Plankton (band)

plankton
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1997
Website	http://www.plankton.ch/
Current occupation
singing	Reto Karli
guitar	Philipp Kräutli
Keyboard	Stefan Bosshart
bass	Vincent Hofmann
Drums	Dominik Deuber (from 2007)
former members
Drums	Matthias Kräutli (until 2007)

Plankton is a Winterthur indie pop band that was founded in 1997 by five high school students from the Rychenberg Cantonal School and plays their songs in Swiss German .

history

The band made their first public appearance in 1998 in Winterthur in the Alte Kaserne. Since then, Plankton has been giving concerts on a regular basis . The five became well known throughout Switzerland with the song “ Die wo nid chönd Tschutte ” (Those who can't play football) from their album “Hallo Erde”. The video for this was shot in the Schützenwiese stadium , Bernard Thurnheer has a guest appearance as a commentator. The band's singer, Reto Karli, presented his solo project Karli in December 2015 in the Theater am Gleis .

Discography

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Riddle king   CH 32 03/29/2009 (1 week)

• 1999: Plankton (EP, Mini-CD, in-house production)
• 2002: Favorite songs (album, CD, published by MUVE)
• 2005: Hallo Erde (album, CD, published by MUVE)
• 2009: Rätselkönig (album, CD, published by BOXTØN)
• 2010: Electronic (remix album, CD, published by BOXTØN)

Sampler contributions

• 1999: Skampler 4
• 2001: Keep on rockin (Gaswerk)
• 2010: Winti kicks Winti rocks (FCW)

Web links

• Official website of the band
• Plankton at discogs , accessed December 27, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Coucou - Kulturmagazin Winterthur: Clear the stage for Karli. (No longer available online.) In: coucoumagazin.ch. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; accessed on December 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Charts CH