Гармония: История и Влияние Немецкой Группы

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Musician, writer, and rock historian Julian Cope places both albums in his Krautrock Top 50. The trio also toured and a new recording drawn from this period, Live 1974 was released on the UK based Grönland Records label on 22 October 2007 and the San Francisco based Water Records label in the United States on 11 December 2007. Harmonia made their first live appearance in the UK on 18 April 2008, playing on the opening night of the Ether Festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre, London. In July 2008, the band also headlined the final day of the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. Harmonia further appeared at the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in the UK in May 2008, at the Numusic festival in Stavanger, Norway, at an edition of ATP curated by My Bloody Valentine in New York in September 2008 and at the Australian series of the festival, curated by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in January 2009. In September 2009, an extended version of Tracks and Traces was released by Gronland. The new album features three additional tracks from the Harmonia & Eno ´76 collaboration. Tracks and Traces Remixed, an album composed of remixes followed in 2010. Dieter Moebius died in July 2015. In October 2015, Grönland Records released the 6 disc vinyl boxset Complete Works. The box included all three studio albums, Live 1974 and Documents 1975; a collection of 2 live tracks and 2 early versions of Deluxe LP album tracks. Documents 1975 was released as a separate CD and vinyl LP in March 2016. Documents 1975 had been released as a cassette prior to the Complete Works boxset in September 2015.

According to AllMusic, the work of Harmonia was borne out of "relaxed, improvisational jam sessions that wedded Cluster's exploratory space music with the chugging rhythms and guitar sense of Rother." Uncut named their two studio albums as "among the best Krautrock had to offer, gentler than Can or Faust, but with their shimmering keyboards and mechanical rhythms, every bit as compelling. Pitchfork labeled them "a key krautrock band because they brought together the most familiar strands of the sound and effectively perfected the whole," calling attention to their hybrid of electronic and rock instrumentation, long form structures, and steady rhythms. Harmonia's work would influence the development of ambient music by Eno and albums by David Bowie, as well as other electronic and rock acts. According to Pitchfork, "copies of their records found their way into some famously open eared and influential fans in the UK—Eno and Bowie, among others—and Harmonia’s music has been part of the experimental rock canon ever since." Harmonia continued to influence Brian Eno's work after their collaboration. Their work, according to critic Alex Abramovich, helped to lay the foundation "not only for ambient music but for generations of blues less rock bands, from Wire and New Order to My Bloody Valentine."

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