Biton grooves

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Biton grooves
Studio album by Volker Kriegel

Publication
(s)

2019

Label (s) Moosicus Records

Format (s)

2 CD

Genre (s)

Fusion , jazz rock , easy listening

Title (number)

37

running time

1:46:00

occupation

Studio (s)

Biton-Studio, Frankfurt am Main

chronology
Lost Tapes-Mainz 1963-1969
(2013) 		Biton grooves -
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Biton Grooves is a fusion album by guitarist Volker Kriegel . The recordings were made from 1974 to 1982 in Biton-Studio, Frankfurt am Main and initially appeared on five long-playing records that were not freely available in stores. Originally intended as background music for radio and television productions, the material from these sessions was released on a double CD on the Moosicus label in 2019.

background

The recording for Biton was found during the viewing and subsequent digitization of Volker Kriegel's audio tape archive; most of the tapes were in excellent condition. Among the tapes were u. a. Master tapes from the LP of the Quartet Spectrum , “Mild Maniac” from 1974 and also from the LP “Schöne Aussichten”, released a good decade later by Mood Records , as well as alternative versions (“Prinz Eisenherz” and “Schnellhörspiel”), live recordings from the Idsteiners Palace concerts in 1977 or three compositions by Kriegel for a short film. “The showpiece of the bundle,” says Hans-Jürgen Linke, “was music that Kriegel and his band had recorded in the Biton Studio in Frankfurt.”

The individual line-ups were "recorded a little casually" on the tapes, because a release in the music trade as a regular Kriegel LP was not planned. Rather, the intention was commercial. The studio made the recordings available free of charge as production music to television and radio stations, which they used at their own discretion. Pieces from the mild maniac line-up were included in night programs, in end credits and opening credits . Biton received license tariffs for this; the musicians also received money from Gema . Apparently that was "a viable business model " at the time , because in the 1970s and 80s the Biton studios in Frankfurt produced a number of so-called library records. The 2-CD edition contains 37 compositions by Kriegel and his musical companions, including a. Rainer Brüninghaus (e-piano), Eberhard Weber or Hans-Peter Ströer (bass) and Klaus Weiss (drums).

Track list

  • Volker Kriegel: Biton Grooves (Moosicus - M1309-2)
CD 1
  1. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Hands Off (V. Kriegel) 2:09
  2. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: The Stop Watch (V. Kriegel) 2:22
  3. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Towards You (V. Kriegel) 3:17
  4. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: In and Out (V. Kriegel) 2:31
  5. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: In the Playground (V. Kriegel) 2:45
  6. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Outline (V. Kriegel) 2:32
  7. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Palm Dreams (HP Ströer) 3:04
  8. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Mouse Funk (HP Ströer) 1:57
  9. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Madison Bold (V. Kriegel) 3:03
  10. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Clearface Heavy (V. Kriegel) 2:22
  11. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: One Day in Summer (HP Ströer) 2:38
  12. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Flute Statement (V. Kriegel) 2:38
  13. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Song for Anja (V. Kriegel) 3:04
  14. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Soul Zebra (V. Kriegel) 3:23
  15. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Summer Breeze (R. Brüninghaus) 3:14
  16. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Soft Thunder (V. Kriegel) 2:22
  17. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Sweet Soul Samba (V. Kriegel) 3:01
  18. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: In Your Face (V. Kriegel) 2:21
  19. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Bahia Next Year (V. Kriegel) 3:08
CD2
  1. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: Certao (V. Kriegel) 2:46
  2. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: Dialogue (HP Ströer) 3:07
  3. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: Delay Time (V. Kriegel) 3:08
  4. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: Fly Easy (HP Ströer) 2:34
  5. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: We Will Sing (V. Kriegel) 2:42
  6. Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer: I Naranjo (HP Ströer) 2:59
  7. –Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Just for You (V. Kriegel) 3:40
  8. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Some Truck Funk (T. Bettermann) 2:22
  9. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Big Tattoo (HP Ströer) 4:03
  10. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: Mr. Solomon (V. Kriegel) 3:19
  11. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: I Can See You Now (V. Kriegel) 4:12
  12. Volker Kriegel, The Groove Combination: You've Got It (HP Ströer) 2:12
  13. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Fortaleza (V. Kriegel) 2:51
  14. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Walking Distance (V. Kriegel) 3:24
  15. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Jenny Comes Back (V. Kriegel) 2:45
  16. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Sticker (HP Ströer) 3:18
  17. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Batida (T. Bettermann) 2:24
  18. Volker Kriegel, The Groove-Combination: Fountain Valley (V. Kriegel) 2:42

Sessions and LP editions

Volker Kriegel, November 1992
  • The tracks 1-1 to 1-5 were created in 1974 in Biton-Studio, Frankfurt (Biton BIT 2001) - Volker Kriegel & The Groove-Combination, Guy Carondel Orchestra
  • The tracks 1-6 to 1-19 were created on February 9, 1976 in Biton-Studio, Frankfurt (Biton BIT 2002) - Volker Kriegel & The Groove-Combination
  • Tracks 2-1 to 2-6 were created in June 1978 in the Biton-Studio, Frankfurt (Biton BIT 2004) - Guy Carondel and his orchestra / Volker Kriegel, Hans Peter Ströer - guitars and rhythm
  • The tracks 2-7 to 2-12 were created in May 1978 in Biton-Studio, Frankfurt (Biton BIT 2006) - Volker Kriegel & The Groove-Combination / Rainer Brüninghaus & Friends
  • The tracks 2-13 to 2-18 were created in 1982 in Biton-Studio, Frankfurt (Biton BIT 2008) - Volker Kriegel & The Groove-Combination / Leaf

reception

Hans-Jürgen Linke ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) praised Kriegel's album as “Utopian music for everyday use, miles away from the laziness of the present”; He went on to write: “Volker Kriegel's music came into being at a time when most musicians and listeners of popular music would have preferred to be electric guitarists in order to be fast, loud and distorted. Kriegel lived this dream in his own way, which left the tough parts of the guitarist being behind. He played fast, but not brutally or schematically, but flowing, pearly, with long licks and fine bends. He played electrically and with plenty of effects electronics, but mostly on a semi-acoustic guitar and was subdued and extremely cultivated. His jazz rock sound always had something ironic and universal, his technical skills and his sonic catchment area were terrific. [...] If this music had made it into the elevators of the republic, how much one would like to take an elevator today. "

The WDR broadcast Resonanzen added the album to their list of albums of the week . "The relatively catchy melodies and simple sounds adapted to the purpose of the recordings retain the unmistakable Kriegel sound with its fast melodic guitar riffs and harmonic chord splits through and through."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the, album at MIG
  2. ↑ a b c d Hans-Jürgen Linke: Biton Grooves: Vom mild Wahnsinn. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 24, 2019, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Resonanzen: Album of the week. WDR, May 6, 2019, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ [ https://www.discogs.com/Volker-Kriegel-Biton-Grooves/release/13432760 Volker Kriegel: Biton Grooves at Discogs