Krautrock? German Jazz-Rock by Kraan

Flyer as always by "Snoid Studios"

I remember that day when I was working as a roadie for the Unikult (student association at the university saarbrücken, section "culture"). The equipment was on stage and installed, so I left the room and met outside the fine ladies on the left, doro & oranna, handing my first space cookie to me - so when the show finally began I (the guy on top in the middle) was heavily hallucinating and kicked into space ...

The first record I'd like to present "Alto" stayed as one of my personal favourites - I always loved the female voice, remembering her in her leather boots as a bit of a g*dess. There's no CD release of it so I kept the tape of the LP I made some days later as a little treasure until I finally found a rip on the net.

Alto (1976)

01 Beautiful Life
02 Remember The World
03 Winter 75
04 Communication
05 Walk On
06 Diftin
07 Baby
08 She's Gone
09 Fee Forever
11 Saxomania
12 When Diamonds Getz Crazy

@Alt@

Johannes "Alto" Pappert was member of one of the finest german bands those days "Kraan". Even they're often are labeled "Krautrock" their music was more Jazz-Rock then Krautrock like ie. Can, Faust, Neu! or Guru Guru to name a few.

1975-07-13 Goethe Freilichtbuehne, Porta Westfalica, West Germany

01 Noch kein Titel
02 Holiday am Marterhorn
03 unknown
04 Andy Nogger Gutter King
05 Kraan Arabia
06 unknown
07 Luftpost
08 Sarah's Ritt durch Porta Westphalica

@Kra@

Kraan now

and then

What made (to me) Kraan so enjoyable was their bass-player, Helmut Hattler, who went solo with "Bassball" and later "Tab Two"

1977 Bassball

 01 Sunday Walk
02 Wenn Die Kraaniche Zieh'n
03 Penguins On Broadway
04 Bassball
05 How And Why
06 My U.S. Aunt
07 Mutabor
08 Toujours Too Sure
09 Kopf Kino (bonus)
10 Paranorm (bonus)

Joey Albrecht: Guitar
Ingo Bischof: Keyboards
Gerd Dudek: Saxophone
Jan Fride: Drums
Andy Goldner: Vocals
Hellmut Hattler: Bass, Primary Artist, Vocals
Elmer Louis: Percussion
Christoph Noppeney: Viola
Roland Schaeffer: Saxophone
Truc Sserc: Drums
Peter Wolfbrandt: Guitar 

@Hat@

The next project Hattler started was the funky Tab Two  

1997 Absolut Live (German TV)

01 Let It Flow
02
03 No Flagman Ahead.MP3
04 Whatchagonnado
05 Get Rid
06 Belle Affair

@Tab@

Another side-project, Lilienthal, assembled some real krautrock heroes

1978 Liliental

 01 Stresemannstrasse
02 Adel
03 Wattwurm
04 Vielharmonie
05 Gebremster Schaum
06 Nachsaison

Dieter Moebius - ARP synthesizer, guitar, percussion, producer
Conny Plank - ARP synthesizer, guitar, vocals, producer
Asmus Tietchens - Moog synthesizer, piano
Okko Bekker - ARP synthesizer, keyboards, percussion, vocals, guitar
Johannes Pappert - alto saxophone, flute, drums, bass
Hellmut Hattler - bass

@Lil@

Hope you enjoyed the ride ;)

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