Selbstportrait
Selbstportrait is the third solo album by German keyboardist Hans-Joachim Roedelius, best known for his work with Cluster, Harmonia, and Aquarello. The title is German for "Self Portrait", a title meant to reflect the gentle, introspective nature of the ambient and new-age music of the album. The original Sky Records release was subtitled "Teil 1 Sanfte Musik", German for "Part 1, Soft Music." "Selbstportrait" was recorded by Roedelius at his home in Forst, in the Weser Uplands of West Germany between various Cluster sessions from 1973 until 1977 on his ReVox A77 reel to reel. The music  actually predates the two previously released solo albums: "Durch Die Wüste" and "Jardin Au Fou". The final mix was completed at Gorilla Studio in Vienna, Austria at the end of April, 1979, with the exception of "Prinzregent" which was edited in Conny's Studio (owned by Conny Plank) in 1976. "Selbstportrait" was originally released by Sky Records in 1979. Phillipe Blache, writing the review for Prog Archives, describes the album, in part: "The music in itself is another exploration in electronic, pre-ambient 'picture' music but really orientated to the most 'mainstream' side of it." "Selbstportrait" and seven of 11  tracks from the follow-up album "Selbstportrait - Vol. II" were reissued as a single CD by Sky Records in 1996 under the title "Selbsportrait I & II". It was reissued in its original form on both LP and CD by the Bureau-B label on December 3, 2010. In 2017, "Fabelwein" was featured in the film War Machine.