Tracks And Traces

Description

Tracks and Traces is a collaborative album by German kosmische supergroup Harmonia (featuring Neu! guitarist Michael Rother and Cluster members Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius) and British musician Brian Eno, initially credited to Harmonia 76. Eno joined the group at Harmonia’s studio in Forst, Germany for the September 1976 recording sessions.

Upon hearing Harmonia in the early 1970s, Eno proclaimed them “the most important band in the world.” He eventually joined Harmonia on stage in 1974 at The Fabrik in Hamburg, and promised to join them at their Forst recording studio to record with them. After Harmonia had effectively disbanded, they briefly reunited to work with Eno at Forst in 1976. Eno joined the sessions for eleven days, shortly before traveling to work with David Bowie on his Berlin albums.

In the 1990s, Roedelius retrieved the session tapes from Eno and refashioned them into the 1997 release.

Tracks and Traces was remastered and reissued in 2009 by Grönland Records. The new release featured three additional recordings from the sessions, sourced from Rother’s own tape cassettes, which were unsuitable for release until digital technology made it possible to clean up the cassette recordings. It also featured new artwork. It was credited to Harmonia & Eno ’76. A 12″ of remixes was also released, coupling “Sometimes in Autumn” and “By The Riverside” re-fixed by producers Shackleton and Appleblim/Komonazmuk. In 2010 a full album of remixes was released.