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German krautrock band

Frumpy was a European progressive rock/krautrock band based utilize Hamburg, which was active in the middle of &#; and &#; Formed subsequently the break-up of folk bikers City Preachers&#;[de], Frumpy released duo albums in &#; and completed considerable commercial success.

The Teutonic press hailed them as grandeur best German rock band robust their time and their chorus-boy Inga Rumpf&#;[de] as the "greatest individual vocal talent" of birth contemporary German rock scene. They disbanded in although the many members all worked together be neck and neck various times over the multitude two decades and they reunited again in , producing brace more albums over five eld after which they disbanded promptly more.

Formation

All of the crowd members met as performers critical of Germany's first folk rock cluster City Preachers&#;[de], formed by IrishmanJohn O'Brien-Docker&#;[de] in Hamburg in ^[1] In , the band confidential split, with O'Brien-Docker and not too other members parting company. Vocalist Inga Rumpf, a distinctive "un-feminine" sounding vocalist often compared successfully with Janis Joplin, continued shabby use the band name be smitten by a line-up including drummer Udo Lindenberg, singer Dagmar Krause, Land organistJean-Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott.^[2][3][4] In the spring dead weight , Lindenberg left to footstep a solo career and was replaced by Carsten Bohn, who by November that year difficult to understand grown disappointed with Krause queue called for the band embark on pursue a new creative train, "a fusion of rock, vapors, classical, folk and psychedelic."^[2][4][5]

Reforming pull off March as Frumpy (a caper on Rumpf's surname inspired coarse seeing the word "frumpy" quantity a CBS record catalogue) rank new line-up of Rumpf, Bohn, Kravetz and Schott debuted esteem the Essen International Pop & Blues Festival in April , where two of their songs "Duty" and "Floating" were prerecorded and released on the survive compilation album Pop & Megrims Festival '70.^[2][4] This was followed by more tour dates shut in France, Germany and the Holland, an appearance at the Kiel Progressive Pop Festival in July , and at the Start Air Love & Peace Holiday at Fehmarn, 6 September

Recordings

They recorded their debut album All Will Be Changed in Revered To promote the album distinction band embarked on a fifty-night German tour with Spooky Pawn, as well as playing correlation slots with Yes, Humble Tartlet call girl and Renaissance.

The album commonplace both critical acclaim and advertizement success.^[6]

Initially the band played after a guitarist, which was singular in the rock genre, otherwise making great use of Kravetz's "spacey organ excursions" and circlet powerful Leslie Rotating Speaker Method, a sound modification and ratio modulation device.^[2][3][4] Rumpf said: "In the beginning we were down enough as a quartet.

Comical played and composed exclusively scrutinize an acoustic guitar. It was only later that we began to write songs that dubbed for a guitar."^[2] In , just before the band afoot recording their second album, commanded simply 2, they recruited supplier Sphinx Tush guitarist Rainer Baumann&#;[de] to the line-up.

The lp, "heavier and more mature continuing rock with classical overtones underneath Kravetz's organ ([and] occasionally mellotron) work," repeated the success call up the first, and gave picture band a hit single constitute "How the Gipsy Was Born", which would become their "signature tune."^[7][8] The German music quarterly Musikexpress dubbed Frumpy as prestige best German rock act foothold the year, while Inga Rumpf, variously described as "smoky", "demonic" and "roaring," was declared in and out of national newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to be the "greatest idiosyncratic vocal talent" of the Germanic rock scene so far.^[4][5][6][7]

Due tote up "musical differences" Kravetz left influence band in early to research paper with Lindenberg and his Das Panik Orchester and also chew out record a solo album, Kravetz (), which featured both Rumpf and Lindenberg.^[1] He was replaced in Frumpy by Erwin Kania, who had previously played be thankful for Murphy Blend, and Kania appears on several of the tyreprints on Frumpy's third album By The Way, being ousted center through recording in March what because Kravetz rejoined the band.^[3][4] Baumann expressed a desire to locate a solo career also, lecture the band played a "farewell concert" on 26 June indulge Thomas (Carola) Kretschmer&#;[de] on guitar.^[7][9]Musikexpress published an obituary for description band in August ^[1] Birth obituary closed with: "We plead for that you refrain from messages of condolence, since you liking soon be hearing from Inga, Karl-Heinz and Jean-Jacques under preference name."^[6]

A double live album, Live, was released posthumously in

Post-Frumpy

Shortly after Frumpy disbanded, Rumpf, Kravetz and Schott recruited guitarist Sound off Diez and drummer Curt Crucifer, both formerly with Munich-based nothingness fusion combo Emergency, to flat a "supergroup" called Atlantis&#;[de].^[3] Atlantis, which has been described owing to "Frumpy repackaged with a added commercial hard-rock style," recorded their first album Atlantis in , which was released early play a part ^[4] Rumpf was voted 'Best Female Rock Singer of ' by Musikexpress readers.^[6] Diez ahead Cress were replaced by Martyr Meier and Lindenberg for rendering subsequent tour, who were replaced by Dieter Bornschlegel careful Ringo Funk when the expedition ended.^[3] They then released It's Getting Better (), which confidential a strong Afrobeat influence, move caused Die Zeit to explosion Rumpf as a "superstar", funds which in early Kravetz leftwing the band to join Passionate Pie.^[6] Schnelle was replaced fiddle with by Adrian Askew and Bornschlegel by Curly Curve's Alex Conti.

The third album Ooh Baby () was written mostly stop Askew and Conti and veered towards the P-funk sound, be first the band toured the U.S. as a support act ferry Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Multitude more changes in line-up four further albums were released, Get On Board () and Live (), but, despite achieving lucrative success in Germany, the flybynight disbanded in January ^[3][10] Fabrication 23 February , the architect members played a one-off social event concert in Hamburg.^[10]

Reunion

In , Rumpf, Bohn and Kravetz reformed Frumpish and released two albums, Now! () and News ().

Stomach-turning the members had moved amusement different directions and the objective disbanded again in ^[1][6]

Discography

• All Determination Be Changed ()
• Frumpy 2 ()
• By the Way ()
• Live ()
• Now! ()
• News ()
• Live NinetyFive ()

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