Chris Braun Band

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The Chris Braun Band was a Dortmund- based German rock group from the 1970s and early 1980s. The band released three albums, a soundtrack and various singles from 1972 to 1983, which, in addition to blues , showed influences from heavy rock, jazz and psychedelic rock and later Neue Deutsche Welle .

history

On the first album Both Sides , which was released by BASF Records in 1972, the band members Elmar Krohn (guitar, flute, percussion, vocals), Bill Bakine (drums, percussion), Jochen Bernstein (bass) and Horst Schreiber (guitar, Percussion). On the second record Foreign Lady Bernd Adamkewitz (guitar, saxophone) and Klaus Melchers (keyboard) replaced Schreiber and Bakine. The album produced by Dieter Dierks was released by Pan in 1973.

In 1981 the soundtrack for the film A Lot of Coal by Adolf Winkelmann followed . The album was published by CBS , among others , and in addition to Braun and Adamkewitz, the cast consisted of Joachim Bernstein and Ralph Bloch.

The album Ultrabraun , released in 1983, was based on the Neue Deutsche Welle and was released by EMI's NDW sub-label Welt-Rekord .

Discography

Albums

  • 1972: Both Sides
  • 1973: Foreign Lady
  • 1981: Lots of Coal (soundtrack)
  • 1983: Ultra brown

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discogs : Chris Braun Band - Both Sides.Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Discogs: Chris Braund Band - Foreign Lady. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  3. ^ IMDb : Any amount of coal (1981) Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ Norbert Jürgen Schneider, Enjott Schneider: Handbook Filmmusik: Musical dramaturgy in the new German film. Ölschläger, 1986, ISBN 3882951168 , p. 23
  5. ↑ Discogs: Chris Braun Band - A lot of coal - The record for the film by Adolf Winkelmann. Retrieved on February 15, 2017.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Spahr: New Wave Grabbing Large Market Share . Billboard, Feb. 27, 1982, ISSN 0006-2510
  7. ↑ Discogs: Chris Braun Band - Ultrabraun.Retrieved February 15, 2017.