Karat

German rock-band Karat shaped in that which was then East Germany in 1975 from your ashes of another group called Panta Rhei. The original lineup contains vocalist Hans-Joachim “Neumi” Neumann, keyboardist Ulrich “Ed” Swillms, bassist Henning Protzmann, drummer Konrad Burkert, and guitarists Herbert Dreilich and Utlrich Pexa. Burkert and Pexa had been replaced the next 12 months by Michael Schwandt and Bernd Römer, and Neumann remaining the group 1977 to satisfy military duties, departing Dreilich to dominate business lead vocals. They released their debut in 1978, which presented the strike “König der Welt.” The group’s penchant for intensifying rock continuing on 1979’s Über Sieben Brücken, which presented their biggest strike, “Über Sieben Brücken Mußt du Geh’n,” aswell as the epic “Albatros,” the second option which boldly criticized the Berlin Wall structure. Schwanenkönig found its way to 1980 accompanied by the platinum Der Blaue World in 1982 and Die Sieben Wunder der Welt in 1984. Some lineup shifts dominated the past due-’80s/early-’90s incarnation of the group, and despite a continuing flow of fresh material and produces, Karat’s popularity started to wane. Dreilich experienced a heart stroke while on-stage in 1998, but retrieved just with time for the band’s 25th wedding anniversary present in Berlin. The display premiered on Disc and the good testimonials and general well-wishing from the general public energized the music group enough to return into the studio room to record some brand-new material. The causing Licht und Schatten found its way to 2003. Both triumphant and bittersweet, it had been to become Dreilich’s last bow, as he was diagnosed early in the entire year with lymphatic cancers and died afterwards that Dec. At his demand, Karat continuing on along with his 35-year-old kid Claudius Dreilich overtaking lead vocal responsibilities, but had to improve their name to K…! because of a trademark fit filed with the elder Dreilich’s widow.