Thirsty Moon
Thirsty Moon is a German Krautrock band from the 1970s. It is assigned to the area of jazz-rock fusion .
history
Beginnings
The brothers Norbert and Jürgen Drogies began to be active in the Bremen "beat music scene" in the 1960s. The constellation at that time was such that Jürgen played the guitar and Norbert, who was only 15 years old when he first appeared in "Lila Eule", was behind the drums. The brothers' first band was called The Outcasts . In addition to the mostly usual cover versions at the time, some of the first own pieces were played.
founding
After a short interlude as DRP (= Drogies-Ranwig-Pickert) and a theater project, Thirsty Moon was founded in the early 1970s . In the original line-up, they were Norbert Drogies, Jürgen Drogies, Michael Kobs, Harald Konietzko, Erwin Noack, Willi Pape, and Hans-Werner Ranwig. Shortly before recording the second album, Ranwig left the band, guitarist and singer Siegfried Pisalla joined the group and Andreas Helms, who had previously played bass with DRP and Tomorrow Too, temporarily replaced Harald Konietzko on bass.
Konietzko and Pisalla worked together in the Bremen formation “Tomorrow Too” from 1969-71, which can be regarded as the region's first significant prog rock band. The self-written song material of this band was able to convince the producers of Nektar in 1970 to offer the band a record deal, which the band treated hesitantly and was not able to redeem on time due to personnel turbulence. They played in renowned clubs such as the "Jaguar" in Herford, in which Jimi Hendrix had previously performed several times.
Saxophonist and flautist Willi Pape worked in an advertising agency and therefore knew the beer brand Thirsty Moon, on which the band name was based. Not everyone understood this acoustically, that's why "Thursday Moon" was sometimes said. Thirsty Moon only played his own compositions. The changing line-ups brought jazz influence into the music at times.
Brain and Sky Records
In the early 1970s, the record company Metronome founded the Brain label, especially for German groups. The music that was published here was nicknamed Krautrock . There were among others Jane , Grobschnitt , Neu! , Scorpions and also Thirsty Moon.
Four Thirsty Moon albums have been released on Brain, the fifth on Sky Records , a sixth, the live album from archive material, in 2006 on Long Hair Music .
The first album, entitled Thirsty Moon , was recorded and mixed by the sound engineer and producer Conny Plank , who has worked with Ultravox and the Eurythmics , among others .
Numerous line-up changes followed on the first album. The third album Blitz was composed and recorded by Norbert and Jürgen Drogies alone.
Recent developments
In November 2006, LongHair Music began a series of re-releases of the Thirsty Moon albums on CD . In addition, a live recording from 1975 was published for the first time. The CDs contain well-stocked booklets and additional bonus tracks that are not included on the LPs. In 2011, Sireena Records released the CD "Lunar Eclipse" with a live recording of a concert from 1976.
Founding member Jürgen Drogies has made several releases with his new formation Back to the Moon since 2007 .
Discography
- 1972: Thirsty Moon
- 1974: You'll Never Come Back
- 1975: Blitz
- 1975: I'll Be Back - Live '75 (released 2006)
- 1976: A Real Good Time
- 1976: Lunar Eclipse - Live at Stagge's Hotel 1976 (released 2011)
- 1981: Starchaser
Web links
- Thirsty Moon at Allmusic (English)
- Official website