Singspiel (band)
| Singspiel | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock |
| founding | 1972 |
| Current occupation | |
| Wolfgang Klumb | |
Vocals, guitar |
Wolfgang Leyh |
Vocals, guitar, bass, cello
|
Jörg Suckow |
Singspiel was a German folk rock band from the 1970s.
history
The Singspiel group, founded in 1972, consisted of the musicians Wolfgang Klumb, Wolfgang Leyh and Jörg Suckow . She mainly played contemporary German folk songs , but also her own pieces and cover versions . The hallmarks were often polyphonic singing and the predominant use of acoustic instruments. All band members played guitar , Klumb also bass and tambourine , Suckow also bass or electric bass and cello and Leyh electric guitar . Guest musicians on the albums were Andreas Osterrieth, Rolf Kilchling and Peter Beyer.
Two long-playing records were released : in 1975 Singspiel and two years later Before the Beginning of the Rainy Days . The group was involved as a background singer on Hannes Wader's 1975 album Volkssänger .
Jörg Suckow also played with Hannes Wader during the same period, he was involved in his albums Der Rattenfänger (1974), Plattdeutsche Lieder (1974), Volkssänger (1975) and Wiederwegs (1979) as a cellist and partly also as a bassist. On the recordings for Klaus Hoffmann's album What remains? (1976) and What am I doing in this city? (1978) Suckow (guitar, vocals) also took part. He was present at the Folk Friends meeting in Struckum and can be heard on the albums Folk Friends (1979) and Folk Friends 2 (1981) made there.
Discography
- 1975: Singspiel (album; RCA Victor PPL 1-4056)
- 1977: Before the rainy days began (album; RCA Victor PL 28303)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Klumb at les-sensibles.de, accessed on August 22, 2015
- ↑ Singspiel at krautrock-musik Zirkus.de, accessed on August 22, 2015
- ↑ Singspiel - Before The Beginning Of The Rainy Days at discogs.com, accessed on August 22, 2015