Atlantis (German eclectic prog/heavy/prog related)
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Topic: Atlantis (German eclectic prog/heavy/prog related)
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Subject: Atlantis (German eclectic prog/heavy/prog related)
Date Posted: May 05 2010 at 23:55
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Atlantis was German rock band formed in 1972 by musicians who previously played in progressive rock group "Frumpy". Their most intersting albums are: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/atlantis/atlantis/ - Atlantis and http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/atlantis/its_getting_better/ - It's Getting Better (both from 1973). In these 2 albums Atlantis presents interesting mix of progressive rock simililar to Frumpy *(the same vocalist and organ player...) with ltos of blues...and funky influences. After these records http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/kravetz - Jean-Jacques Kravetz left the band and Atlantis changed style to more typical, short-songs oriented funky/pop/blues band. However 2 first albums are prog enough to include this band on PA ... I suppose.
line-up:
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/inga_rumpf - Inga Rumpf (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/kravetz - Jean-Jacques Kravetz (organ, keyboards, 1972-73), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/frank_diez - Frank Diez (guitar, 1972-73, 1975-76), Karl-Heinz Schott (bass), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/udo_lindenberg - Udo Lindenberg (drums, 1973), George Meier (guitar, 1973), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/dieter_bornschlegel - Dieter Bornschlegel (guitar, 1973-74), Ringo Funk (drums, 1973, 1975-76), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/rainer_schnelle - Rainer Schnelle (keyboards, 1973-74), Adrian Askew (keyboards, 1974-76), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/alex_conti - Alex Conti (guitar, 1974-76), http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/marz_f2 - Rainer Marz (guitar, 1975-76)
audio clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgt1KATUTU - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgt1KATUTU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2l_W732Avo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNBDtqeQ6k - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lNBDtqeQ6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fRel_dwR8 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fRel_dwR8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdjf0r0Ysfk
biography:
http://www.alexgitlin.com/atlantis.htm - http://www.alexgitlin.com/atlantis.htm http://www.myspace.com/ingarumpf -
discography:
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/atlantis - http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/atlantis
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Atlantis+%2812 - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Atlantis+(12 )
other:
Inga Rumpf's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/ingarumpf - http://www.myspace.com/ingarumpf
www.last.fm/music/Atlantis -------------  
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Replies:
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 06:24
| This is interesting. More like groove/jam than pure prog, but since Frumpy is in Eclectic I'll ask the Eclectic Team to give their opinion on this. |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 13:23
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The first two albums they are fully prog, i think that ozzy tom have this albums as well, because i nkow he is another forum that requested this album, i think ozzy tom that you have to PM the team to send .rar files.
OR you want that i do for you?
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Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: May 06 2010 at 20:11
If you could do it for me Alberto would be nice 
Thanks in advance! -------------
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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 18:11
Ok i will PM Harmonium to send the .rar files. ------------- |
ozzy_tom wrote:Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 18:30
| Thanks Alberto, since I've already asked the Eclectic team to have a look can you send the samples to Moris (clarke2001) please? |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 07 2010 at 19:10
Looking forward to it
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 21 2010 at 14:52
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Update: I don't know if you sent the samples off , but I've just listening to the various ones in youtube, and do not see this in Eclectic as it is so blues-based. It may have some Krautrock and jazz-rock qualities, but it doesn't strike me as fully prog (I know that's a loaded term). I would think Prog Related, but it has similarities to ones in Heavy prog (due to the blues, and not so much for heaviness). I know Frumpy is in Eclectic, buy even that I don't feel completely comfortable with in Eclectic. Since there is signifcant mainstream qualities, I would put Crossover ahead of Eclectic (which is not to say that it's right for there). If there is more material made available for evaluation, then my opinion might change. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 25 2010 at 08:41
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Atlantis is at least Prog-related, AFAIAC ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |