Anyone's Daughter

Anyone's Daughter is a German rock band. In its first incarnation during the late 1970s and 1980s it was one of the most influential bands of the German progressive rock scene. Since its reunification in 2000 is the musical direction of the band in the direction of pop-rock, in part, using the established in the earlier works stylistic device.

History

1972 was founded in Stuttgart Anyone's Daughter by Uwe Carpathians and Matthias Ulmer, who had since been involved as a core of the band in all occupations. The band named themselves after a song title from Deep Purple. A wider audience, the band became accessible with their first album Adonis, which was released in 1979.

The early albums of the band around frontman Harald Bareth are stylistically held rock in a symphonic and sometimes lyrical Progressive, as it was coined in the first half of the 1970s by British bands like Genesis. The first two albums also contain English lyrics. Adonis comprises four pieces, including the title track with a playing length of 24 minutes - in a progressive rock quite common song format. The successor Anyone's Daughter, however, consists of eight shorter pieces held.

The following albums were provided with German lyrics, the stylistic orientation retained initially but with a largely. With Pictor's Metamorphoses, the band released 1981, a musical version of the fairy tale of the same name by Hermann Hesse, which formed the centerpiece of the concerts of the band for four years. The musical setting is kept as an interplay between narrative passages with lighter background music, performed by Harald Bareth, and short instrumental pieces in the usual symphonic style. On the next album In Blue appears to the symphonic style of poetic and lyrical character of the pieces to the fore. With dance and death a three-part processing of the subject is contained death.

With New Stars they tried to build on the success of the German New Wave. However, a short time later came the dissolution of the band. After a brief reunion with a new cast and a further publication we broke up in 1986, initially on final.

In 2000 it came to the reunion of the band around Carpathians and Ulmer, who had operated in the meantime in other projects. Ulmer had played for, among others, Heinz -Rudolf Kunze, could be taken from the band bassist Raoul Walton. Compared with the early works, the band presented stylistically changed significantly - the pieces are now similar to modern pop-rock. The American singer Andre Carswell was recorded as the youngest member of the band. His English-language, oriented on Soul singing contributes to the stylistic reorientation of the band. However, more recent compositions also contain elements that are reminiscent of the early works of the band, such as the fast guitar and keyboard runs and staccato passages.

After the reunion, the band sometimes in a trio with vocals, guitar and keyboard appears again live. Unlike acoustic concerts often the case, the program is doing but not dominated by quiet pieces - the repertoire also includes some songs with fast instrumental runs and unison passages.

Discography

• By 1979, the live program, still unpublished: Beyond the limits of eternity, The Taker, La Dance, Red Rose Jamaica
• 1979: Adonis
• 1980: Anyone's Daughter
• 1981: Pictor's Metamorphoses
• 1982: In Blue
• 1983: New Stars
• 1984: Live
• 1986: Last Tracks
• 2001: Danger World
• 2001: Requested Document Live 1980-1983
• 2003: Requested Document Live 1980-1983 Vol 2
• 2004: Wrong
• 2006: Trio Tour
• 2011: Calw Live ( Heinz Rudolf Kunze with )

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• Ex - singer and bassist Harald Bareth now works as chief physician of the radiology department at the hospital in Schorndorf near Stuttgart.
• In 2002, the band played, as well as Steppenwolf to the German -born singer John Kay, in Calw at the festival in honor of Hermann Hesse. Pictor's Metamorphoses was revived after almost two decades for the first time live in the Hessian town of Calw. Heinz Rudolf Kunze - worked it with as narrator.