Harmonia (band)

Harmonia
Origin	Forst, Germany
Genres	Krautrock, Kosmische Musik, Art rock, Ambient music, Electronic music
Years active	1973–1976 2007–2009
Labels	Brain, Grönland, Water
Associated acts	Neu!, Cluster, Kluster
Website	Michael Rother's Harmonia page Myspace: Roedelius/Cluster/Harmonia
Members	Michael Rother Hans-Joachim Roedelius Dieter Moebius
Past members	Mani Neumeier Brian Eno

Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included the British musician Brian Eno.

As two-thirds of the original group were the entirety of Cluster, the first album, Musik von Harmonia, leaned more towards that band's ambient-tinged rock than Neu!'s Motorik rock. The second album Deluxe had much stronger beats and a more Motorik and arguably more commercial sound. With the addition of Brian Eno for the 1976 recording sessions the third album, Tracks and Traces, was again more ambient in style.

In 1971, the duo of Moebius and Roedelius, also known as Cluster, moved to the rural village of Forst, West Germany. Michael Rother put his project Neu! on hold in early 1973 to form the band Harmonia with Roedelius and Moebius. Together they built their own studio in Forst and recorded two albums under the name Harmonia: Musik von Harmonia in 1974 and Deluxe in 1975, both released on Brain.

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 October 22, 2007 and the San Francisco based Water Records label in the United States on December 11, 2007.

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