With this quote from the song "It Rock music is simply "by Tocotronic I am now my posts about the great band Blumfeld.
Blumfeld were so, together with the already mentioned Tocotronic zich talk with the stars, to the most important bands of the so-called "Hamburger Schule". Blumfeld founded in 1990 from the remnants resolution of two punk bands ("The Bee Hunter" and "black channel", which itself is dissolved because the singer disappeared after a bank robbery and so far gone ... was browsing through Indiepedia * g *). They named themselves after a short story by Franz Kafka ("Blumfeld - an old bachelor"), which can be guessed already, where it goes: ambitious, sophisticated lyrics.
The band brought in a relatively short time, two albums out (1992: "I-Machine" and 1994: "L'Etat et moi"), both of which were decisive for the German Indiependent music of the 90s. In general was even just for the album "L'Etat et moi" the name of the "Hamburg School" by a journalist of the TAZ "designed". The first two albums were still very rocky and heavily influenced by punk, the lyrics were more than confusing ... we often wonder what was there singing please.
The style was broken then, after a gap of five years, 1999 with the album "Old Nobody" ... Blumfeld had become, in time, a pop band. Instead of raw guitars and keyboards, there were now more than pop melodies and the lyrics were indeed still very, very good, though understandable. The band was suddenly known outside the indie scene. In this context, then released three more albums (2001: "Testament of Fear", something more rock, 2003: "Out of every", again very poppy, and finally 2006: "Forbidden Fruits").
Today, exactly a year ago then gave Thistle Jochen Meyer, the lead singer of the band, the band's website then known, that Blumfeld dissolve after a final tour. When I read this message, I was somehow disappointed ... But what can you do except wait for a reunion ... But at least, Jochen thistle Meyer, who has not written almost all Blumfeld songs and make according to an interview with the magazine "Intro", music continues.
What remains is the memory of one of the best German bands of the last 20 years. The plates one can still hear after all.
What would be mentioned:
Blumfeld sat down, as well Tocotronic (again ...), actively against the racism and particularly against the so-called "German-rate" on the radio.
Links:
Wikipedia article
Indiepedia article
the official fan site
other fansite
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