Bots (band)
Bots is a Dutch music group that combines elements of folk, jazz and rock to a characteristic mixture with texts in Dutch and later German language.
History
The group Bots ( Dutch botsen: " collide " ) came together in 1974 and initially published only songs in Dutch. The texts were mostly politically, socially critical and influenced by the peace movement of the 1970s. The driving force was the singer and guitarist Hans Sanders, who in 1967 published his first single. He died on November 3, 2007 in Eindhoven.
After his performance at the festival rock against law in Frankfurt in June 1979 bots became known in Germany and they had the option einzudeutschen their texts. In the translations helped celebrities such as Wolf Biermann, Diether Dehm, Dieter Hildebrandt, Hanns Dieter Hüsch, Peter Tobiasch, Henning Venske, Hannes Wader and Günter Wallraff.
The melodies of their songs are partly rooted in traditional folk songs. Thus the well-known seven-day long based on the Breton drinking song Son ar Chistr ( Song of cider ), which had been in 1970, internationally popularized by a recording of the harpist Alan Stivell, on his album Reflets (1970). This melody is occasionally used by other artists for their own music, such as by Angelo Branduardi in Guliver, the Scooters How Much Is The Fish, basing on How much is the fish? of K.I.Z. and Jan pill Otze Mickie Krause, with the inclusion of bots serves as a sampling basis.
After seven days, they played primarily with Next!, Which is based on the song " Dawn " by Georg Danzer, and the soft water in the favor of the listener.
The group gained particularly in the West German peace movement against the NATO Double-Track Decision and anti- nuclear movement of the 1980s popularity and was also a guest several times in the GDR. For the first time in 1976 for the Festival of Political Song in East Berlin, the group dedicates the song " Zeven dagen lang" the singer / poet Wolf Biermann, who for ten years had a performance ban. Recently the largest open air festival in the German Democratic Republic on 19 June 1988, the velodrome Weissensee in Berlin.
Following the decline of the popularity and the Dutch album again Paradijs 1990, the members of the group retreated into private life. A resurgence there was after a performance in the Dutch Folk Woods Festival 2001, the 2003 was a further followed. In Germany the bots came into effect on September 18, 2010 again on the large anti-nuclear demonstration in Berlinauf.
Discography
LPs CDs
Albums
- 2006: what are we to think ...