MICHAEL ROTHER & FRIENDS CELEBRATE NEU! AT MONA FOMA, 25/2/2024
Michael Rother performs this celebration of Neu! with Hans Lampe, Franz Bargmann, and Vittoria Maccabruni. Lampe is the only other original member being one of two drummers on Neu! ’75 , the krautrock group’s final official release. Bargmann is rhythm guitarist to Rother’s lead, and Maccabruni joins in the second half of the set to contribute keyboards and vocals. The late Klaus Dinger, Rother’s original Neu partner and inventor of the duo’s influential motorik beat, is present in image; his hawkish features float in granular spectrality from photos projected behind the band. The setlist is taken from the original trilogy of Neu releases – Neu! , Neu! ‘2 and Neu! ’75 – Deluxe , the second of the two albums released by Harmonia (Rother’s short-lived mid-70s supergroup with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster) and Rother’s solo discography. The songs performed tonight are adequate demonstrations of Rother’s melodic gifts, proceeding in a sedat...