Embryo (band)
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 Embryo in Munich, 2019 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Munich , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Krautrock , world music |
| founding | 1969 |
| Website | www.embryo.de |
| Founding members | |
| Christian Burchard († 2018) | |
Wind instruments, violin
|
Edgar Hofmann |
bass |
Lothar Meid († 2015) |
| Current occupation | |
Multi-instrumentalist |
Marja Burchard |
| Maasl Maier | |
| Wolfie Schlick | |
| Jakob Thun | |
Trumpet |
Sascha Lüer |
guitar |
Jan Weissenfeld |
| former members | |
Guitar, alto saxophone
|
Chris Karrer |
Guitar, oud |
Roman Bunka |
Guitar, oud |
Yulyus Golombeck († 2000) |
| Jimmy Jackson | |
Keyboard |
Dieter Miekautsch |
Keyboard |
Michael Wehmeyer |
flute |
Hansi Fischer |
| Chuck Henderson | |
| Lena Bloch | |
Electric bass |
Lothar Meid |
Electric bass |
Ralph Fischer |
Electric bass |
Dave King |
Electric bass |
Gerald Hartwig |
Electric bass |
Chris Lachotta |
Electric bass |
Uve Müllrich |
percussion |
Ramesh Shotham |
percussion |
Butze Fischer († 2002) |
Double bass, electric bass |
Ulrich Bassenge |
Guitar, saz
|
Eugene de Ryck |
Electric bass, guitar |
Nick McCarthy |
Double bass, electric bass |
Michael Schöne |
| Jens Pollheide | |
| Mik Quantius | |
| Valentin Altenberger | |
Marimba , drums |
Lothar Stahl |
| Live and session members | |
Saxophone, flute |
Charlie Mariano (†) |
Saxophone, flute |
Monty Waters (†) |
Nadaswaram , saxophone, guitar |
Roland Schaeffer |
Alto saxophone |
Michael Hornstein |
| Werner Aldinger | |
piano |
Mal Waldron (†) |
Electric piano |
Hermann Breuer |
Piano, organ
|
Larry Porter |
guitar |
Sigi Schwab |
guitar |
Geoff Goodman |
Guitar, violin, banjo |
Titus Waldenfels |
Electric bass |
UFO Walter |
Drums, percussion, piano |
Salah Ragab |
percussion |
Trilok Gurtu |
| Houssaine Kili | |
Ghatam , percussion |
Norbert Keck |
percussion |
Paramashivam pilai |
| Peter Michael Hamel | |
synthesizer |
Fathy Salama |
| Ustad Samad Habibi | |
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Embryo is a German jazz rock and world music band. The group was founded in 1969 by Christian Burchard . Over the years, over 400 national and international jazz and rock musicians have worked in the group, which sees itself as a collective , including many well-known jazz and herb rock musicians. In 2016 Marja Burchard , the daughter of the band founder, took over the management of the project.
history
Christian Burchard was already active as a jazz musician in the 1960s and played the piano, trombone and vibraphone . He toured with Mal Waldron and formed a jazz trio with saxophonist and violinist Edgar Hofmann and drummer Dieter Serfas. In 1969 Burchard switched to drums himself and formed the new band Embryo with Hofmann and Lothar Meid .
Meid left the band after a short time to join Amon Düül . Christian Burchard was gathering new musicians around him. A total of over 400 musicians have played Embryo collectively since 1969 . Long-term members include a. Roman Bunka (guitar, oud), Uve Müllrich (bass), Michael Wehmeyer (keyboards), Lothar Stahl (marimba, drums) and Jens Pollheide (bass, flute). There were also long-standing friendships with other musicians and bands who kept appearing as guests at Embryo, including Charlie Mariano , Mal Waldron , Marty Cook , Chris Karrer (Amon Düül), and Roland Schaeffer ( Guru Guru ). There was also a close personal relationship with the Herford band Missus Beastly , who founded the April label (later Snowball ) together with Embryo, Sparifankal and Ton Steine Scherben in 1973 .
Early in 1971, Embryo had a radio hit called Centipede . Within a few years, the band's style developed from jazzy krautrock to world music , combining different styles and directions. Many Embryo albums were created on extensive concert tours to other continents. The band also performed with important musicians from the countries they have traveled to, such as Shoba Gurtu , TAS Mani , RA Ramamani , Mahmoud Gania and Okay Temiz . The film vagabond caravan of Werner Penzel (1980) reports on one of these trips that led up to India from Germany.
Bassist Müllrich and keyboardist Wehmeyer left Embryo in 1980 and formed their own band Dissidents , initially called Embryo's Dissidents .
In 1996 Christian Burchard's daughter Marja (* 1985) first appeared at Embryo at the age of eleven. As a multi-instrumentalist (piano, accordion , marimba, vibraphone, drums, trombone, organ, keyboard, santur ), she soon gained a permanent place in the band.
In July 2008 Embryo received the German World Music Prize Ruth 2008 for life's work at the TFF Rudolstadt .
In the summer of 2016, Christian Burchard suffered a stroke at the age of 70 and was no longer able to perform. Then his daughter Marja took over the leadership of the band and continues it after Burchard's death in January 2018. She has rejuvenated the band with new elements such as beatboxing and new musicians, but also carries on the embryo tradition with the involvement of musicians such as Roman Bunka and Michael Wehmeyer.
Discography
- Opal - LP / CD, 1970 Ohr 56003 u. 556003
- Embryo's Vengeance - LP / CD, 1971
- Father Sons & Holy Ghosts - LP / CD, 1972
- Get out - LP / CD, 1973
- Rocksession - LP / CD, 1973
- We keep on - LP / CD, 1973
- Surfin - LP / CD, 1975
- Bad Heads & Bad Cats - LP / CD, 1976
- Life - LP / CD, 1977
- Apo Calypso - LP / CD, 1977
- Embryo's Journey - DLP / CD, 1979/1980
- Embryo + KCP + Charlie Mariano Live - LP, 1980
- Anthology (Every Day Is Okay) - LP, 1980
- La Blama Sparozzi - Intermediate Zones - DLP, 1982
- Zack Glück - LP, 1984
- Embryo & Yoruba Dun Dun Orchestra - LP, 1985
- Africa - LP, 1987
- Turn Peace - LP / CD, 1989
- Ibn Battuta - CD, 1994
- Ni Hau - CD, 1996
- Live in Berlin - CD, 1998
- Istanbul Casablanca - Tour 1998 - 2 CDs, 1999
- Invisible Documents - 2CDs, 1999
- One Night at the Joan Miró Foundation - CD, 2000
- Live 2000 Vol.1 - CD, 2001
- Live 2001 Vol.1 - CD, 2001
- Bremen 1971 - CD, 2003
- Hallo Mik (liverecordings 2002 & 2003) - CD, 2003
- Embryo & Mal Waldron & Charlie Mariano - 29.6.73 in Hamburg - LP, 2003
- Embryonnck - No-Neck Blues Band & Embryo - CD, 2006
- Live im Wendland - CD, 2007
- For Eva - LP / CD, 2007 (1967 recordings by pianist Mal Waldron, with Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas)
- Freedom in Music - CD, 2008
- Live at Burg Herzberg Festival 2007 - CD, 2008
- Wiesbaden 1972 - CD, 2009
- Embryo 40 - 2 CDs, 2010 (Trikont)
- Message from Era Ora - 2LP, 2013 (Sound of Cobra) (with Massimo Urbani)
- It Do - 2LP / CD, 2016 (Trikont)
- Free and outdoors - Vlotho 1977 - CD, 2017
Movies
- Vagabond Caravan, 1980 (by Werner Penzel )
- Embryo - Free4Ever you think, 2018 (by Michael Wehmeyer )
literature
- Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational. The reinvention of pop music in Germany, 1968–1978 , Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3424-2
Web links
- Official website
- Movie vagabond caravan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Embryo at Allmusic (English)
- Andreas Dewald: Krautrockband Embryo: 47 years of pioneering work. Deutschlandfunk , January 3, 2016 (story, with interview by Christian Burchard)
- Embryo - Krautrockurgestein / band leader Christian Burchard remembers. Recorded by Christoph Wagner . In: ChristophWagnerMusic. blogspot.com . August 25, 2017 (history with prehistory since youth with Serfas)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.embryo.de/presse_2006.htm ( Memento from October 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) .
- ↑ Embryo - Krautrockurgestein. Band leader Christian Burchard remembers . In: ChristophWagnerMusic. blogspot.com . August 25, 2017, accessed on May 14, 2019 : “There we released the album 'Embryo's Rache'. But we were too avant-garde for them, even though the record went well. We even made the LP charts. The song 'Centipede' was played all over the radio, it was a real radio hit. "
- ↑ Embryo's Revenge. Indigo , accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Embryo ends the summer break in the archive. Archive for popular music in the Ruhr area , August 28, 2017, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
- ↑ On tour for 42 years: Embryo's journey continues. In: Mittelbayerische.de . September 16, 2011, accessed May 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Dirk Wagner: The father's shadow . In: sueddeutsche.de , September 29, 2016, accessed on May 6, 2019.
- ↑ Hanni Kinadeter: 50 years "Embryo": Krautrock band celebrates anniversary. In: hallo-muenchen.de . April 30, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Musical insider tip on the Venusberg. In: traunsteiner-tagblatt.de . June 2, 2018, accessed May 8, 2019 .