The aeronauts

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The aeronauts
General information
origin Schaffhausen , Switzerland
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1991
Website www.aeronauten.ch
Current occupation
Trumpet, trombone,
vocals, guitar
 Moth (Roman Bergamin)
Vocals, guitar, bass,
harmonium, organ
 Olifr M. Guz (Oliver Maurmann) († 2020)
guitar
 Lukas Langenegger
Saxophone, clarinet,
organ, vocals
 Roger Greipl
Drums, vocals
 Dany (Daniel d'Aujourd'hui)
bass
 Marc Zimmermann

The Aeronauten are a Swiss rock band from Schaffhausen that was founded in 1991.

history

The aeronauts originally started out as a punk band in the early 1990s , based among other things on British pop from the early 1980s. What has remained of that is their preference for short, danceable pieces and their postmodern disrespect, with which they make all stylistic epochs of popular music usable for themselves.

At the beginning they came up with the name aeronauts because Olifr, who sings, liked to make model airplanes . And flying is a dream that they all liked, "because we are aeronauts and this is our little world" (quote from the title song of the first record 1:72 , the number is a model pilot's scale).

Her CD Gegen Alles from 1995 only contained German texts and was at the same time the end point of the young people's “Everything is a shit attitude”. The debut album also contained songs with English lyrics.

On Extremadura from 1997 a lot more experimentation with recording techniques was made. In order to become more attractive for French-speaking Switzerland , they first released a CD single containing three songs sung in French, namely Eddi , le peintre (The painter) and bonne amie (girlfriend), as well as an English one. At the beginning of their careers, they performed live in suits: black pants, white shirts and red jackets. (Quote from Olifr :) "That made a good trap, especially in the lousy shops."

The band's guitarist, singer and mastermind, Oliver Maurmann, has also been running his solo project as Guz since the mid-1980s , where he published something crazy and weird on several LPs and CDs that went beyond what he was used to with the combo aeronauts. His last CD Geheime Weltregierung , the title of which only parodically simulates politics and conspiracy, is a kind of retro trip to rockabilly and garage rock rhythms. He passed away in January 2020.

style

The aeronauts play a mixture of pop , garage rock , punk and soul with lyrics in mostly German standard language, sometimes also in English or French or in Swiss-German dialect. They use from the Style fundus of popular music, from 1940s jazz ( " Swing -Zwang") via Country- parodies the way to New Wave .

L'age d'or, the record label of the so-called “ Hamburger Schule ” - discourse pop , released “All 16 hits and 9 rare / unreleased tracks!” In February 2004, including “a thick booklet with a biography, obscure photos and the full discography ”. Despite the common label and the fact that they know and like each other, they by no means count themselves as part of the Hamburg school. In autumn 2006 the CD of the aeronauts “ Hier: Die Aeronauten” was released , a “return to their roots”. Also in the 2010s, more albums came out in 2012, 2013 and 2015.

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: 1:72
  • 1995: Against everything
  • 1997: Now music
  • 1998: Honolulu
  • 2001: Bohème pas de Problème
  • 2004: Too good for this world (Best of)
  • 2006: Here: the aeronauts
  • 2010: Hello passion!
  • 2012: Too Big To Fail (2 CDs)
  • 2013: Live!
  • 2015: Heinz

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Guz is dead. Tages-Anzeiger , January 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Review of the album "Heinz" , Musikexpress October 2015, accessed January 23, 2020
  3. ↑ Review of “Heinz” , Die Zeit October 2015, accessed January 23, 2020
  4. ^ Review of "Heinz" , intro music magazine October 2015 January 23, 2020