Kraan - 1980 - Tournee

Kraan

1980

Tournee

01. Borgward (8:22)
02. Almrausch (6:09)
03. Peterchens Reise (7:02)
04. Vollgas Ahoi (8:10)
05. Yaqui Yagua (8:05)
06. Silky Way (4:47)

Ingo Bischof / keyboards
Udo Dahmen / drums
Helmut Hattler / bass

Peter Wolbrandt / guitar, vocals

Before the golden era for KRAAN ended, they managed to release with producer Conny Plank one last excellent live recording "Tournee". This album was made up of clips from four different performances circa 1979. Stylistically, 'Tournee' is very similar to "Wierderhoren" (in fact 3 songs are lifted from that studio album!) with their unmistakeable cheerful, upbeat jazzy-rock drenched music. KRAAN's line up included Udo Dahmen (drums), Light Courage Hattler (bass), Peter Wolbrandt (guitar, vocals) and Ingo Bishop (keyboards).

KRAAN were an amazing band and really did not sound like anyone else at the time and always exuded strong, high energy rhythmically explosive music. With all the complexity in their music they never lost that certain sense of dreamy melancholy in their sound either which carries a strong ensuring quality for me. Definitely less cosmic-like than KRAAN live but definitely the same band in full action captured here. I suspect fans of GROBSCHNITT will adore this band.