Michael Rother
London The Barbican
Neu! architect gets the motorik massive moving.
★ Once the yin to Klaus Dinger’s yang in 1970s experimental German duo Neu!, nowadays Michael Rother is afforded the respect denied him in the group’s turbulent, commercially unsuccessful heyday. But tonight is about more than mere attentiveness to a Krautrock master repolishing the silverware of his back catalogue. There’s a dynamism, a crackle in the room, from the players – including Rother, sometime Neu! collaborator Hans Lampe and Vittoria Maccabruni – and also the audience.