17 hippies
| 17 hippies | |
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.jpg) The 17 hippies on September 8, 2006 in Salamanca |
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| General information | |
| origin | Berlin , Germany |
| Genre (s) | World music , pop |
| founding | 1995 |
| Website | 17hippies.de |
| Current occupation | |
| Antje Henkel | |
| Daniel Cordes | |
| Christopher Blenkinsop | |
| Daniel Friedrichs | |
Guitar , vocals |
Dirk Trageser |
| Elmar Gutmann | |
clarinet |
Henry Notroff |
| Kerstin Kaernbach | |
Accordion , vocals |
Kiki Sauer |
Banjo , guitar |
Lutz Ulbrich |
| Knut Hagedorn | |
| Uwe Langer | |
accordion |
Volker Rettmann |
17 Hippies is a thirteen- piece Berlin band that combines musical styles from all over the world with rock and pop music on predominantly acoustic instruments .
style
Their music is a mixture of Eastern European melodies and rhythms with French chanson and American folk music . Her repertoire is partly instrumental . The singing is in German , English and French . Occasionally they were referred to as the founders of the “Berlin Style”.
history
1995 to 2000 - The beginnings
In the spring of 1995 Carsten Wegener, Christopher Blenkinsop, Kristin "Kiki" Sauer and Reinhard "Koma" Lüderitz began to play traditional pieces together. Inspired by the encounter with music from Eastern Europe after the fall of the Wall and by traveling as musicians to the USA, they began to collect melodies and spread them to friends. The focus is on the idea of a real book , a collection of easy-to-play music for everyone. One of the first to join was Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich. In autumn 1995, Blenkinsop, Lüderitz and Wegener played a concert in the opening act of a rock band in the Berlin Café Swing . The name 17 Hippies was used for the first time, which according to its own statement has no deeper meaning. Antje Henkel, Elmar Gutmann and Ulrike Lau joined them by the end of 1996 . Alexander Roesler and Jürgen "Meduli" Michelly were always there. When the rehearsal room got too small, the 17 hippies held public rehearsals. In 1997 Henry Notroff and Dirk Trageser joined the group. Various live and rehearsal room recordings were published on the first CD Rock'n'roll 13 . Ania Gilles, Bernhard Kruppke, Frank Schneider and Petra Rosemann can also be heard on these recordings.
In 1998 the group was invited to the SXSW Festival in Austin , Texas . They went to the USA with over 30 musicians and friends and played concerts in Texas and Louisiana . Here also were Jakob Ilja , Harald Grosskopf and Uwe Langer there. In the same year they played several concerts in Paris at the Fête de la Musique .
In 1999 the second CD Wer ist das? , which was recorded live in the Berlin Prater . Both CDs were released and distributed under the band's own label Hipster Records . The French label Buda Musique released a compilation of both CDs in France under the name Berlin Style . Since the end of 1999 Volker "Kruisko" Rettmann has been playing.
2001 to 2005 - The band is formed
In 2001, the band composed the soundtrack to the movie Grill Point by Andreas Dresen in which they occur. For the first time the group went on tour in Germany. They played other concerts in Budapest , Prague , Vienna and again and again in France. The album Sirba was released there , a mixture of pieces from the CD Wer ist das? , the soundtrack to Halbe Staircase and two new compositions, including the title “Marlène”, which was to remain in the playlist of Radio France ( France Inter ) for months in France . Kerstin Kaernbach joined the band.
In 2004 the first studio album Ifni was created . A permanent band of 12 musicians formed during the recording. These include Christopher Blenkinsop, Carsten Wegener, Kristin "Kiki" Sauer, Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich, Antje Henkel, Elmar Gutmann, Ulrike "Rike" Lau, Henry Notroff, Dirk Trageser, Uwe Langer, Volker "Kruisko" Rettmann and Kerstin Kaernbach. During this time, Silke Frau Schmitt Volland, Johannes Kevenhörster and Jens Domberg also played live regularly .
2006 to date - the band on tour
The band is on tour almost non-stop . Daniel Friedrichs (violin) joined the band in 2006. The music for the play Kasimir and Karoline von Ödön von Horváth was written for the Deutsches Theater Berlin. The director was Andreas Dresen, and the entire band also appeared as actors in the play . In spring 2007, the band released their second studio album Heimlich , which was the band's first album to be released in the United States and Canada , where they toured the same year. In December the 17 hippies played at Olympia (Paris) . Further tours in the USA, Europe, Algeria and concerts in the People's Republic of China followed in 2008, as well as an appearance at the Adolf Grimme Prize ceremony. At the end of the year they recorded their third studio album El Dorado , which was released worldwide in January 2009.
In January 2009, Daniel “Danda” Cordes replaced Carsten Wegener on bass at the live concerts. The 17 hippies gave more than 120 concerts in 15 countries this year, including a. at WOMAD in England , at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , in the USA, Canada and again in China. They played for the first time in Israel and Jordan . In October they gave a sold out concert at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. In 2010 they were invited to festivals in Australia and New Zealand , and as in previous years they played numerous concerts all over Europe. Rike Lau left the live band. Her 11th album Phantom Songs reached number 10 in the newcomer charts in Germany. The highlight of their Phantom Songs tour were appearances in Mexico in autumn 2012. In 2013 they published revised and expanded versions of their Realbooks, a collection of their own and collected melodies, and Titus dreams , a music album for children.
In 2014 they released their 13th album with Biester . Each piece was recorded with a different percussionist, including a .: Aly Keita , Harald Großkopf, Max Weissenfeldt and Romain Vincente , who later played in the live band. They give concerts and a. in Hungary, France, Switzerland and Spain.
At the beginning of 2016, for their 20th anniversary, they released the best-of album Anatomy and at the same time Metamorphosis , a collection of musical collaborations with musician friends. Both albums were released together as a double CD.
In November 2018 they released their album Kirschenzeit , alluding to the chanson Le Temps des cerises from the time of the Paris Commune . In July 2019 Knut Hagedorn will follow Romain Vincente as drummer.
Sideline projects / collaborations
Sexy ambient hippies
Since 1997 concerts with DJs and electro musicians have taken place under the name Sexy Ambient Hippies . The concert on August 31, 2002 in the House of World Cultures was recorded and published under the title 17 Hippies play Sexy Ambient Hippies 2003. Carsten Dane and Robert Cummings ( Sampling ) are among those involved .
Hardcore trobadors
Together with the band Les Hurlements d'Léo from Bordeaux , the ensemble recorded six tracks in Berlin in the summer of 2003, which were released as a maxi CD in France under the name Hardcore Trobadors . The climax of this collaboration were concerts in Moscow and in 2004 a joint tour of France.
17 Hippies play guitar
On December 19, 2004, a concert with the guitarists Marc Ribot and Jakob Ilja ( Element of Crime ) was recorded by WDR as part of Funkhaus Europa in Cologne . In 2006 the concert was released on CD under the title 17 Hippies play Guitar .
Metamorphosis
A project of the 17 hippies in the style of a musical silent post . Since 2014 musicians have been invited to edit previously published tracks by the band. You are free to choose the pieces as well as the way they are processed. The band passes on the resulting piece of music to a second artist, who in turn is free to edit the piece further. The titles created in this way are published by the 17 hippies.
Participants of the first Metamorphosis album released in 2016 (sorted by collaboration): Bayou Seco and Andreas Uhlmann , I Mati and Paul Brody , Moe Jaksch and Elyas Khan , The Beez and Johannes Leis , Stoppok and Sören Birke , de Kift and Uzi Feinermann , Jan Schade and Chris Lastelle , John Kennedy and Carsten Dane, Yuriy Gurzhy and Tunji Beier , Uri Kinrot and Blake Worrell , Banda Bardo and Aris Doryono , Dong West and Andreas Albrecht, Les Ogres de Barback and Marc Ribot, Mars Red Sky and prisoners of the Tegel prison .
17 Hippies Realbook
The 17 Hippies Realbook is a sheet music collection of traditional melodies and own pieces from the band's repertoire. The name was based on the Real Book and is intended to enable musicians to easily reproduce melodies and chords. For Realbooks 1 and 2, which have been combined in one volume since 2014 and contain 45 traditional pieces, the band released play-along versions in 2017 (also known as playalong , playback , minus one ). The 17 Hippies Realbooks are published by Tyfoo Musikverlag GmbH .
Publications
Albums (released in Germany)
- Rock'n'roll 13 : 1997 | CD, Rent a Poet
- Texas Radio : 1998 | MC, Rent a Poet
- Who is this? : 1999 | CD, Rent a Poet
- Soundtrack for the film Half Staircase : 2002 | CD, Rent a Poet
- 17 Hippies play Sexy Ambient Hippies : 2003 | CD, Rent a Poet
- Ifni : 2004 | CD, Rent a Poet
- Live in Berlin / The Greatest Show on Earth : 2005/2006 | CD, DVD, Hipster Records
- 17 Hippies play Guitar : 2006 | CD, Hipster Records
- Secretly : 2007 | CD & LP, Hipster Records
- El Dorado : 2009 | CD & LP, Hipster Records
- Phantom Songs : 2011 | CD, Hipster Records
- 17 Hippies for children - Titus dreams : 2013 | CD, Hipster Records
- Beasts : 2014 | CD & LP, Hipster Records
- Anatomy : 2016 | CD, Hipster Records
- Metamorphosis : 2016 | CD, Hipster Records
- Play-Along Realbook I&II : 2017 | mp3 CD, Hipster Records
- Cherry season : 2018 | CD & LP, Hipster Records
Albums (released in France)
- Berlin Style : 1999 | CD, Buda Musique
- Sirba : 2002 | CD, Buda Musique
- Hardcore Trobadors : 2004 | Maxi-CD, Wagram (with Les Hurlements de l'Léo)
- Ifni Ifni : 2004 | CD, Buda Musique
- 17 Hippies chantent en français : 2013 | CD, Buda Musique
17 Hippies Realbook
- Realbook, Volume 1 & 2 - in one volume (3rd, revised edition): 2016 | Tyfoo Musikverlag, Berlin
- Realbook, Volume 3 (2nd, revised edition): 2016 | Tyfoo Musikverlag, Berlin
Other music books
- 17 Hippies for Children : 1999 | Tyfoo Musikverlag, Berlin
- 17 Hippies for piano with Laszlo Moldvai : 2017 | Tyfoo Musikverlag, Berlin
Film and stage music (excerpts)
- Bitch : 2001 | Short film by Randa Chahoud
- Planet Music : 2001 | Arte music film by Kathrin Kramer
- Borane : 2002 | Film by Alexander Berner
- Half staircase : 2002 | Film by Andreas Dresen
- Tiger eyes see better : 2003 | ZDF feature film by Thomas Nennstiel
- 17 Hippies - Live : 2004 | 3sat, concert recording
- Wisps : 2005 | A play for children, with artists from the Circus Cabuwazi
- Casimir and Karoline : 2006 | German Theater in Berlin, director: Andreas Dresen
- 17 Hippies & a Circus : 2008 | TV documentary, director: Ania Bothe
- Whiskey with Vodka : 2009 | Movie, director: Andreas Dresen
- Piano in a Factory : 2010 | Feature film, director: Zhang Meng
- Wayang Bangau : 2011 | A shadow play after Kalif Storch by Herlambang Bayu Aji and Christopher Blenkinsop
Individual evidence
- ↑ During rehearsals we still laugh at each other ( memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), abendzeitung.de from March 2, 2009
- ↑ CD tip: 17 Hippies "El Dorado" , deutsche-welle.de from February 20, 2009
- ^ Sibylle Arndt: Cultural Management in Practice. Master's thesis, FU Berlin, Berlin 2007, p. 31 ff.
- ↑ http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/big-time-rush-erobern-newcomer-charts.html .
- ↑ WDR culture feature We are still dreaming : [1] .
- ↑ The Guardian of May 19, 2011: 17 Hippies: Phantom Songs - Review