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[ home | music | journalism | biography | music samples | orders | news | press | email | links - German ] Frank Gingeleit has a degree in journalism and had a permanent position as a PR-journalist and a company's spokesman for many years. Besides composing and recording his own music he's regularly writing on music topics. See below a selection of articles and reviews in English that can be found in the web and scans of articles in printed magazines. General articles: "We didn't wanna be a 'Hit And Run' Band. We really wanted to bring something to the world" - An interview with Walter Seyffer, founder and head of the german progressive Rock "veterans" Nine Days' Wonder - An interview with the founder of this Mannheim, Germany, based band, that contributed a lot to the experimental and avant-garde edge of the early „genuine Krautrock“. - From "Aural Innovations" # 18 (January 2002) - read article The Drumming Man - An interview with Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru - Mani Neumeier is not only world famous for being the founder and drummer of the legendary Guru Guru but was also influential in the European Free Jazz of the Sixties. Besides this he works in the projects Tiere der Nacht, Terra Amphibia and Lover 303. He’s got a lot to say about the beginning uprise of German Rock in the late Sixties and early Seventies and its political and societal environment. - From "Aural Innovations" # 19 (April 2002) - read article Finkenbach 2002: Inside the Mushroom - A close view at one of the last German Hippie festivals - A festival report of a different kind, not only covering the bands on stage but also but also the social "embedding" of this maybe one of the last big Hippie and alternative festivals in Germany. - From "Aural Innovations" # 21 (October 2002) - read article We lived what we played... A report on a special "rebirth" of four Seventies' Progressive Rock Bands in South Western Germany: Nine Days' Wonder, Kin Ping Meh, Twenty Sixty Six And Then and Tritonus - A report on a project featuring the bands mentioned in an exhibition, an open air concert and a public talk show with former members of the bands mentioned. - From "Aural Innovations" # 21 (October 2002) - read article The "Progressive Seventies" in South Western Germany: Rock in the Rhein-Neckar Area - Initially an information sheet for visitors of the exhibition mentioned above, this article turned out to become a reflection on the political and societal climate of the Seventies and its inter-relation with the music of that period - not only in South Western Germany. - From "Aural Innovations" # 21 (October 2002) - read article "You might have called us the Mainstream of Progressiveness" - An interview with Joachim Schäfer, co-founder of the German Seventies Prog Rock Band Kin Ping Meh - Kin Ping Meh were a Prog Rock band from Germany in the early Seventies, still appraised for their "heavy progressive riffing" by some but on the other hand they were more than just a bit trapped in the process of commercialisation of "progressiveness" by the music and film industry at that time. - From "Aural Innovations" # 24 (July 2003) - read article On Vacation With Kin Ping Meh - Or: Does German progressive Rock of the Seventies still play an important role in everyday life of the third millenium? - While I was working on the above mentioned interview with Joachim Schäfer I recieved an email by a young lady from the US asking me whether I could help her with some lyrics of Kin Ping Meh. This led to a lengthy email communication with an alltogether surprising end... - From "Aural Innovations" # 24 (July 2003) - read article Volker Kriegel 1943 - 2003: An Obituary - The German guitarist Volker Kriegel is generally regarded as the "Father of Jazz Rock" from his beginning as a professional musician as a member of the Dave Pike Set in the Sixties. Volker Kriegel died of cancer on June, 15th 2003. - From "Aural Innovations" # 24 (July 2003) - read article Sulphur Sonic Festival - Mannheim, Germany, August 30th, 2003 - A report about a new open air free festival for underground music, rather unlikely these days. - From "Aural Innovations" (September 2003) - read article Ten Years of Stone Premonitions - Happy Birthday - The translation of an eight page article for the German printed mag Moonhead on the occasion of the label's tenth anniverary (scroll down to see a scan of the original article). - From "Aural Innovations" (July 2004) - read article In February 2004 Frank Gingeleit started writing for the German printed music magazine "Moonhead". Their issue # 5 includes a story about the British psychedelic band "The Rabbit's Hat".  
The issue # 6 of Moonhead features the title pic taken by Frank Gingeleit and the title story about the Japanese Psychedelick Rockers Marble Sheep. The centerpiece of this edition is surely the coverage of the British Stone Premonitions label on the occasion of their tenth label anniversary: And there was an additional article about the Texas Space Punk and Krautrock band ST 37: Reviews: Mani Neumeier - Solo Concert - "zeitraum_ex!t", Mannheim, Germany, December 14th, 2002 - A review of a solo concert of the Guru Guru drummer in Mannheim, Germany, in December 2002. - From "Aural Innovations" # 22 (January 2003) - read article Brainticket "Alchemic Universe": An excellent synthesis of Psychedelia and Modern Grooves (2003) - A review of the remastered German publication. - From "Zoopa Loop" (April 2003) - read article "Our Man in Germany" - The first edition of my personal column in the online version of the British review magazine "Modern Dance" covering current German music releases from major companies as well as from independent labels and completely independent releases only to be found at the respective musicians' websites. - From "Modern Dance" # 45 (July 2003) - read article (contemporarily not accessible, as I found out) Kraftwerk "Tour de France Soundtracks" - The first record of these German electro pioneers in 17 years. - From "Aural Innovations" (August 2003) - read article Kraan "Through" - A new studio recording by these early "Krautrockers" - From "Aural Innovations" (September 2003) - read article Schwefel "Unlimited Years" / "Edge City" / "Mystifyer" - Norbert Schwefel's underground project from Mannheim, Germany, heavily knocking at the door of the "global underground" -From "Aural Innovations" (September 2003) - read article Horacz Bluminth "Marsch Obskur" - "Outragous" music from 1996, still new and exciting and worthwhile to mention - From "Aural Innovations" (September 2003) - read article "Our Man in Germany" - The second edition of my personal column in the online version of the British review magazine "Modern Dance" covering current German music releases from major companies as well as from independent labels and completely independent releases only to be found at the respective musicians' websites. - From "Modern Dance" # 46 (December 2003) - read article Cousin Silas "Portraits & Peelings" - Cousin Silas is the musical alias of Dave W. Hughes, the editor of "Modern Dance" who just brought out is first full lenght CD album. I really appreciated that he has asked me for the "delicate" job of reviewing his release for his own mag. So this one is rather not an appraisal but some kind of a "serious warning" for those who will not like this album. Everybody else will love it... - From "Modern Dance" # 46 (December 2003) - read article Volker Kriegel "Spectrum" - The first solo LP of the German "Father of Jazz Rock" now re-released on CD - From "Aural Innovations" (January 2004) - read article Albert Mangelsdorff "And His Friends" - The republication of the famous LP from 1969 that set some of the standards that up to this day define the genre of improvised music - From "Aural Innovations" (January 2004) - read article |
