Kraftwerk Uncovered – A Future Past

Philip Glass – Music in Changing Parts

This live reworking of Kraftwerk music by J Peter Schwalm features a new film by Sophie Clements and Toby Cornish.

Following their highly successful Brian Eno/Apollo tour, Icebreaker are turning their focus on another contemporary electronic pioneer – Kraftwerk. Drawing deeply on the imagistic and sonic legacy of Kraftwerk’s back catalogue from the little known radical early albums, to iconic material from Autobahn, Computer World and Trans-Europe Express, J Peter Schwalm articulates their journey from experimental krautrock band to international icons.

Sophie Clements and Toby Cornish have produced an accompanying film for this work. Filmed almost entirely in the Ruhrgebeit, the district from which Kraftwerk famously come, the film makes direct reference to Kraftwerk’s heritage, setting the scene, for a picture of Germany at the time of early Kraftwerk, whilst at the same time touching upon themes ever-present in Kraftwerk’s vision – technological progress, and man’s relation to it.

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