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The third track of Flammende Herzen, a delicate arpeggio piece that was also the B-side of the title single.
Michael Rother, from Flammende Herzen (1977)

Rother wrote it, with Liebezeit on drums and Plank at the desk at Conny's Studio between June and September 1976. It was the B-side of the "Flammende Herzen" single in 1977, and a shorter 2:55 edit appears on the 1993 compilation Radio. Freq.org.uk calls it a delicate arpeggio-based piece; a blog says it lacks the textural richness of Neu! and returns to its main melodic line too often. We found no statement from Rother on the track, no chart entry or video, and no covers or samples.

Setlist.fm shows it opening the set at Islington Assembly Hall in London on September 20, 2025; we read only the first of ten pages, so the total count and first and last performance are unknown. We do not know whether our upload is the album version.

On stage

  • 2025-09-20, Islington Assembly Hall, London Opened the set.

Sources

  1. Flammende Herzen, Wikipedia
  2. Flammende Herzen, Strawberry Bricks
  3. Radio (Michael Rother album), Wikipedia
  4. Michael Rother on setlist.fm, setlist.fm