Thirty five years into their musical odyssey, Cluster return with their latest collection of gentle beats, bleeps and beeps. Qua, released on Klangbad / Broken Silence on February 15th is, according to the sleeve notes, ‘like a toy caravan of dark, fast camels, loaded with alien and precious drams’.
Having been unable to track down such a toy caravan of dark fast camels etc, Suitcase Orchestra is unable to verify this claim. We are able to state however, that if you like your electronica a little left of centre, this may well be an album you ought to investigate further. Like the Orb meets Steve Reich. Or like a toy caravan of dark, fast camels, loaded with…oh, let’s not go there again.
Cluster’s Myspace is here.