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- 24. November 2007
 Kraan
is now a trio.
Peter Wolbrandt has long wanted to explore a more free and less
chord-bound style without keyboards. So right now Kraan will
perform as a trio with just the original 3 homies
from Ulm.
- New live dates (both Kraan & Hattler)
- The
Strawbery Bricks Guide To Progressive Rock now available,
the official book from progressiverock.com.
Kraan must be in it.
- Old news, but I have never mentioned the videos at Kraan.de:
Konzert in Tüttlingen 1988, Filme aus Wintrup.
- Hellmut Hattler has also played on 'Lu Lafayette's Wolfsmond:
Auf heisser Spur' 1990.
Rare
album and expensive at Ebay
Bottom Text:
"...und veröffentlichte 1991 mit "Auf heißer
Spur" ein weiteres Album, auf dem u.a. der Bassist Helmut
Hattler (KRAAN) zu hören ist."
- 7. November
 It
has been reported - Kraan: 'Psychedelic
Man' is now also available at I-tunes.
- Liliental - Liliental 1976
reissued on CD for the first time.
Dieter Moebius (ARP, guitar, percussion), Asmus Tietchens (Moog,
piano), Okko Bekker (ARP, keyboards, percussion, vocals, guitar),
Conny Plank (ARP, guitar, vocals), Johannes
Pappert (alto sax, drums, bass, flute), Helmut Hattler (bass)
First time ever on legitimately CD from master tapes for
this Brain title!
"Electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia)
wanted to record an album
 together
with his musical soul-mates, Okko Bekker and Asmus Tietchens,
at Conny Plank’s studio in 1976. In the event, Plank himself
even participated in the recordings as a musician. Two other
musicians also joined the fold: bassist Helmut Hattler and
saxophonist Johannes Pappert (both from Kraan) had just
finished working on an album and were happy to stay on at the
studio. Suddenly, there were six musicians with six different
personalities who had never worked together before. But what
could easily have gone wrong turned into a great document of
electronic music, which was rather atypical for its time and
conveyed a certain lightness, revealing complex structures on
closer inspection."
- Eclipsed-Magazins
Instrumental Poll: Kraan's Borgward
is on place 51 (but place 4 of the German's Instrumentals
- behind Klaus Doldinger, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze).
Nam Nam is on the readers poll as nr. 13 (!), that is the 2-best
German Group's Instrumental (behind Tangerine Dream).
Die
Hundert Besten Deutschen Platten: Von "Made in Germany"
ein Musikexpress-Buch (2001)
Another funny list where Kraan takes place nr. 54, and as usual
it is 'Kraan live' 75 (kind of trivial choice, there are many
other great Kraan albums, but on this list there is only the
one). BTW: Boney M and Hellmut Lotti are not on the list. 
- 28. Oktober
-
Musik
vom anderen Stern - 35 Jahre Kraan
 (322
kb pdf)
Interview with Peter Wolbrandt by Michael Loesl.
It is from the brand new issue of GRAND
GUITARS, a german magazine, which will be in the stores
throughout November and December. By permisson, so Support the
magazine by buying it.
- 22. Oktober
21. Oktober
- 12. september
- Erratum:
Am Sonntag, dem 16. September wird Hellmut Hattler ab
21Uhr für zwei volle Stunden Studiogast
bei Volker Rebell (Hessischer Rundfunk/hr3) sein. In der ersten
Stunde dreht sich alles um Kraut und KRAAN, die zweite Stunde
ist dem sich stark wandelnden Musikbiz am Beispiel HATTLER und
dem am 12.10. erscheinenden HATTLER Livealbum “Live Cuts”
gewidmet.
9. September
- Reviews of Kraan: Psychedelic man:
www.musicheadquarter.de/
This reviewer is psychic. He can hear keyboards where no keyboards
are (Silver buildings).
www.progarchives.com/
- this one listened.
- "Allein und Gemeinsam"
Deutsche Rock-Helden auf hr3-Rebell-Tour
Motto: "Mach dein eigenes Ding, und mach was mit andern
in der Gruppe." veröffentlicht als
1 . Doppel-DVD
2. CD
http://www.volker-rebell.de/neu/alleinUndGemeinsam.html
- Am Sonntag, dem 16. September wird Hellmut
Hattler ab 20Uhr für zwei
volle Stunden Studiogast bei Volker Rebell (Hessischer Rundfunk/hr3)
sein. In der ersten Stunde dreht sich alles um KRAAN, die zweite
Stunde ist dann HATTLER und dem demnächst erscheinenden
Livealbum “Live Cuts” gewidmet.
- Very
positive review in German of Hattler: Live Cuts
- Max Hattler: Nochmal KRAAN
super8 spass, weil’s so schoen ist, diesmal in Holland: Remixing
the Past Live AV Set @ Media Art Friesland Festival, 28 Sept
2007
http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl
.
- KRAAN - Heimweh nach Übersee
(Reprise)
Online again.
It has been missing in cyberspace for some time, but Reinhard
Mährländer has just given me permission to publish
it here.
Large essay in German. Analysis, perspectives, comparisons,
even with classical music, and bits of scores, this is perhaps
of special interest for the musician - in German.
" Ein persönliches , musikwissenschaftliches Essay
über eine deutsche Rockgruppe von Reinhard Mährländer"
Sarah's Ritt durch den Schwarzwald
- Hattler - new
tourdates.
 21.
August
- The
concert of September
- Kraan at Kaliberg 9. september. More
info .
Also some more info in the previous post (10. august).
- Kraan
in Hörerlebnis!
- Das
Magazin Für High Fidelity www.hoererlebnis.de
- Nice rumour: Peter Wolbrandt’s
“So weit” will be released by EMI Germany, sometime in the future.
But probably not this year. There’s also talk about coupling
it with other re-releases of Alto's first and Hellmut’s “Bassball”-album
(which also currently is OOP).
Lets hope EMI and the musicbusiness gets better days in the
future.
- 10. August
Radio sendung KRAAN im deutschlandradio Berlin
am 29.08.07:
Kraan Live - Quartier Latin, Berlin 1974 :
"Wir heißen Kraaan und wir fangen jetzt aaaan".
Mit diesem schlichten Terminus eröffnete Bassist
Helmut Hattler 1971 die ersten öffentlichen Auftritte
der Deutschrock-Institution. Und er tut es gelegentlich
heute noch; denn "Kraan" bestehen nach längeren
Unterbrechungen immer mal wieder für den begrenzten
Zeitraum einer Studioarbeit oder Tournee.
Und noch heute verstehen sie es - wie seinerzeit im Berliner
Quartier Latin im Oktober 1974 - wie keine zweite nationale
Formation, stilistische Grenzen zu überwinden, um
aus unterschiedlichen musikalischen Ressourcen eine eigenständige
Ausdrucksform zu entwickeln. |
Davon zeugt dieser Mitschnitt aus dem legendären
Club an der Potsdamer Straße - nicht mehr und nicht
weniger.
In Concert: Kraan Live - Quartier Latin, Berlin 1974,
Moderation: Christian Graf.
29.08.2007
· 20:03 Uhr - http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/inconcert/647531/
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- Wenn Schon Kraut, dann bitte Krautfunk !
(jazzthing
July 2007) Page
1 - Page
2 (heavy graphics)
Support the magazine, buy it.
- German review of
Psychedelic man (NRZ am sontag, april 07)
- Holiday am Marterhorn vielleicht mit Gipfelsturm.
Kraan plays here
on 9. september (see events)
 A
blast from the past: A review
of Peter Wolbrandt's 'So weit' from Stereoplay 1982 (In
German)
- The HATTLER music video clip "Nachtmaschine" (directed
by Max Hattler) just won “Best Experimental Film at Muuuvi
Film Festival, Romania, 2007”! www.muuuvi.ro
- 21.
June
- Something has been cut up again in the Hattler laboratorium:
New Hattler album slightly on its way (october) !-
Live Cuts
- Saturday, 23.06, 8pm to 10pm: a KRAAN (&
HATTLER) - special (with interviews) at www.okerwelle.de
- live stream in CD quality!
the playlist:
| hour 1
Dakkar 3:53
Alles Gute 3:09
Psychedelic Man 4:15
Vollgas Ahoi 6:02 (Live 2001 )
Let's Take A Ride 5:17 ( Dito )
Borgward 8:31 (Dito )
Yaqui Yagua 7:19 (Dito )
Luft und Liebe 3:37 |
hour 2
Hattler - Roundhouse 4:35
Hattler - Didgeridoo 3:51
De Winkel / Hattler - Lilo & Max 6:16
Tab Two - Whatchagonnado 4:36
Come Back 3:02
Colourcave 6:44
Disbanned Shake 3:56
Feierabend 6:15 |
 12.
June
 8.
May
- 23. March (second and extended update)
 Flyday:
The new Kraan album 'Psychedelic
man' & 'Live at Finkenbach festival' is finally available
!
bassball will not have it, but You can order it here:
Standard Version: www.Amazon.de
and www.JPC.de
Special Edition: (cd + bonus dvd)
www.Amazon.de and
www.JPC.de
Downloads:
www.Musicload.de (with bonus tune)
- Some lyrics from Psychedelic man are added to the lyrics
section.
- YouTube:
Hallo Ja ja, I dont know 1975,
Nam
Nam at Nearfest USA 2003 (20 seconds)
- Max Hattler will play his kraan-centric 'remixing
the past' VJ set at the Big Chill, one of the major UK music festivals,
taking place 3-5 august 2007!
www.bigchill.net
Www.maxhattler.com/vj
- “The Big Flow” review: http://80bpm.net/articles.php?id=579
Pulsujacy bas elektroniczny, melodyjny, doskonale brzmiacy bas
gitarowy, soulowo-jazzowy wokal kobiety o niskim, delikatnie chropowatym
glosie i niebanalnie wywazone akcenty rytmiczne w perkusji - tak
rozpoczyna sie "Waiting", utwór otwierajacy najnowszy
album Hellmuta Hattlera (polowa nieistniejacego
juz Tab Two) - "The Big Flow".
- http://www.kalle-linkert.de/galerie/56-Ulm/i-0002.htm
(Musikmarathon - Benefizkonzert im Ulmer Roxy, photos)
 26.
February
- 10. January 2007
The next Kraan album will most likely be released march 23,
2007.
(Peter Wolbrandt is working on the cover!)
The albumtitle & tracks are:
KRAAN – psychedelic man
01. come back 3:02
02. silver buildings 4:40
03. dakkar 3:53
04. miracle days 3:16
05. luft und liebe 3:37
06. psychedelic man 4:15
07. inner cycle 5:20
08. disbanned shake 3:56
09. colourcave 6:44
10. alles gute 3:09
11. feierabend 6:15
(download) bonus track: 12. inuit minuet 5:08
(Maybe the track-order of succesion will change, maybe not)
Live at Finkenbach festival 2005, DVD was also
mixed during the last days by peter hommen. The DVD might
be something like a bonus disc for the album. But this has not
been decided yet - so anything can happen.
- International KRAAN news:
Saturday 6 January 2007 - max hattler did a
special VJ set in london at the “halloween short film
festival” – supported by super-8-film footage and
the music of KRAAN’s first album from 1972 (“sarah
auf der gänzwies”, “sarah’s ritt durch
den schwarzwald”, “mc escher” and “head”
-excerpt).
“People loved the music” max reported, “new
KRAAN fans all over the place!”, cool KRAAN!
http://www.animateonline.org/
Photo
1 and Photo
2
see www.maxhattler.com/press
 The
'unknown' organplayer Romi who played on Kraans
first album (1972):
Hellmut remembers: "Romi Schickle was an organplayer
from ulm, lived in front of my house in an vw-bus quite a while,
i supplied him with electricity with a real long cable and he
used my bathroom in exchange... when i left ulm (and moved to
wintrup with the KRAAN boys), his bus stayed dark and cold –
but when he heard that wintrup had lots of rooms, he came passing
by and we tried hard to get something together, musically (just
around the time when we recorded the first KRAAN album). but
we never became real friends, musically. We tried hard in the
beginning. Later he found out, electricity is everywhere.. "
Before Kraan Romi played in the band Prof. Wolfff who released
one album . But he was also for a period in the band Erna
Schmidt: Erna
Schmidt - Live '69 - '71 . He seems to own a studio Ulm
now www.studio-zwei.de/.
Webmaster read somewhere: "Considering those days -
If you can't remember those particular times, then you must
have been there."
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