FRITZ
MUELLER
Fritz Mueller - multimedia concept
artist, composer, songwriter, musician, singer, bandleader
PISSOFF - KRAFTWERK - NEU! - FRITZ
MUELLER
Fritz Mueller is one of the
most innovative musicians of the German Rock Scene. Born 1945 as
Eberhard Kranemann in Germany, he studied the classical double bass
at the Dortmund Conservatory, played Bach / Mozart / Telemann -
orchestra music and played in some Jazz bands. Then he went to
Duesseldorf to study painting at the Arts Academy. Beside
experimenting with colours and painting abstract pictures he
experimented with sounds, at first with cello, clarinet,
tenorsaxophone, electric guitar, hawaii guitar, later with
electronic instruments. Together with some other art students he
founded the experimental music group
PISSOFF in 1967. Angry about
the social development in Germany and the conservative behaviour
round about , they destructed the rules of music. In concerts they
played free improvised music nonstop for three hours. Everyone
played as loud as possible - without harmony, correct notes,
predominant structures and norms - and the people liked it.
Freedom pure. Chaos. Sound
terror. JOSEPH BEUYS, art professor at the academy in Duesseldorf,
liked it so much that he made a performance together with PISSOFF in
the famous Duesseldorf Creamcheese Club, Frank Zappa's favourite
German club.
This was the time when
Florian Schneider-Esleben heard this sound and joined the band.
He became a friend of
Eberhard Kranemann. The two curious musicians made some more
experiments with music, out of which KRAFTWERK was born. After four
years of collaboration he began to work together with Klaus Dinger
and Michael Rother in the band NEU!. Then he gave himself the stage
name FRITZ MUELLER, worked as a solo artist in concerts and recorded
at the conny plank studio in Wolperath, formed the FRITZ MUELLER
BAND, toured for concerts in Germany, worked in conny's studio
again, played in radio and television. The 1977 FRITZ MUELLER ROCK
LP, co-produced by conny plank, is now, 2007, thirty years later,
one of the most important documents of the GERMAN ROCK HISTORY, now
called PSYCH HEAVY KRAUTROCK and KRAUTROCK KEY BAND.
-Eberhard Kranemann / FRITZ MUELLER is still
working as an artist and musician-
-experimental music concerts / experimental art
exhibitions and performances-
www.fritzmueller.info
www.e-kranemann.de
www.experimentalkunst.com
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