Slapp Happy
Slapp Happy was a German - English music group of the 1970s, popular music enriched with experimental elements. Their musical style has been described as naive rock or avant-garde pop.
Career
Slapp Happy was founded in 1972 by Anthony Moore in Hamburg. The Englishman had already released two solo albums with experimental music with Polydor. After his third album was rejected as not commercial enough, Moore suggested a more pop - oriented project. Together with his German girlfriend Dagmar Krause and the Americans Peter Blegvad he raised Slapp Happy from the baptism.
With the German rock band Faust as an accompanist in 1972 they brought out the album Sort Of. Because Slapp Happy refused to perform live, the album did not sell very well. In 1973 she took, again together with Faust, the album Casablanca Moon on, which was not published by Polydor.
Slapp Happy left Polydor and went to England, where they got a contract with Virgin Records. With studio musicians Casablanca Moon was re-recorded and released in 1974 as Slapp Happy. The original recordings with fist until 1980 were brought from " Recommended Records " as Acnalbasac Noom on the market.
In June 1974 a short burst along with Robert Wyatt and the Artrockband Henry Cow planned free concert in London's Hyde Park. On June 25, Slapp Happy played music with Geoff Leigh, Fred Frith, Lindsay Cooper and Robert Wyatt in the BBC radio show "Top Gear" - these recordings were released by Wyatt in 1994 on his album Flotsam Jetsam under the group name " Slapp Happy & Friends".
In November 1974 Slapp Happy and Henry Cow played together an album Desperate Straights. The surprising success of this project led in early 1975 to collaborate again for the album In Praise of Learning. A little later, Moore and Blegvad left the cooperation project and focused henceforth on their respective solo careers. This meant the end of Slapp Happy. Dagmar Krause remained as a singer with Henry Cow.
1982, there was a brief reunion of Slapp Happy, from which the single " Everybody's Slimmin ' (Even Men and Women ) " emerged. On 10 September of the same year since its inception, they were the " Dial M For Music " festival at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts for the first time live on.
In 1991 she participated for the BBC, the opera "Camera " on, based on an idea by Dagmar Krause, Peter Blegvad texts by, music by Anthony Moore. The soundtrack of the television production released in 2000 on CD.
1997 appeared a new album of Slapp Happy, Ça Va, on the Moore, Blegvad and Krause grossed all the instruments himself. Their popularity in Japan in 2000 was a tour that is documented on the CD Live in Japan.
Members
- Anthony Moore - guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming, tape manipulation, theremin, melodica, harmonica, vocals
- Peter Blegvad - guitar, bass guitar, saxophone, clarinet, percussion, harmonica, vocals
- Dagmar Krause - vocals, piano, percussion, harmonica
Discography
Note: The dates refer to the publication (not recording).