Selbstportrait II

by Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Selbstportrait II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1980
  • Label: Sky
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 40:58
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded primarily on a Revox tape machine in his secluded countryside home, 'Selbstportrait II' offers a collection of gentle, pastoral synthesizer vignettes by Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The album is characterized by its intimate, minimalist approach to ambient electronics, prioritizing warmth and melodic simplicity over complex sequencing. It stands as a quietly influential work of introspective German synth music.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, ambient, atmospheric, sorrowful, sprawling, piano, synthesizers, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Signal - I (0:12)
  2. Gewi脽 (4:48)
  3. Aufbruch (3:46)
  4. Sch枚nheitsflecken (3:17)
  5. Alle Jahre wieder (4:36)
  6. 脺bern Flu脽 (3:47)
  7. Tee f眉r die Geisha (5:34)
  8. Kichererbsen (2:31)
  9. Grundlsee (4:31)
  10. Regenwurm (4:02)
  11. Thronfolge (3:40)
  12. Signal - II (0:10)

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