Atlantis
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- Adrian Askew -- keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (replaced Rainer Schnelle) (1974-75) - Dieter Bornschlegel -- lead guitar (replaced Franz Diez) (1973-74) - Alexander Conti -- guitar (replaced Dieter Bornschlegel) (1974-75) - Curt Cress -- drums (1972-73) - Frank Diez -- lead guitar (1972-73 and 75) - Ringo Funk -- drums percussion (replaced Curt Cress) (1973-75) - Jean Jacques Kravetz -- keyboards, percussion, sax (1972-73) - Rainer Marz. -- lead guitar (replaced Alexander Conti) (1975-) - Inga Rumpf -- vocals, percussion (1972-76) - Rainer Schnelle -- keyboards (replaced Jean Jacxques Kravetz) (1973-75) - Karl Heinz Schott -- bass, backing vocals (1972-76)
Post-disbanding Shortly after Frumpy disbanded, Rumpf, Kravetz and Schott recruited guitarist Frank Diez and drummer Curt Cress, both formerly with Munich-based jazz fusion combo Emergency, to form a "supergroup" called Atlantis [de].[3] Atlantis, which has been described as "Frumpy repackaged with a more commercial hard-rock style," recorded their first album Atlantis in 1972, which was released early in 1973.[4] Rumpf was voted 'Best Female Rock Singer of 1973' by Musikexpress readers.[6] Diez and Cress were replaced by George Meier and Lindenberg for the subsequent tour, who were themselves replaced by Dieter Bornschlegel and Ringo Funk when the tour ended.[3] They then released It's Getting Better (1973), which had a strong Afrobeat influence, and caused Die Zeit to hail Rumpf as a "superstar", after which in early 1974 Kravetz left the band to join Randy Pie.[6] Schnelle was replaced again by Adrian Askew and Bornschlegel by Curly Curve's Alex Conti. The third album Ooh Baby (1974) was written mostly by Askew and Conti and veered towards the P-funk sound, and the band toured the U.S. as a support act for Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Following more changes in line-up two further albums were released, Get On Board (1975) and Live (1975), but, despite achieving commercial success in Germany, the group disbanded in January 1976.[3][10] On 23 February 1983, the founder members played a one-off reunion concert in Hamburg.[10
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- The City Preachers (Inga Rumpf) - Curly Curve (Alex Conti) - Emergency (Curt Cress) - Family Tree (Rainer Schnelle) - Frumpy (Jean Jacques Kravetz, Inga Rumpf and Karl Heinz Schott ) - Guru Guru (Diet)er Bornschlegel - Jeronimo (Ringo Funk) - Lake (Alex Conti and Adrian Askew) - Passport (Curt Cress) - Randy Pie (Jean Jacques Kravetz) - Inga Rumpf (solo efforts) - Traumtorte - Trumvirat (Curt Cress)
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Genre: rock Rating: 3 stars *** Title: Atlantis Company: Polydor Catalog: PD-6513 Country/State: Germany. Franch and UK Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+ Comments: cut lower right corner Available: 1 Catalog ID: 5500 Price: $25.00
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Inga Rumpf ... 99.9% of American music fans won't have a clue. Sad since she's quite a talented singer, though few people outside of Germany know it. Adding to her misfortune, the few American references to Rumpf repeatedly compare her to Janis Joplin - "the German Janis Joplin" seems to be a popular if inappropriate description. Talk about a way to kill off a career !!!
Born in Hamburg, by the time she was a teenager Rumpf had already acquired professional credentials singing with various blues bands. Her recording career started in 1965 with The City Preachers, which evolved into Frumpy. Frumpy survived long enough to record three critically acclaimed studio albums before collapsing in 1972. Later that year Rumpf, French keyboardist Jean Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl Heinz Schott subsequently elected to continue their partnership forming Atlantis. The initial line up was rounded out by lead guitarist Frank Diez and ex-Emergency drummer Curt Cress.
In Germany and the rest of Europe the group's third studio set was released with the title "Ooh Baby".
Vertigo catalog number 6360621
For some reason Polydor management elected to release the set domestically with a new title ("Atlantis") and with alternate if equally bland packaging. Never mind the fact their 1972 debut album had been entitled "Atlantis". Produced by Dieter Dierks the collection was released in the wake of another set of personnel changes including the addition of the English keyboardist Adrian Askew and former Curly Curve lead guitarist Alexander Conti. With Askew and Conti assuming responsibility for the majority of writing duties (Rumpf contributed four tracks), the album found the band pursuing a mixture of German soul (yes it is a genre that exists) and conventional AOR. Propelled by Rumpf's surprisingly funky accented voice, tracks like 'Mr. Bigshot (You Get the Credit)' and 'Smiling People' were more than a match for their Anglo-American competitors. Personally my tastes ran towards their rock moves with 'Son of a Bitch's Son' and 'New York City' being quite memorable numbers. On the other hand taken as a complete package there simply wasn't a great deal of originality to be found across the album. Vertigo tapped the album for a pair of German singles:
- 1975's 'Son of a Bitch's Son' b/w 'Friends (Vertigo catalog number 6147 007) - 1975's 'Mainline Florida' b/w 'Ooh Baby' (Vertigo catalog number 6147 010)
In the States Polydor released 'Son of a Bitch's Son' b/w 'Friends' as the single (Polydor catalog number PD-15106).
In an effort to break the band in the States the band toured the US opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd. The tour did little for sales, but saw Conti fired (he reappeared with Lake). Former guitarist Frank Dietz returned to the line up along with second guitarist Rainer Marz.
"Atlantis" track listing: 1.) Mainline Florida (G. Terry)- 2:56 2.) Son of a Bitch's Son (Inga Rumpf) - 3:51 3.) Waiting and Longing (Inga Rumpf) - 3:14 4.) Mr. Bigshot (You Get the Credit) (Adrian Askew - Alexander Conti) - 5:34 5.) The Way I Choose (Adrian Askew - Alexander Conti) - 3:53
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2) 2.) Smiling People (Inga Rumpf - Jean Jacques Kravetz) - 3:53 3.) New York City (Adrian Askew) - 4:41 4.) Godfather (Adrian Askew - Alexander Conti) - 3:43 5.) Leave It To the Devil (Adrian Askew) - 3:15
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