Malaria!

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Malaria!
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) New wave , dark wave
founding 1981
resolution 1984
Founding members
Bettina Köster
Drums , vocals
 Gudrun Good
Last occupation
Vocals, saxophone, harmonica
 Bettina Köster
Drums, vocals
 Gudrun Good
Manon Pepita Duursma
former members
Susanne Kuhnke
Guitar, keyboard , drums
 Christine Hahn

Malaria! was a Berlin band that emerged from the formation Mania D in 1981 . They also achieved international success during the New Wave movement. The founding members were Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster . There were also Manon Pepita Duursma from the Nina Hagen project OUT , Christine Hahn , who already worked with the avant-garde musician Glenn Branca , and Susanne Kuhnke from the band Die Haut . The malaria! Video clip Geld / Money by Brigitte Bühler shows experimental film art.

history

Malaria commuted musically! between classic dark wave and cool, danceable avant-garde music. Her best-known title is Cold Clear Water . Originally only conceived for live presentation, the track was created as a sideline production on a tour in Brussels and quickly developed into an underground hit, which was re-set to music in numerous cover versions around the turn of the millennium - including by Barbara Morgenstern and Chicks on Speed .

Malaria played with Nina Hagen ! in New York's Studio 54 and with John Cale in the Mudd Club. Malaria! was on tour with Siouxsie and the Banshees , New Order and The Birthday Party , with whom they played in the New York “Danceteria”, in the Parisian “Les Bains Douches”, in the London Batcave and again and again in the SO36 in Kreuzberg / Berlin. Malaria! influenced young girl bands, such as "Chicks on Speed", who published a cover version of Malaria's 1981 hit Kaltes Klares Wasser , whose lyricist is Köster.

In the mid-1980s, malaria introduced! the activities for the time being and only published in 1992, shrunk to the Trio Köster-Gut-Duursma, new material under the title Elation .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Cold clear water (Malaria! Vs. Chicks on Speed )
  DE 16 03/05/2001 (8 weeks)
  • 1981: Malaria (12 ")
  • 1981: How Do You Like My New Dog? (7 ")
  • 1982: Emotion (LP)
  • 1982: New York Passage (12 ")
  • 1982: White Water (12 ")
  • 1983: Revisited - Live (cassette)
  • 1984: Beat the Distance (12 ")
  • 1991: Compiled (CD)
  • 1991: Cold Clear Water (CDM)
  • 1992: Elation (CDM)
  • 1993: Cheerio (CD)
  • 2001: Compiled 1981-1984 (CD)
  • 2001: Versus EP (12 ")

Awards

  • Dance Music Award
    • 2001: in the category "Most successful national vinyl sales hit" (cold clear water)

literature

Movie

Web links

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE