Waldo Karpenkiel

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Waldemar "Waldo" Karpenkiel (born February 8, 1948 in Rinteln ) is a German percussionist and drummer from Krefeld . His most famous bands are collective and supersession .

Act

Karpenkiel was born in Rinteln in Lower Saxony and grew up in Stadthagen . Karpenkiel's musical career finally began in the Rhineland, where he founded the beat band " The Generals " in 1964 together with his twin brother Jürgen (called "Jogi") . While his brother played the bass , Waldo sat on the drums . At that time still self-taught , he took lessons from international teachers such as Cees See , Peter Giger and Tony Inzalaco . In the meantime Jogi Karpenkiel had joined the Phantoms , a Krefeld predecessor of Kraftwerk around Ralf Hütter .

Collective (1970–1978, 1988)

In 1970, Waldo and Jogi Karpenkiel, now based in Krefeld , founded the collective project together with Jürgen Havix and Klaus Dapper . The band is considered one of the first German Krautrock bands and experimented with self-made effect devices , electrically amplified zithers and extensive improvisations . The Sounds wrote about their self-titled debut album Kollektiv in 1973:

“They are friendly, very transparent melodies. In "Compressed Air", for example, a pressed guitar scrapes monotonous, eternally identical microfigures, overlaid with simple improvisations. The group achieves variations either by changing the tempo or by changing styles: A theme that was played rock-like is immediately brought into a sluggish blues style. At times, the collective reminds us of Kraftwerk. "

- Jürgen Frey : in sounds

The record received a nomination for the German Record Prize 1973, it is (like its successors) received internationally to this day. Numerous tours follow (often with Sweet Smoke and Kraan, among others ) and other recordings, which can be assigned to experimental jazz and krautrock, with changing guest musicians. In 1975 his brother Jogi (from now on with Guru Guru ) and Havix left the band, Jochen Schrumpf and Detlef Wiederhöft joined, this formation existed until 1978, ten years later a new collective album with the Swedish jazz bassist was created Jonas Hellborg .

Supersession (1979–1987), Too Funky (since 2014)

In 1979 he founded the Supersession project , a live session band consisting of five wind instruments, two percussionists, two keyboards as well as guitar, bass and drums. Three albums are created, live tours and TV appearances (including "Lieder und Menschen") are completed. Members of Supersession included Meinhard Puhl (bass), Christian Brockmeier (keyboard), Tommy Goldschmidt (percussion), Reiner Winterschladen (trumpet) and Wolf Escher (trumpet). In total, over sixty different musicians from all over the world have played at Supersession over the years, with the American singer Wayne Bartlett or the German soul singer Jeff Cascaro taking over the vocals at times . Supersession received positive reviews from home and abroad for their long-playing records, and the last official concert followed in 1987. In 2011 there was a brief reunion at the Domicil jazz club in Dortmund. The band project "Too Funky" has existed since 2014, which, in addition to Karpenkiel, includes Klaus Dapper and Jürgen Magdziak, two old Supersession companions and also plays Supersession songs live . Andreas Hammen, Sebastian Dörries, Bolle Diekmann and Henning Nierstenhöfer also belong or have belonged to the band.

Further band projects

Waldo Karpenkiel is involved as a percussionist and drummer on various other recordings, including albums by Gert Haucke and Henning Venske , Bröselmaschine (together with Helge Schneider ) and Marie Germany . In total, Karpenkiel has worked on over a hundred record and CD productions, and has contributed music to a number of plays, art exhibitions and dance performances. Many performances ran under the project name " Drummerturgie ", a percussionist quartet around Karpenkiel that has been active since the beginning of the 1990s with changing line-ups, currently including Igor Krasovsky, Christoph Haberer and Michael Peters-Thöne. In addition, there is a project under the name of "The Worst Band in the World" around Karpenkiel, Jochen Contzen and Georg Mahr, in which the trio interprets classic hits and rock.

Regional commitment

Karpenkiel has also made an outstanding contribution to the regional cultural landscape. He is a founding member of the "Neue Musik Krefeld eV" association and the "Krefeld Musicians Initiative", which still exists today, and is co-author of the books " Wer beatet mehr? " And " Krefeld rocks the Seventies " (both published by Leporello Verlag), in which the Krefeld music scene in the 1960s and 1970s are illuminated. He wrote a guest contribution to the book " 50 Years of Jazzkeller Krefeld " on the occasion of the jubilee of the Jazzkeller (2008), the fourth oldest jazz club in Germany. This work was also published by Leporello-Verlag. His birthday has been celebrated regularly for several years with a live session of various Krefeld musicians and bands lasting several hours in the "Blauen Engel" bar.

Others

Since the 1980s Karpenkiel has also been working as a drum and percussion teacher at various institutions such as the Dortmund Music School, the Remscheid Academy , the VHS Duisburg or the Werkhaus eV Krefeld. Most recently, in winter 2017, he contributed a song to the sampler "Music Made in Krefeld", on which a total of 23 Krefeld musicians and bands such as Fog Joggers , Horst Hansen Trio and Björn Gögge can be found.

Publications (selection)

Discography

as a solo musician:

  • 2017: Music Made in Krefeld (sampler contribution)

with collective:

  • 1973: collective
  • 1973: German Rock Scene
  • 1973: SWF Sessions Volume 5
  • 1973: German Rock Scene (sampler contribution)
  • 1974: Krautrock
  • 1988: Kollektiv Featuring Jonas Hellborg (with Jonas Hellborg )
  • 1989: Musik In Duisburg, Part 2 - Rock & Jazz (Sampler contribution)
  • 1990: ITM On Acid (Sampler contribution)
  • 2005: Live 1973 (Live Bootleg )
  • 2007: Krautrockmusic for your Brain Vol. 2 (Sampler contribution)
  • 2010: German Electronic Music 1972–1983 (Sampler contribution)

with supersession:

  • 1980: tour
  • 1982: Welcome And Alive
  • 1984: Supersession Featuring Wayne Bartlett (with Wayne Barlett )

with crumbling machine:

  • 1978: I Feel Fine

with catamaran:

  • 1978: Café Florian

with the group Impulse:

  • 1978: I want to give you a future and hope
  • 1978: Passing on
  • 1978: All buds open
  • 1980: We don't have that at home
  • 1982: Biblical play songs on the Misereor Hunger Cloth from Haiti

with Gert Haucke & Henning Venske:

  • 1979: Papa, Charly Said ...

with smooth madness:

  • 1980: pure madness

with Marie Germany:

  • 1984: Mrs. Trude

with Rolf Lebeda & His Rock'N Rolf Band:

  • 1987: Live in Düsseldorf

with Tchalo:

  • 1990: Tchalo

with teddy technology and the stunner:

  • 1992: Teddyllac

with The Karpenkiels:

  • 2002: Radio Mali

with Teddy and the strangers:

  • 2005: Every Day Rock'n Roll

As an author

  • Wolfgang Hellfeier, Waldo Karpenkiel, Ulrich Pudelko: Who beats more? Leporello, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936783-14-8 .
  • Günter Holthoff, Mojo Mendiola : 50 years of the Jazzkeller . Leporello, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936783-29-2 .
  • Wolfgang Hellfeier, Waldo Karpenkiel, Ulrich Pudelko: Krefeld rocks the seventies: The live music scene of the 1970s in Krefeld . Leporello, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936783-43-8 .

literature

  • Günter Ehnert, Detlef Kinsler: Rock in Germany: Lexicon of German rock groups and interpreters . Taurus-Verlag, 1984, ISBN 978-3-922542-16-2 .
  • Steven Freeman: The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany . Audion Publications, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9529506-0-8 .
  • Christine Flender, Ansgar Jerrentrup, Uwe Husslein: Tief im Westen - Rock and Pop in NRW . 1999, ISBN 978-3-89705-151-5 .
  • Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography . North Country Distributors, 2000, ISBN 978-1-881993-22-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collective. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ © 2013 Knut Habicht: Culture in Krefeld | Krefeld music scene. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sounds # 60: German Groups - Collective . February 1974.
  4. ^ Sounds: Platten 66-77, 1827 reviews . Two thousand and one, 1979.
  5. ↑ LONG HAIR | Collective "Album 1973" December 2007, LHC 64. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ KOLLEKTIV - collective (1973). Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Supersession - Tour. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  8. ↑ bassfunk55: Supersession - Don't You Like It. November 13, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ domicil Dortmund · Live Music Club & Bar · Jazz, World Music, Avantgarde - Program. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Back to the 1970s with Waldo Karpenkiel. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  11. ^ Mojo Mendiola: Krefeld: Six ambassadors of true funk. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Lutz Schütz: Oldies with a difference. Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Klaus M. Schmidt: "Music Made in Krefeld": A disc to be proud of . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . December 13, 2017 ( wz.de [accessed December 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Karpenkiel, Waldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karpenkiel, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German percussionist and drummer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln