Ougenweide
| Ougenweide | |
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 Ougenweide live 2011 in Saarbrücken |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock , medieval rock |
| founding | 1970 |
| Website | www.ougenweide.eu |
| Founding members | |
| Frank Wulff († 2010) | |
| Michael Steinbeck | |
| Jürgen Isenbart († 2015) | |
| Brigitte Blunck | |
| Stefan Wulff | |
| Olaf Casalich | |
| Current occupation | |
| Olaf Casalich | |
| Stefan Wulff | |
Singing, monochord , singing saw, recorder |
Sabine Maria Reiss |
| Krzysztof Gediga | |
Drums, violin , glockenspiel |
Martin Engelbach |
| Hinrich Dageför | |
| former members | |
| Wolfgang von Henko | |
| Minne Graw | |
| Renée Kollmorgen | |
| Stefan Rager | |
Ougenweide is a German folk rock band and a pioneer of medieval rock in Germany.
Its name comes from the Middle High German word ougenweide for " eye candy ", a sight that one enjoys.
history
Beginnings
A previous band consisted of Frank Wulff, Michael Steinbeck, Jürgen Isenbart and Brigitte Blunck at the end of 1969 . Ougenweide was founded in Hamburg in spring 1970 . From the beginning, the band set itself the goal of (re) setting medieval songs and poems to music, whereby the perspective was never strictly limited to the Middle Ages . The band was named after the song of the same name by Neidhart von Reuental , the first joint composition by Ougenweide ( see also : verse of the original ). The combo made its first public appearance in 1971 at a school festival. After a short time Stefan Wulff and Olaf Casalich became band members. From then on they called themselves Ougenweide.
The multi-instrumentalists Olaf Casalich, Wolfgang von Henko, Frank Wulff, his younger brother Stefan Wulff and Jürgen Isenbart recorded their first album Ougenweide with the producer Achim Reichel in 1973 , at that time with the singers Renée Kollmorgen and Brigitte Blunck. After Blunck had left the band before the album was released and only traded as a "guest", the singer Minne Graw joined in September of the same year . A short time later, Renée Kollmorgen split from Ougenweide, so that Graw was now the only female voice of the band.
Years 1974–1979
After the 1974 album All die because I like , which lyrically spans a bow from the Merseburg magic spells from the 9th century to Walther von der Vogelweide and Heinrich von Mügeln to Goethe , performances with well-known musicians and bands such as Fairport Convention followed in 1975 , Steeleye Span , Planxty , Amazing Blondel , Alan Stivell and Konstantin Wecker . In the same year, poet and writer Peter Rühmkorf and director Gerd Zenkel worked with the band on a television film about the life of Walther von der Vogelweide.
A year later the band released two albums. The LP Ohrenschmaus includes Im Badehaus , Horse Blessing , Soon Different and Come on Her Virgin Help Me Lament some of the band's most famous songs. In December of the same year the album Eulenspiegel was released , the first side of which only contains songs that Ougenweide contributed to a Tübingen production of Eulenspiegel . The second page, on the other hand, offers the tried and tested mixture of settings of medieval texts and lively dance styles. Totus floreo (from the medieval song collection Carmina Burana ) and Wol mich der Stunden - the adaptation of a Middle High German text by Walther von der Vogelweide with an old French melody - are among the pieces on the B-side of this album.
In 1977 and 1978 Ougenweide gave up to 180 concerts each. This cemented their reputation as a live band, which was also documented by the release of the live double album Ungecco .
The 13-part television series Documents German Daseins (director: Gerd Zenkel), which was filmed in 1978, was the musical director of the band for six episodes. This collaboration resulted in the LP Frÿheit , which for the first time does not contain any medieval texts, but rather spans the Peasants 'War of 1525 through the Thirty Years' War and the revolution of 1848 . Ougenweide also appeared in two episodes on Die Stauffer , a film by Peter von Zahn . This was followed by appearances in television music programs such as Phonzeit , Liedercircus , Kultur- and Nordschau-Magazin as well as Sesame Street . In the same year the Saarländischer Rundfunk broadcast a 45-minute portrait of the group from a live performance in the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, which was sold out with 3,000 spectators . Guest tours have brought the band to the Netherlands ( de Doelen Rotterdam Festival ), Switzerland ( Nyon Festival ), Austria , Poland , Alsace and England (as the first German band at the Cambridge Festival ) and the Soviet Union to concerts in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The highlights, however, were the concerts in Hamburg's city park on the open-air stage, where up to 4,000 people danced. In the same year, a songbook with all the notes and texts of the studio albums published so far was published by Verlag Zweausendeins .
As a result of this successful year, Ousflug was released in 1979, the first LP not produced by Achim Reichel. With another Walther von der Vogelweide setting, three dances, a social democratic text from the 19th century and some self-written pieces, Ousflug offers a kind of quintessence of the band's previous work.
resolution
After a kind of “Best of ...” double album in the “ Songbook ” series of Polydor had been released in 1979 , the band made a radical cut with the 1980 album Ja-Markt . There is not much left of “Minne Rock”, instead the record comes up with more rocky sounds to almost exclusively self-written, socially critical texts.
This mixture, of course, no longer entirely up-to-date at the beginning of the 1980s, was retained on the 1981 album Noch aber ist April and taken a long way further. This distance from the original band concept may be responsible for the fact that the LP sold so badly that Ougenweide lost her record deal. However, this did not prevent your record company from releasing the compilation songs from 9 centuries in 1983 . On the four LPs the most important songs of the group can be found in chronological order according to their textual origin.
The success of the band continued to decline in the following years, which Frank Wulff later explained on the one hand with the changed audience taste, but on the other hand with the increasingly diverging musical preferences of the individual band members. Despite everything, the band continued to tour until they broke up in 1985 after a farewell tour.
In the following years, the musicians pursued different projects - some of them to this day -: the Wulff brothers and Wolfgang von Henko wrote film and theater music, Olaf Casalich worked, among other things, as a drum teacher, and every now and then they all work as guest musicians for other musicians . Frank Wulff was a permanent member of the accompanying band of Etta Scollo and the Achim Reichel Band (Wilder Wassermann Tour 2004 and Volxlernour 2006). Operated next to Frank and Stefan Wulff since 1985 in the former rehearsal rooms of Ougenweide the O'ton studio where, for example, Blumfeld her album Forbidden fruit produced, Lou Reed , the overture to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg listed rock opera TIME ROCKER grossed, Bert Jansch , Pentangle who have been passionate about Tiger Lillies and many other musicians. Jürgen Isenbart ran a cooking show on the Hamburg Open Channel , for which he was nominated for “Raab of the Week” in 1999 in Stefan Raab's show TV total . Minne Graw recorded some self-written songs in 1986/87 with the help of Frank and Stefan Wulff, but she could not find a record label to publish them, and then withdrew completely from the music business. The solo recordings were only released on CD in 2010 under the title Ausgeträum . As a guest singer she was heard in 1993 in the song Mermaid In The Rain by The Perc Meets The Hidden Gentleman.
comeback
In 1996 the band came together with a new line-up - Minne Graw and Jürgen Isenbart were no longer there. Together with the Tessera string quartet and the a cappella quintet Time Of Roses , the album SOL, audibly influenced by esoteric ambient sounds, was created . Although a few sporadic concerts followed the release (including at the Nuremberg Bardentreffen ), the reunification of the band turned out to be a project of short duration.
When Frank Wulff and Sabine Maria Reiss got to know each other, the idea for a new comeback of the group arose in 2000. An intensive collaboration developed, which resulted in new concerts in 2006 and the new album Herzsprung in 2010 .
The compilation Wol me of the hour with previously unpublished live recordings from 1970 to 1985, published in September 2004, was quite successful. To present the live sampler, the band got together for a one-time performance in a Hamburg club with the original line-up. A year later, Ouwe was released , also with unreleased live recordings.
Because of the great response to the two live CDs, the Bear Family Records label decided to re- release the original albums on CD in 2006 and 2007. In addition, Ougenweide can be heard on the bonus CD of the best-of album Kein Blick zurück from In Extremo in 2006 with a new version of Merseburg's magic spells - Minne Graw was a guest, although the band was already with Sabine Maria Reiss at that time had found a new singer.
Concerts with the new line-up took place in December 2006 in the Music Hall Worpswede , in Oberhausen as well as at the Burg Herzberg Festival and in Weinheim in July 2007. In 2008 there were further appearances on Norderney and in Mosbach-Neckarelz . Most recently, Ougenweide played old and new songs for the second time on September 12, 2009 at the Festival Mediaval in Selb . This was also the last concert with Frank Wulff.
In March 2007, appeared in the minstrels publishing a Walther von der Vogelweide sampler entitled Tell me ieman: waz is Minne? , for whom Ougenweide contributed a new version of their classic Ouwe with the new line-up and accompanied the minstrel Hans Hegner on two songs. In 2008 Ougenweide singer Olaf Casalich was awarded the “Honorary Prize of Singers and Minstrels” for his life's work as a pioneer of the medieval rock scene at the minstrel competition at Trifels Castle .
Frank Wulff died on March 19, 2010.
On April 23, 2010, the new studio album Herzsprung was released for the 40th anniversary of the band . Apart from conventional instruments such as guitar, bass and drums, unusual instruments such as conch horns , kinsho koto , dutar , claviolin , monochord , launedda , fiddle , nyckelharpa and waldoline are used. In a leis and sad song , a text that Mary Stuart is credited with some of the hamburgers are Museum of Arts and Crafts collected musical sculptures ( Cristal Baschet ) to hear the French brothers Baschet.
Singer and percussionist Olaf Casalich and Stefan Wulff are part of the original line-up of the band. New additions are the singer Sabine Maria Reiss, the guitarist Hinrich Dageför, the drummer Martin Engelbach and the woodwind player Krzysztof Gediga.
On April 5, 2015, founding member Jürgen Isenbart died as a result of a long-term lung disease.
reception
On June 5, 2010, for the 40th anniversary of the band, there was a tribute concert at Falkenstein Castle in the Harz Mountains with artists from the medieval music scene , including Die Irrlichter , Arundo, Holger Schäfer, Knud Seckel, Marcus van Langen and Spielleut Irregang. In addition, two tribute CDs were released, an album Tribute to Ougenweide - Minne, Rock and Zaubersprüche and the maxi CD Merseburger Zaubersprüche . Here also acted In Extremo , Duivelspack , Oni Wytars , Triskilian and Poeta Magica with.
In 2011 ASP covered the song Bald different as a tribute to Frank Wulff. It appeared on the single Wechselbalg and a remix of it was released on the single Icy Reality .
occupation
- Frank Wulff-Raven († March 19, 2010): flute, alto flute, bass, tenor, alto, soprano and sopranino recorder, crooked horns, Indian metal flute, Arabic snarling flute, Chinese snarling flute, Chinese membrane flute, lotus flute, shawm , Tin whistle , shell horn , bombards, musette , alto saxophone, clarinettino, didgeridoo , jew's harp , acoustic guitar, electric guitar , electric 12-string guitar, mandolin, mandola, lute, banjo, bouzouki, sitar, saz, dulcimer, mandolin banjo, Zitôle , hurdy-gurdy, kalimba , harp zither, singing saw , buzzers , grand piano, piano, Indian harmonium, bells, percussion, music box, waterphone , vocals (1970–2010)
- Olaf Casalich : vocals, drums, percussion, congas , bongos , cymbals, cymbals , timpani, maracas , tabla , triangle, tubular bells , snare drum, gong, bandana, djembe
- Stefan Wulff : E-Bass, Phaser Bass, Double Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Effector Gel, Harmonium , Indian Harmonium, E-Piano, Piano, Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Psalter Synthesizer, Accordion, Zither, Cabasa , Talking Drum, Marimba , Percussion, Drum Programming , Harmonica, vocals
- Wolfgang von Henko : acoustic guitar , concert guitar, western guitar, octave guitar , electric guitar, MIDI guitar , electric bow guitar, mandolin, sample percussion, programming, vocals (until 1997)
- Jürgen Isenbart († April 5, 2015): Glockenspiel, xylophone, marimba, vibraphone , percussion, drums, bells, bells, tubular bells, timpani, tap dance, singing (until 1985)
- Minne Graw (* 1952): vocals, harmonium, harpsichord, piano, grand piano, electric piano, Fender Rhodes, organ, positive , string organ , string ensemble, synthesizer, harp zither, marimba, soprano recorder (1973–1985). Solo LP Ausgeträum (1985, release 2010)
- Brigitte Blunck : vocals, choir, percussion, bones (until 1973)
- Renee Kollmorgen : vocals, choir, percussion, triangle (until 1973)
- Stefan Rager : drums, percussion, marimba, programming, bells, toy piano, harp zither, bodhran, udu, vocals (1996)
- Sabine Maria Reiss : vocals, monochord, singing saw, recorder (member since 2000, concerts since 2006)
- Hinrich Dageför : acoustic guitar, electric guitar, fiddle, kalimba (concerts since 2006)
- Martin Engelbach : drums, violin, glockenspiel (concerts since 2006)
- Krzysztof Gediga : harmonium, accordion, clarinet, bass clarinet (concerts since 2006)
Discography
Studio albums
- 1973: Ougenweide
- 1974: All because I like
- 1976: A feast for the ears
- 1976: Eulenspiegel
- 1978: Freedom
- 1979: excursion
- 1980: Yes market
- 1981: But it's still April
- 1996: Sol
- 2010: heart leap
Concert albums
- 1977: Casual , double LP
- 2004: Wol me to the hour
- 2005: Ouwe was
Compilations
- 1979: Songbook Ougenweide , double LP
- 1983: songs from 9 centuries
- 2007: Walther von der Vogelweide - Tell me: what is Minne? , with Poeta Magica, Hans Hegner, Anno Domini, Ioculatores, Musiktheater Dingo and many others
Re-releases
- 1988: Songbook Ougenweide
- 2006: Ougenweide / All because I like
- 2006: Ohrenschmaus / Eulenspiegel
- 2007: Frÿheit / Ousflug
- 2007: Yes market / But it's still April
- 2007: informal
Web links
- Web presence of the band Ougenweide
- Ougenweide on MusicBrainz (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ougenweide 1973–1985 on minnegraw.de
- ↑ Obituary on minnesang.de
- ↑ We trust our dear friend Jürgen Isenbart on sommer-in-hamburg.de
- ↑ Soon different on aspswelten.de
- ↑ Minne Graw / Ausgeträum on rocktimes.de