Sowiesoso is the fourth studio album by German electronic music band Cluster, released in 1976. It was Cluster's first release for Sky Records. Sowiesoso was recorded in just two days in Forst, Germany in 1976 and mixed at Conny's Studio in Wolperath.
When Sky Records first released the album on CD in the early 1990s, this artwork from the back cover of the LP was used as the front cover. Later CD reissues have restored the original artwork.
Image: Cluster Sowiesoso Cover
Cluster were a German musical duo consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, formed in 1971 and associated with West Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scenes. Born from the earlier Berlin-based group Kluster, they relocated in 1971 into the countryside village of Forst, Lower Saxony, where they built a studio and collaborated with musicians such as Conny Plank, Brian Eno, and Michael Rother; with the latter, they formed the influential side-project Harmonia. After first disbanding in 1981, Cluster reunited several times: from 1989 to 1997, and from 2007 to 2010.
Hans-Joachim Roedelius (left) and Dieter Moebius perform as Cluster in New York, 2008.
The duo lived and recorded near the Weser River, pictured here in 1977.
