Era (band)

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Aera was a German jazz rock band that existed from 1972 to 1982. In 1978 the group won first prize in the jazz category at the German Phono Academy's young talent competition .

history

The band was formed in 1972 around the guitarist of the group Your Children , Muck Groh . Other early members were Klaus Kreuzeder (saxophone, flute), Dieter Bauer (bass) and Wolfgang Teske (drums). The first album Aera humanum est was recorded in this formation in 1975 , with Peter Malinowski playing the bass on Alois' Flötending . The album was exclusively instrumental.

On the second album Hand und Fuß from 1976 only Groh (guitar and vocals) and Kreuzeder were there, as well as Malinowski, who replaced Bauer on bass. Lucky Schmidt sat on the drums, Christoph Krieger played the violin. One piece was supplemented by “Onkel Latzi” (Ladislaus Wolpert, baritone saxophone and oboe).

On the third album Türkis (1979) only Kreuzeder was left of the original formation, as well as Groh as a guest on a piece. The other musicians were Helmut Meier-Limberg, Lutz Oldemeier, Freddy Setz, Matz Steinke, Achim Giseler and Locko Richter. During this time the band played with three drummers.

On the 1980 album Live , Groh is noted as a sound engineer . Band members were Roman Bunka (guitar, vocals), Kreuzeder, Meier-Limberg, Oldemeier, Setz and Richter.

The last album was Akataki in 1982 with Kreuzeder, Gieseler, Meier-Limberg and others.

Members of the group lived together in a commune in the Franconian countryside, initially in Mechelwind in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district , and later in Sulzheim near Grafenrheinfeld .

From 1978 Groh pursued a solo project as "Muck Grohbian". Members of Aera were involved in the albums Muckefuck and Grotesk . In 2006 he created the Neue Aera , in which Christoph Krieger is involved.

The piece of music Alois' Flötending from the album Aera humanum est was used by Bayerischer Rundfunk as the signature melody of a series.

Discography

  • 1975: Aera humanum est
  • 1976: hand and foot
  • 1979: turquoise
  • 1980: Live
  • 1981: Too Much
  • 1982: Akataki

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