Eloquence: Complete Works

by Wolfgang Fluer

Overview

With his post-Kraftwerk output, electronic percussionist Wolfgang Fluer embraced the music of his former crew with Yamo, a sound-alike project that released the Mouse on Mars-assisted album Time Pie in 1997. Since then, Fluer's work has been under his own name, including the memoir I Was a Robot, which was published in 2000 and then immediately pulled as Kraftwerk and Fluer went to court over some disputed stories within the book. Then there was the "I Was a Robot" single in 2004, which double-dipped into the Kraftwerk mythos, being a song both about the group and one that sounded like them, and here, on this collection of unreleased solo material dating from 2002-2015, it falls next to "Cover Girl," Fluer's solo sequel to Kraftwerk's single "The Model." In other words, this narrow collection of unreleased demos and obscure singles is so based in the work of the mothership that it is primarily made for fan club members and will hold little appeal for anyone else. Even then, fans must pine for a cuter and quirkier brand of Kraftwerk (Telex?) as the wacky "Best Friend's Birthday" is "freaking out" over a cake burned in the oven plus other First World robot problems. "Moda Makina" reimagines the Computer World album as a Holger Czukay-styled jaunt into ethno-muso jazz, while "On the Beam" replaces Kraftwerk's Tour de France obsession with a love of gymnastics, plus with the bonus remixes, the listener can ask for that message in either Japanese or German, a la "Pocket Calculator." The few times Fluer wanders away from the Man-Machine influence he ventures into the world of pallid pop, which, when combined with the idea that the robots back home must find his work irksome, means he's best when aping his old band (or for the sake of argument, reclaiming his sound). Eloquence is a strange title for an album so goofy and quaint, but the appeal of Fluer being Kraftwerk's breakaway Dennis the Menace is all over the set, so forgive any shortcomings and embrace the lost work of this cheerful, WALL·E-like character. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	09/21/2018
Label:	Cleopatra
UPC:	0889466099618
Rank:	82299

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Wolfgang Fluer   Primary Artist,Vocals
Jack Dangers   Vocals,Featured Artist
Giorgio Li Calzi   Trumpet,Sampling
Maki Nomiya   Featured Artist
Bon Harris   Vocals,Featured Artist
Kate Smith   Vocals
Thomas Gandey   Keyboards
Anni Hogan   Piano,Vocals,Featured Artist
Christian "The Ninjaneer" Delano   Vocals
Enrico Tomasso   Trumpet
Sam Leigh Brown   Vocals
Ramon Amezcua   Vocals,Featured Artist
Nina Deli   Vocals
Lonely Girl   Vocals
Nomiya Maki   Vocals
Miriam Suarez   Vocals
Cindy Gunawan   Vocals
Susanna Lipovac   Vocals
Ramon Amecua   Featured Artist
Tanga   Sampling

Technical Credits

Jack Dangers   Composer
Wolfgang Fluer   Composer
Matt McKenzie   Mixing
Bon Harris   Composer
Nomad   Remix Engineer
Nortec Collective   Composer
Thomas Gandey   Mixing,Arranger,Producer
Anni Hogan   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Christian "The Ninjaneer" Delano   Composer
Pocket Orchestra   Remix Engineer
Bostich + Fussible   Composer
The Shadow Bureau   Composer
Jan M. Iversen   Remix Engineer
Andy McDade   Remix Engineer
Hideaki Matumoto   Remixing
Tadashi Maruyama   Remixing
Masayuki Kawakatsu   Composer
Jeehun Hwang   Composer
Nina Lindlahr   Composer
Christian Reszak   Composer
Stefan Lindlahr   Composer
Markus Luigs   Artwork,Photography
Kiyoshi Hazemoto   Remixing
Rool   Remix Engineer
Sigh Society   Remixing,Remix Engineer
Q-Force   Remix Engineer
Perfect Mocean   Remix Engineer
My Cosmo   Remix Engineer
Musik Soldat   Mixing,Remix Engineer
Moon Raider   Mixing
Massimo Sex D'electro   Remix Engineer
Jerry Kay   Remix Engineer
Imppu   Remix Engineer
Cyborgdrive   Remix Engineer