Blues projects (GDR)

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Similar to the guitar eros in rock, there were blues projects in the music history of the GDR that brought together musicians from leading bands from the rock, jazz and blues scene, performed music in big band style and recorded records that became "bestsellers" . The musicians were firmly integrated into bands and were therefore usually tied to one musical genre. They came together in short-term projects. The blues projects gave them the opportunity to pursue special musical inclinations and also found a blues-loving audience. This becomes particularly clear with Frank “Gala” Gahler. He had played the blues harp with Monokel for a long time and shaped the band with his voice. NO 55 and Gala, in which he played after Monokel , were pure rock bands. On the cover of the LP Stormy Spring, when asked about the reasons for the excursion into the blues, he says that enjoying the blues took precedence over technical refinements.

Projects

Amiga Blues Band

This band was put together in 1983 by the Amiga record label for the sole purpose of producing a blues record. Michael “Lefty” Linke (Monocle), Frank “Gala” Gahler (Monocle, NO 55 ), Wolfram “Boddi” Bodag ( Engerling ), Gerhard “Hugo” Laartz ( Modern Soul Band ), Georgi “Joro” Gogow were there among others ( City , NO 55), Peter “Caesar” glasses ( Klaus Renft Combo , Karussell , Die Spieler), Herbert Junck ( Hansi Biebl Band ). They were accompanied by the jazz musicians Helmut Forsthoff ( alto saxophone ), Claus-Dieter Knispel ( trumpet ), Dagobert Darsow ( trombone ) and Norbert Jäger ( percussion ). The band made their live debut on January 29, 1983 at the event Rock for Peace and released the LP Not Fade Away , on the international blues classics from Walking By My Self to Little Red Rooster and Not Fade Away . In the same year there were further performances in cities of the GDR.

  • 1983: Not Fade Away (Amiga)

Blankenfeld boogie band

Another big band project was founded in 1988 by Lutz Kerschowski . Kerschowski was the front man of the rock band Kerschowski in the 1980s , then played for Ton Steine ​​Scherben , now composes film music and manages the musical estate of Rio Reiser , with whom he was close friends from 1988. The band, which essentially consisted of Kerschowski , played: Lutz Kerschowski (vocals), Marcus “Basskran” Schloussen (bass guitar, later: Renft), Jörg Mischke (piano, organ, keyboard), “Delle” Kris (today: Renft ), Kay Lutter (bass guitar) (today: In Extremo ), Peter Michailow (drums), Heiner Witte (Engerling), Wolfram Bodag (Engerling), Peter "Cäsar" Gläser (vocals, guitar), "Wilkie" Wilkendorf (vocals, Guitar), Jürgen Ehle (guitar) and the wind players Tina Tandler , Frank Krüger, “Sonny” Sonntag, Frank Hultzsch and Christian Höhle. The band went on tour together through the GDR and released an LP on Amiga, which was recorded in an improvised garage studio and mixed by Rio Reiser in the Federal Republic. You can hear pop classics with German texts by Lutz Kerschowski.

  • 1989: Lutz Kerschowski & Blankenfelder Boogie Band (Amiga).

Mama Blues Project

17 musicians from the genres of blues, jazz and rock were united under this name: Frank Gala Gahler (vocals, blues harp), Georgi Gogow (bass guitar), Peter Michailow (drums), Lothar “Willi” Wilcke (organ), Sieghart Schubert (keyboard, trombone), Carsten Mohren (keyboard), Andy Wieczorek, Bernd Hauke (drums), Gisbert "Pitti" Piatkowski (vocals, guitar), Alexander Blume (piano), Michael Linke (vocals, guitar), Waldemar "Waldi “Weiz (vocals), Andre Jolig (keyboard), Falk Breitkreuz (saxophone), Joachim Hesse (trumpet), Volker Schlott (saxophone) and Jörg Huke (trombone). The jazz musicians Hesse, Schlott and Huke were successful as the Fun Horns at that time . The LP was recorded in February 1989 and contains original compositions by Gahler, Gogow and Weiz.

  • 1989: Stormy Spring (Amiga)

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