Dagmar Krause

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Dagmar Krause (2017)

Dagmar Krause (born June 4, 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German rock , jazz and avant-garde singer who has spent most of her musical career in England. There she is regarded as one of the most important voices of British progressive rock and the rock-in-opposition movement.

Live and act

Krause performed in clubs on Hamburg's Reeperbahn at the age of 14 . In 1968 she joined the popular folk- pop group The City Preachers . a. and Udo Lindenberg and Inga Rumpf belonged. The ensemble disbanded a short time later. Rumpf and Krause released an LP together under the name ID Company - in fact, they were two different solo projects, each making up one LP side.

In 1972 Krause met the British composer Anthony Moore (whom she later married) and the Danish-American lyricist / musician Peter Blegvad . Moore and Blegvad were looking for a singer for a band project that was to pursue a new style: a "naive rock band" that combined simple pop structures with complex lyrics. The Slapp Happy trio was created together with Krause . Since neither Moore nor Blegvad had any experience as rock musicians, the journalist and producer Uwe Nettelbeck brought them together with the band Faust , which he supervised and which initially functioned as a backing band. In this constellation, Slapp Happy got a record deal with the German Polydor and recorded two albums: Sort Of (1972) and Casablanca Moon (1973). The first LP was not very well received and the second album was initially unreleased.

In the meantime, Nettelbeck had established contacts with the British label Virgin Records . Virgin signed Slapp Happy, but on the condition that the second LP would be re-recorded. The band then moved to London and produced a new version of Casablanca Moon with various session musicians. Some of them came from the so-called Canterbury scene , whose musical network was also formative for Krause's bands and projects in the following years.

The LP was released in 1974 without a title and was a respectable success for the then still young label. (Later editions of the LP were also carried under the originally intended name, which occasionally leads to confusion with the Polydor version, which was released in 1980 under the title Acnalbasac Noom .)

Slapp Happy then toured successfully with another ensemble from the Canterbury scene, the political rock formation Henry Cow , which was also under contract with Virgin. The tour led to a kind of fusion of the two bands, and the two projects Desperate Straights (1974) and In Praise of Learning (1975) emerged. However, musical and political differences caused a break, and Moore and Blegvad left the ensemble.

Krause stayed with Henry Cow and toured Europe with the formation for two years. For health reasons she returned to Hamburg in 1976, but wanted to take part in the band's next studio album. During these recordings there were also internal disputes, so that the album Hopes And Fears was finally released as a project by a new band, the Art Bears , which, in addition to Krause, also consisted of the drummer Chris Cutler and the guitarist Fred Frith .

The Art Bears were originally only intended as a short-lived project, but released two more LPs in the Krause / Cutler / Frith constellation. Then Cutler and Krause started a new band project with News from Babel , which brought out two albums.

In the following years, however, Krause appeared primarily as a solo artist and as a contributor in other projects and collaborations. So she worked z. B. with Michael Nyman , Lindsay Cooper , Tim Hodgkinson . In 1978 she appeared in a London production of Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . In 1979 she released the album Babble in a duo with Kevin Coyne . In 1981 she worked with Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth , creating contemporary interpretations of Brechtsongs for the first time.

In 1986 the two solo albums Supply and Demand with songs by Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill and Tank Battles with songs by Hanns Eisler were released . Both LPs were also released in German-language versions under the titles Supply and Demand and Panzerschlacht .

In 1991, Krause worked again with Moore and Blegvad for the first time: the television opera Camera was created for Channel 4 based on an idea by Krause with music by Moore and texts by Blegvad, in which Krause appeared as Melusine. A few years later Slapp Happy was also officially reformed - the LP Ça Va was released in 1997 - and in 2000 there was a tour in Japan, which was also documented on CD. In 1992 she worked on a production by Lutz Glandien . In 1996 she also worked with Dirk Raulf on his album with chansons by the composer Friedrich Hollaender . With Marie Goyette , she reflected on classical works in 1998 in a scientific dream and french kiss .

In 2010 she joined the Comicoperando Ensemble, which interprets music by Robert Wyatt and which includes Annie Whitehead and Karen Mantler as well as her old companion Chris Cutler .

Discography

Dagmar Krause 1997

With the City Preachers

  • The pumpkin, the transport problem and the dream dancers ( Decca , 1968)
  • Back To The City ( Hörzu , 1970)

With Slapp Happy

  • Sort Of (1972, Polydor)
  • Acnalbasac Noom (1973, possibly only 1980 on Recommended Records )
  • Slapp Happy (1974, Virgin, also called Casablanca Moon )
  • Ça Va (1997, V2 )
  • Live In Japan (2000, FMN)

As Slapp Happy / Henry Cow

  • Desperate Straights (1974, Virgin)
  • In Praise Of Learning (1975, Virgin)

With Henry Cow

  • Henry Cow Concerts (1976, Caroline)

With the Art Bears

  • Hopes And Fears (1978, Recommended)
  • Winter Songs (1979, Recommended)
  • The World As It Is Today (1981, Recommended)

With News from Babel

  • Work Resumed on the Tower (1984, Recommended)
  • Letters Home (1985, Recommended)

Solo albums and other projects (a selection)

  • ID Company (1970, Hörzu, with Wolfgang Kliegel, Frank St. Peter , Hans Hartmann , Joe Nay and, on the other side of the record, Inga Rumpf )
  • Babble (1979, Virgin, with Kevin Coyne )
  • Bertolt Brecht: Time is running out (1981, with Heiner Goebbels & Alfred Harth)
  • The penetrated man / Indian for tomorrow (1981, with Heiner Goebbels & Alfred Harth)
  • Commuters (1982/2000, Amphibious / Voiceprint Records , with Harold Schellinx and Ronald Heiloo )
  • Supply and Demand / Supply and Demand (1986, Hannibal)
  • Tank Battles / Panzerschlacht (1986, Iceland)
  • Camera (1991, Blueprint, with Anthony Moore and Peter Blegvad )
  • Voiceprint Radio Sessions (1993, Voiceprint Records)
  • Friedrich Hollaender Or the Laughter of Loneliness (1996, New Classic Colors, with Dirk Raulf Orchestra)
  • A Scientific Dream and a French Kiss (1998, Resurgence, with Marie Goyette)

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SURNAME Krause, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg