Dzyan
Dzyan | |
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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 | |
Eddy Marron | |
Drums, percussion
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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
Web links
- Dzyan at Allmusic (English)
- Dzyan on the baby blue pages
- Dzyan at Krautrock-Musikommunikus.de