's Holger Czukay adding some bass and hanging out with the keyboard guys.

I prefer the HARMONIA release the most of these three recordings, but of the last two I like the one I'm reviewing now the best. Released in 1978 we get about 41 minutes of music over ten tracks. Ambient is the word, but those three vocal tracks with Eno singing are my favourites along with that third track "Base & Apex". Just more going on with those pieces, plus Czukay plays bass on that fourth song that Eno sings on. Conny Plank is the fifth member you could say adding his incredible studio knowledge and helping in every way possible. Lots of atmosphere on this album along with piano leading the way. Mellow is the word, but in my world this is pretty historic stuff which is why Czukay wanted in on this.

"After The Heat" is far from earth-shaking, but this is a 4 star album in my musical world.