Planet Claire

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Planet Claire
General information
origin Bexbach , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Genre (s) Synth pop
Founding members
Drums, percussion, samples
 Arno Kammermeier
Vocals, keyboards, guitar, organ
 Walter Merziger
Live and session members
producer
 Peter Hayo

Planet Claire was a pop duo from Bexbach in the Saarland .

Band history

Walter Merziger (vocals, keyboards, guitar, organ) and Arno Kammermeier (drums, percussion, samples, background vocals) founded the band Indian Sum together with Claus Brandenburger at the end of the 1980s. Under this name they released the singles Faceless (1988) and Wonderland (1989).

Shortly afterwards, Merziger and Kammermeier founded Planet Claire. Their band name was derived from the title of a song by the B-52s on their debut album. The band was mainly influenced by Depeche Mode , Pet Shop Boys and Tears for Fears .

Together with producer Peter Hayo they created, first under this band name, later also under many other alternative names, first synth-pop , later trance and eurodance tracks. With Planet Claire they got a record deal with the EMI sub-label Electrola .

In the early 1990s they had a chart success in the German charts with the single Heaven in Your Hands .

They hired Thomas Blug for the guitar parts of their self-titled debut album . With the following releases from their debut album Planet Claire , the band had less success. The second album After the Fire was also largely unsuccessful.

After a restructuring of the label in the mid-1990s, they lost their record deal and broke up shortly afterwards.

After the dissolution

After the end of Planet Clair, the two main actors Merziger and Kammermeier continued their collaboration and founded the techno duo Booka Shade , with which they became a fixture on the European electric music scene.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Heaven in Your Hands
  DE 63 05/25/1992 (9 weeks)

Albums

  • 1992: Planet Claire ( Electrola )
  • 1995: After the Fire (Electrola)

Singles

  • 1988: Faceless (released under the band name Indian Summer)
  • 1989: Wonderland (released under the band name Indian Summer)
  • 1991: Heaven in Your Hands
  • 1992: Memories Fade
  • 1992: Satellite Heart
  • 1994: Secret Fire
  • 1995: Say the World

Other project names

  • ! Mira !, Dajango, Electric Fruit Orchestra, Fake Divine, Futura, Goldpeople, Km / h, Opus 808, Perky Park, Superstring, Temple of Light, Tony Travolta, Zulu,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Indian Summer (5). In: Discogs. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ TOBIAS RAPP: Our world, our music . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 24, 2005, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 25 ( taz.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  3. ↑ A Quick Chat with Booka Shade. In: Berlin Loves You. May 7, 2014. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b Booka Shade interview (part 1) - Video Dailymotion. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Bexbach-Berlin axis. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Planet Claire - Planet Claire. In: Discogs. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Chart tracking: Charts DE . Retrieved February 28, 2019.