Dzyan

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Dzyan
General information
Genre (s) Progressive rock , jazz rock
founding 1972
resolution 1974
Founding members
Harry Chandler
Jochen Leuschner
Gerd Ehrmann
Ludwig Braum
Reinhard Karwatky
Last occupation
Guitar, saz , sitar , vocals
Eddy Marron
Drums, percussion
Peter Giger
Reinhard Karwatky
former members
Drums
Lothar Scharf

Dzyan was a German Krautrock band in the first half of the 1970s that developed from progressive rock to jazz rock .

The original line-up consisted of the guitarist Harry Krämer, the singer Jochen Leuschner, the drummer Ludwig Braum, the bassist Reinhard Karwatky and Gerd Ehrmann on the saxophone. As a quintet, the band recorded an album under the same name; However, Braum and Krämer left the band before the first appearance. With Lothar Scharf on drums, who replaced Volker Kriegel, and guitarist Eddy Marron , who came from the band Vita Nova , the quintet clearly developed in the direction of jazz rock in the second half of 1972; it appeared at the pop shop of what was then Südwestfunk (this is where the radio recording Mandala , published in 2010, was made ). The bassist Reinhard Karwartky then re-formed the band in 1973 with Eddy Marron and Peter Giger on drums; Dzyan released two more albums as a trio, which received critical acclaim. On the occasion of the release of the last record Electric Silence in 1974 the Jazz Podium said that Dzyan would make a name for themselves with the album as “probably the best German band” in the jazz rock field.

Discography

  • Dzyan 1972
  • Time Machine 1973
  • Electric Silence 1974
  • Mandala (SWF session 1972) 2010

Individual evidence

  1. To the band history

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