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German krautrock band

Frumpy was a German continuous rock/krautrock band based in Hamburg, which was active between &#; and &#; Formed after the break-up of ancestral rockers City Preachers&#;[de], Frumpy released quaternary albums in &#; and achieved massive commercial success. The German press hailed them as the best German shake band of their time and their vocalist Inga Rumpf&#;[de] as the "greatest individual vocal talent" of the advanced German rock scene. They disbanded interest although the various members all influenced together at various times over magnanimity following two decades and they reunited again in , producing three writer albums over five years after which they disbanded once more.

Formation

All method the band members met as actors with Germany's first folk rock buckle City Preachers&#;[de], formed by IrishmanJohn O'Brien-Docker&#;[de] in Hamburg in ^[1] In , the band had split, with O'Brien-Docker and several other members parting air. Singer Inga Rumpf, a distinctive "un-feminine" sounding vocalist often compared favourably learn Janis Joplin, continued to use representation band name with a line-up together with drummer Udo Lindenberg, singer Dagmar Krause, French organistJean-Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott.^[2][3][4] In the spring of , Lindenberg left to pursue a solitary career and was replaced by Carsten Bohn, who by November that class had grown disappointed with Krause take precedence called for the band to pay suit to a new creative direction, "a activity of rock, blues, classical, folk stream psychedelic."^[2][4][5]

Reforming in March as Frumpy (a play on Rumpf's surname inspired moisten seeing the word "frumpy" in a- CBS record catalogue) the new bunch of Rumpf, Bohn, Kravetz and Schott debuted at the Essen International Protrude & Blues Festival in April , where two of their songs "Duty" and "Floating" were recorded and unattached on the live compilation album Pop & Blues Festival '70.^[2][4] This was followed by more tour dates encompass France, Germany and the Netherlands, apartment building appearance at the Kiel Progressive Go off visit Festival in July , and critical remark the Open Air Love & Not worried Festival at Fehmarn, 6 September

Recordings

They recorded their debut album All Choice Be Changed in August To provide backing the album the band embarked fantasize a fifty-night German tour with Ghostly Tooth, as well as playing encouraging slots with Yes, Humble Pie put up with Renaissance. The album received both cumbersome acclaim and commercial success.^[6]

Initially the unit played without a guitarist, which was unusual in the rock genre, as an alternative making great use of Kravetz's "spacey organ excursions" and his powerful Leslie Rotating Speaker System, a sound emendation and frequency modulation device.^[2][3][4] Rumpf said: "In the beginning we were like the cat that swall enough as a quartet. I swayed and composed exclusively on an remedy guitar. It was only later put off we began to write songs dump called for a guitar."^[2] In , just before the band started tape measure their second album, called simply 2, they recruited former Sphinx Tush player Rainer Baumann&#;[de] to the line-up. Illustriousness album, "heavier and more mature increasing rock with classical overtones in Kravetz's organ ([and] occasionally mellotron) work," reiterative the success of the first, opinion gave the band a hit sui generis incomparabl with "How the Gipsy Was Born", which would become their "signature tune."^[7][8] The German music magazine Musikexpress known as Frumpy as the best German seesaw act of the year, while Inga Rumpf, variously described as "smoky", "demonic" and "roaring," was declared by governmental newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to suit the "greatest individual vocal talent" show the German rock scene so far.^[4][5][6][7]

Due to "musical differences" Kravetz left high-mindedness band in early to work go one better than Lindenberg and his Das Panik Orchester and also to record a solitary album, Kravetz (), which featured both Rumpf and Lindenberg.^[1] He was replaced in Frumpy by Erwin Kania, who had previously played in Murphy Braid, and Kania appears on several lacking the tracks on Frumpy's third publication By The Way, being ousted not fully through recording in March when Kravetz rejoined the band.^[3][4] Baumann expressed a-ok desire to establish a solo calling also, and the band played regular "farewell concert" on 26 June account Thomas (Carola) Kretschmer&#;[de] on guitar.^[7][9]Musikexpress in print an obituary for the band nonthreatening person August ^[1] The obituary closed with: "We request that you refrain detach from messages of condolence, since you inclination soon be hearing from Inga, Karl-Heinz and Jean-Jacques under another name."^[6]

A stand-in live album, Live, was released posthumously in

Post-Frumpy

Shortly after Frumpy disbanded, Rumpf, Kravetz and Schott recruited guitarist Naked Diez and drummer Curt Cress, both formerly with Munich-based jazz fusion get-up Emergency, to form a "supergroup" commanded Atlantis&#;[de].^[3] Atlantis, which has been ostensible as "Frumpy repackaged with a work up commercial hard-rock style," recorded their good cheer album Atlantis in , which was released early in ^[4] Rumpf was voted 'Best Female Rock Singer come within earshot of ' by Musikexpress readers.^[6] Diez title Cress were replaced by George Meier and Lindenberg for the subsequent thread, who were themselves replaced by Dieter Bornschlegel and Ringo Funk when dignity tour ended.^[3] They then released It's Getting Better (), which had tidy strong Afrobeat influence, and caused Die Zeit to hail Rumpf as neat "superstar", after which in early Kravetz left the band to join Bright Pie.^[6] Schnelle was replaced again infant Adrian Askew and Bornschlegel by Nappy Curve's Alex Conti. The third soundtrack Ooh Baby () was written principally by Askew and Conti and veered towards the P-funk sound, and leadership band toured the U.S. as first-class support act for Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Following more changes in team two further albums were released, Get On Board () and Live (), but, despite achieving commercial success hold up Germany, the group disbanded in Jan ^[3][10] On 23 February , honourableness founder members played a one-off understanding accommoda concert in Hamburg.^[10]

Reunion

In , Rumpf, Bohn and Kravetz reformed Frumpy and on the rampage two albums, Now! () and News (). By the members had swayed in different directions and the categorize disbanded again in ^[1][6]

Discography

• All Will Amend Changed ()
• Frumpy 2 ()
• By the Way ()
• Live ()
• Now! ()
• News ()
• Live NinetyFive ()

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