Handicraft (band)

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Handwork
General information
Genre (s) blues
founding 1979
resolution 1989
Founding members
Guitar, vocals
 Peter Schmidt
guitar
 Roland (Rolli) Beeg
from 1983
Drums
 Wolf-Rüdiger Kotlyarsky
Bass, harmonica
 Ralf Schuldt

Handarbeit was a German blues band . It was founded in Potsdam at the end of 1979 and existed until 1989.

Band history

Although handicraft was considered an insider tip in the GDR blues scene , it was hardly noticed in public - unlike, for example, Stefan Diestelmann , Jürgen Kerth or Engerling . Since the band preferred to play English-language titles, they were not given access to the GDR media or the Amiga recording studios . Inevitably, Handarbeit also became the first band to produce recordings in a private recording studio. The studio belonged to Gunther Wosylus, who was then the drummer for the Puhdys . Two tracks were recorded: Blues for Bessi Smith and Pleasant Joseph . The latter was banned by the GDR cultural authorities. The ban was the reason for the musicians not to publish any more studio recordings and to remain a live band.

The highlight in the band's history was their appearance on August 16, 1983 in Ketzin , where they played together with Freygang , Engerling and Monokel in front of about 7,000 customers .

In the 1980s, many blues bands went new musical ways. Handarbeit was more oriented towards jazz and was also the first East German band to include Django Reinhardt's songs in their repertoire. In 1988 the band took part in a performance comparison and was recognized as the outstanding amateur dance orchestra of the GDR and was then awarded professional status limited to two years.

A year later, Schmidt left the band and played together with Alexander Blume in the Intercity Bluesband . But in 1990 he founded the band East Blues Experience .

After Schmidt's departure, manual labor was dissolved. The other former band members play today at Pass over Blues .

See also

literature

  • Michael Rauhut , Thomas Kochan (Ed.): Bye Bye, Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR . 1st edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan (ed.): Bye Bye, Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X , p. 406.
  2. ↑ The Ketzin open-air concert was not only remarkable because of the large number of spectators, but also marked the turning point of the scene. See “Wittstock instead of Woodstock - hippies in the GDR”. Documentary by Lutz Pensionner and Frank Otto
  3. ↑ a b Roland Beeg: Pass over Blues - band history and prehistory . Retrieved December 18, 2011.