CLUSTER & BRIAN ENO Cluster & Eno (2009 UK 9-track LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl - Originally released in 1977 and Brian Eno's first collaboration with Cluster, the best of this album's instrumental pieces are too emotionally rich to waste as mere background music, evoking feelings of hesitancy and regret that rescue the music from mere vapid prettiness. Three tracks in particular indicated things that were to come. 'Wehrmut' is an ethereal synth piece with the pace slowed toa tantalizing crawl; 'Steinsame' features a treated guitar playing a slow figure over a dark, almost funereal synth melody; whilst 'Schöne Hände' uses watery synth effects to highlight a shivery rhythm pattern. Other pieces dispense with moody atmospherics altogether. Tracks such as 'Ho Renomo' and 'Selange' consist mainly of pounding rhythm patterns lightly embellished by piano or synthesizer, and 'Die Bunge' sounds like an electronic goldfinch fluttering around a cartoon horse! Sealed picture sleeve).