Kollektiv

This group from Germany played a forward thinking mixture of jazz-rock in the first 1970s. Their one eponymous record is often weighed against extremely early Kraftwerk and Company, and their links with Kraftwerk get back to the past due 1960s. Kollektiv’s root base start in the middle-60s when Jogi and Waldemar Karpenkiel, twin brothers, and Jurgen Havix produced the trio The Generals to try out pop music. The group split up as well as the three music artists went on to many other rings. Jogi Karpenkiel spent time in the Phantoms, which afterwards transformed their name to Bluesology and which also included upcoming Kraftwerk co-leader Ralf Hutter, as well as the jazz saxophonist Klaus Dapper. In 1968 Jogi departed Bluesology (which in turn became the proto-Kraftwerk music group Company) and rejoined his sibling Waldemar and Havix in the Generals. Uninterested in Defeat music, their affects today ranged from early Zappa and Ruler Crimson to jazz, plus they shortly coaxed Dapper in to the group to greatly help them in these directions. In 1970 the quartet became Kollektiv, using a much stronger focus on experimentation and improvisation. By 1971 these were prepared to tour and using their initial gig 250 mls apart, they bought a vintage VW bus your day before. Another many years the group performed many nightclubs and celebrations throughout Germany. In March of 1973 Kollektiv journeyed to Hamburg to record their self-titled record with Conny Plank as the engineer, as well as the record premiered on the renowned Human brain label. A couple of months afterwards some materials was documented and aired on the Sudwestfunk Radio Studio room. Two years afterwards Jogi Karpenkiel still left the band to become listed on Guru Expert for a couple of years and Havix continued to go after a solo profession. With fresh guitarist Jochen Schrumpf and bassist Detlef Wiederhoft, Kollektiv slogged along for a couple of years before disbanding in 1978. In 1987 Waldemar Karpenkel, Dapper, and Schrumpf reformed the group with famed Swedish bassist Jonas Hellborg and keyboardist Thomas Bettermann and released the recording Kollektiv Featuring Jonas Hellborg another year, though very little has happened since that time using the group.