Frumpy

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Frumpy
General information
origin Hamburg ( Germany )
founding 1969, 1990
resolution August 1972, 1995
Founding members
singing
 Inga hull
Keyboard
 Jean-Jacques Kravetz
Drums
 Carsten Bohn
bass
 Karl-Heinz Schott
former members
guitar
 Rainer Baumann (1971–1972)
guitar
 Thomas Kretschmer (1972)
guitar
 Frank Diez (1991)

Frumpy was a German rock band that existed from 1969 to 1972 and reformed in 1990.

Band history

In 1969 drummer Carsten Bohn , singer Inga Rumpf , French keyboardist Jean-Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott left the Hamburg formation The City Preachers , which had been founded in 1965, and formed under the name Frumpy . The band name is a play on words from the name of the band leader Inga Rumpf and translates as “unclothed”.

Until the fall of 1970, Frumpy were on stage in France and Germany, for example, alongside the then already well-known band Yes . The four musicians then went into the studio and recorded their first record, All Will Be Changed , which was released on Philips Records that same year . This Krautrock album was successful in the Federal Republic of Germany . Special characteristics of the pieces are Inga Rumpf's powerful vocals, the long keyboard loops and the jazzy elements. Critics were positive. The Musikexpress voted Frumpy the most popular band of the year, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also expressed its approval.

In 1971 the band was expanded to include guitarist Rainer Baumann , and the second LP, Frumpy 2 , was released again on Philips Records. This album was recorded almost under live conditions. It contains only four pieces, the shortest of which is 7:30 minutes, the longest 12:09 minutes. Once again, Inga Rumpf's vocals, the wealth of ideas and the joy of improvisation of the organ and guitar are in the foreground. In the rock ballad How the Gypsy Was Born , the band's biggest hit, Rainer Baumann plays a long solo, which is finally followed by a long, ecstatic solo on the Hammond organ after a change of rhythm . Michael Rauhut described the piece as "the most stylish and sustainable German contribution to" classic "rock of the period between 1967 and 1977".

In 1972 Frumpy's third and for some time last record, By the Way (Vertigo Records, a Philips sub-label), was released.

Musician projects after 1972

Inga Rumpf, Jean-Jacques Kravetz and Karl-Heinz Schott founded the also successful successor to Frumpy, Atlantis , in 1972 . Carsten Bohn founded his own band, Carsten Bohn's Bandstand , with various musicians in different line- ups (from 1977 to 1981). From 1979 to 1983 Bohn composed pieces of music for the audio play label Europa , many of which were used in well-known series such as Five Friends , TKKG , Three Question Marks , Pizzabande and others. Rainer Baumann founded his own band, the Rainer Baumann Band , with which he was touring in different line-ups until 2002.

Frumpy got back together in 1990 and produced three more albums with Frank Diez , among others , which, however, are musically much smoother and quieter than those of the early years.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE
1971 All will be changed DE43 (2 weeks)
DE
2 DE22 (2 weeks)
DE
1972 By the way DE43 (2 weeks)
DE
1973 live DE45 (1 week)
DE
1990 Now DE65 (5 weeks)
DE

More albums

  • 1991: News
  • 1995: Live Ninetyfive

Singles

  • 1971: Life Without Pain / Morning
  • 1971: Roadriding / Time Makes Wise

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Bauerochse: Frumpy December 24, 2012, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Michael Rauhut : I've had the blues for a long time. Traces of a music in Germany. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978386153495-2 , p. 50. Excerpts from books.google.de
  3. ↑ Chart sources: DE