Cobra (band)
| cobra | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| founding | 1980 |
| resolution | 1983 |
| Last occupation | |
| Adnan Bayrakci | |
| Hayrettin Önesol | |
| Nedim Unal | |
| Fevzi Bineytioglu | |
Kobra was a Berlin rock group consisting of Adnan Bayrakci, Hayrettin Önesol, Nedim Ünal and Fevzi Bineytioglu.
history
All of the members came to Germany from Turkey with their parents in the early 1970s and got to know each other in the Kreuzberg music scene. Initially under names like Atlantic , Westwind and Harem V , they had made conventional music together for clubs, Turkish weddings and circumcision celebrations. Kobra was founded in 1980 after finding their own style, oriental rock . The group accompanied the mainly Turkish lyrics with drums, electric guitar, bass, keyboard and saz .
Appearances on German television and radio followed. But pieces by Kobra were also played by Turkish radio stations. As the opening act for the GDR band Karat , the band once performed in front of 15,000 people in the Berlin Waldbühne, including the German-language song Die Mauer in Ihr Kopf, written especially for the occasion .
During her three-year career, Kobra only released one LP and one MC. There were no offers from major record companies due to their narrow repertoire in German. Nevertheless, the band is considered a first impulse towards cross-national popular music by Turks in Germany, because "their music is aimed at a new generation, at young Turks and Germans"
swell
- Hans Dieter Grünfeld: Music - micro-intervals and polyrhythms . In: Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland (2007), p. 314 f.
- Klaus Pokatzky: rock oriental. The Turkish group "Kobra" . In: Die Zeit, March 4, 1983, No. 10
- Constanze Suhr: “Orientrock in Berlin”, interview with the Turkish rock group Kobra, taz, July 6, 1982
- Constanze Suhr: "Kobra", television, "Berliner Fenster", SFB III, October 1982
- "Kobra" in: "Between Cultures - Musicians from Turkey in Berlin", Feature (58'03 ") by Constanze Suhr and Burkhard Voiges, SFB III, 1986
Single receipts
- ↑ Constanze Suhr: The Orient rocks. The rock group Kobra . In: Tip 16 (1982)