The sheet

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The sheet
General information
Genre (s) Fusion , art rock
founding 1985
resolution 1996
Website http://www.the-blech.com
Last occupation
Trumpet , vocals , guitar , lyrics
 Rupert Volz (since 1985)
Violin , violektra, piano
Helmut Bieler-Wendt (1989–1994)
Jens Volk (1992–1994)
Drums , objects, marimba , sampler , percussion
Hubl Greiner (since 1985)
former members
Bass, keyboards, samplers, vocals
 Therofal (1986-1989)
violin
 Achim "Bagdad" Schmidt (1987)
Bass, vocals
 Sandra Coutinho (1991)
Accordion , vocals, piano, trombone , euphonium , sousaphone
Shirley Anne Hofmann (1990-1993)

The Blech was a German fusion band that existed around Hubl Greiner and Rupert Volz from 1985 to 1996. In their music, the band tried a synthesis of avant-garde rock , set pieces from Brecht / Weill , jazz structures , Dadaism and (sometimes) subtle texts.

history

The band quickly became an insider tip because of their preference for absurd language games with a spoken language they developed themselves. She dedicated her first album to Hugo Ball . According to their own statement, it was about “breaking habits in order to create fantasy spaces”. Musically, too, their "often noisy, cacophonic , oriental-influenced, free jazz splintered sounds, New York dance rhythms and nonsense lyrics" songs didn't fit into any drawer.

The Blech toured for 12 years through Western Europe, North and South America, Canada, Japan, the Eastern Bloc countries, Russia and Siberia. The group performed at rock, punk , jazz and new music festivals as well as (with Joachim Krebs and Tilman Küntzel) at the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt. In 1987 and 1992 she was invited to the documenta .

Discography

  • The Blech (LP, Today 1985, with Hendrik Weissmann, Eckehard Reinbacher, Klaus Burger, Mike Robertson)
  • Zip Zip (LP, today 1987)
  • I wanted to cut up my shoes (LP / CD, Today 1989, with Edgar Hofmann, Zé Eduardo Nazário , Stephan Lamby )
  • Love songs (CD, Jaro 1992)
  • 85-91 (CD, Jaro 1992, compilation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b "The Blech": Joke and Avantgarde Der Spiegel , January 18, 1988