Yes King Yes
| Yes King Yes | |
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 Performance of JaKönigJa in the Cologne club Studio 672 on March 14, 2005 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Hamburg , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Hamburg School |
| founding | 1994 |
| Website | www.jakoenigja.de |
| Founding members | |
| Ebba Durstewitz | |
| Jakobus Durstewitz | |
| Current occupation | |
Singing, cello, piano |
Ebba Durstewitz |
Singing, banjo, guitar |
Jakobus Durstewitz |
| Marco Dreckkötter (since 1995) | |
bass |
Alexander Rischer (since 2016) |
| former members | |
bass |
Stefan Barg (1997–?) |
bass |
Uwe Heils (1999–?) |
| Matthias "Tex" Strzoda (1998-?) | |
| John Raphael Burgess (2005-?) | |
| Johann Popp (2005-?) | |
JaKönigJa is a German pop - band from Hamburg .
history
JaKönigJa were founded on September 6, 1994 by Jakobus (Ex-Das Neue Brot) and Ebba Durstewitz . The first away appearance in Augsburg followed a week later, for which they had actually booked Das Neue Brot.
A short time later, producer and journalist Detlef Diederichsen discovered the band for his record label MOLL, on which the first, self-titled album was released in the spring of 1995. From then on, JaKönigJa became known as the house band of the Hamburg Golden Pudel Club .
In 1997 Detlef Diederichsen produced the band's second, again self-titled album. After Diederichsen had separated from MOLL, this was published on the label Musikproduktion Detlef Diederichsen , which was founded for this purpose . A tour and concerts with The High Llamas followed . In 1999 the album Tiefsee was released , which was implemented at concerts by a five-piece band.
The following years were characterized by side projects by the artists, a few concerts and musical participation in Jens Huckeriede's film project The Return of the Tüdelband , until the decision was made in spring 2004 to record the fourth album, this time self-produced, Ebba .
The work, much praised by the music press, was released on the Buback label in early 2005 . This was also the beginning of the collaboration with the label, which continues to this day.
In 2007 Ebba and Jakobus Durstewitz went to the Art Blakey Studio of Die Goldenen Zitronen to record their fifth studio album . Together with Mense Reents , who has already mixed most of the songs on Ebba and was featured on this album as a guest musician , they produced and mixed the material. In January 2008, the album was finally completed, which was released in April 2008.
In 2016 the band's sixth album was released with the title Emanzipation im Wald . Spiegel Online praises it as: "... one of the best German-language albums of recent years".
In 2018 JaKönigJa gave a concert in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie . They were supported by their former bandmates Matthias “Tex” Strzoda and Johann Popp and members of the Junge Symphoniker Hamburg .
Discography
Albums
- 1995: Ja König Ja (minor, 1997 at music production Detlef Diederichsen )
- 1997: Ja König Ja (music production Detlef Diederichsen)
- 1999: Tiefsee (music production Detlef Diederichsen)
- 2005: Ebba ( Buback )
- 2008: The Rope of the Darned (Buback)
- 2016: Emancipation in the forest (Buback)
Sampler contributions
- Who knows? on pearls of German-speaking pop music # 2 - Not at home mom ( Trikont , 1996)
- Doesn't do well on Camp Imperial (L'Age d'Or, 1996)
- Is not doing well on Better days sounds good (L'Age d'Or, 1997)
- Bob Dylan on New Voices Vol 26 ( Rolling Stone CD, 1999)
- A real Hamborger Jung and Kometenlied on Return of the Tüdelband (Trikont, 2003)
- The city in the summer of 50 years of pop music - 1995 book and CD ( Süddeutsche Zeitung , 2005)
- You Must Share These Pains on Spex -Heft CD (Spex, 2005)
- Every word on Must All With 3 (wallpaper, 2005)
- 1-0: É sorte que tivemos sorte on PlayUp (JUNO-Hamburg, 2006)
Web links
- Official website
- JaKönigJa at Discogs (English)
- Lyrics of JaKönigJa
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album review in Kulturnews
- ^ Album review in the mirror
- ^ Album review at Spiegel Online
- ^ Program archive on the official website of the Elbphilharmonie