Ken (band)
| Ken | |
|---|---|
 Abay performing live in 2003 |
|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | In the |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | https://de-de.facebook.com/KENBANDofficial |
| Current occupation | |
| Aydo Abay | |
| Georg Brenner | |
guitar |
Oliver Fries |
| Marcel of the willows | |
| Michael Borwitzky | |
| former members | |
| Guido Lucas | |
Ken (spelling: KEN ) is an indie band founded in 2001 around singer Aydo Abay .
To start squatting beside Abay, singer belonged to the Koblenz band Blackmail to 2008, which at Scumbucket involved Guido Lucas (bass) and Michael Fritsche (drums), continue Oliver Fries (guitarist for Profession Reporter ) and Oliver Lauxen (guitar, saxophone and organ). With this line-up, the album Have a Nice Day was recorded in 2002 , to which Blackmail guitarist Kurt Ebelhäuser also contributed on individual tracks .
Over time, the line-up changed several times. In the meantime, Markus Krieg replaced drummer Michael Fritsche, and from 2004 the band included founding members Aydo Abay, Guido Lucas and Oliver Fries, Georg Brenner (guitar), Marcel von der Weiden (keyboard) and Jens Küchenthal (drummer from Genepool and formerly Jelly Planet ). In 2005, both the cover album I am Thief and a homage to Charles Mingus Stop! Look! Sing Songs of Revolutions! titled album published with own compositions.
On October 30, 2009, the single Get a Life was released , which served as the soundtrack for the European Outdoor Film Tour and from the end of 2012 could also be heard in an international commercial for the Porsche Cayman .
2010 they released with Yes We (Ken) , an allusion to the election campaign slogan of the US President Barack Obama Yes We Can , another album. For the first time Michael Borwitzky could be heard on drums. A limited version of the album comes with another CD entitled Yes They (Ken) . This includes a Dire Straits cover with Brothers in Arms as a collaboration with Von Spar , as well as remix versions by Nachlader , Frank Popp , Alexander Odden ( Pegboard Nerds ) and Audun Stengel ( Apoptygma Berzerk ). Johannes Stankowski ( Werle & Stankowski ) contributed his own adaptation of the older Ken piece Wake City .
Discography
- Have a Nice Day (2002)
- I am Thief (2005)
- Stop! Look! Sing Songs of Revolutions! (2005)
- Yes We Ken (2010)