Roedelius @ Berlin Sounds Inside
It took a mountain of chocolate for the UFA film crew in 1938 to persuade little Hans-Joachim to play a sick child alongside Willy Birgel. He didn’t see the point—after all, he wasn’t sick at all. Since then, says the 92-year-old forefather of electronic ambient music, he’s been good at telling tall tales.
His life is straight out of a movie: He deserted from the NVA, served time in Bautzen, worked as a butler for a Berlin industrialist family, later became a hippie in Paris, a physical therapist at the Charité, and a massage therapist at a nudist camp in Corsica. And his career as a musician hadn’t even begun yet. How things unfolded from there, how he came to collaborate with his band Cluster and Brian Eno, what his connection to Kraftwerk is, and how he still makes music today - Roedelius reveals it all in a conversation with Anja Caspary. Listen and watch --> HERE <-- (german only)
