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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Lift-off in Hashbury

It sounded like Maurice Ravel on LSD, and the singer's icy voice made tender natures' blood freeze in their veins: In July 1967, the legendary Summer of Love, "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane conquered the top ten of the US single charts. It was already the second bang of the drum that the band from San Francisco landed in this wildly moved flower power year. Only a few weeks earlier, on June 16th, the very day when one of the first big rock festivals started in Monterey, Jefferson Airplane celebrated their hit premiere with "Somebody To Love": 5th place in the USA.

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BLACKFIELD - Fairly best friends

Not all musicians can put their art into words. This also applies to Aviv Geffen, who receives at the Cologne Hilton, but prefers to play with his mobile phone rather than concentrate on the conversation. He suffers from a discreet self-overestimation and sometimes has less to say than one would expect from a man of his reputation. After all, he is not only a musician, actor and TV celebrity, but also the mouthpiece of the political left in Israel, critic of the radical Orthodox like the Netanyahu government and a good friend with all kinds of rock celebrities.

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CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX have freed themselves from their existential crisis

Crippled Black Phoenix deal with the current socio-political situation. Their thoughts also revolve around internal topics. Behind the band from Bristol are legal disputes with their former members Karl Demata and Christian Heilmann. She survived the ordeal. Crippled head Justin Greaves has meanwhile passed through a personal misery: he has fought his depressions and put them in their place. The 45-year-old said that he had emerged stronger from it. In any case he turns against negative elements like populists and other dividers with the new record "Bronze".

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Sister Morphine - MARIANNE FAITHFULLfor Seventieth

On 29 December Marianne Faithfull turned seventy. For the former junkie, who became an elegant dark icon with albums like "Broken English", "Strange Weather" or "Before The Poison", no reason to celebrate. In the sixties, the "mother of all rock chicks" was the first woman next to Nico to celebrate just as wildly as the rock stars with whom she was associated. We visited her in her adopted home Paris for a coffee in the Hotel Costes at the Rue Saint Honoré.

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The Art Of Sysyphus Vol. 91

BLACKFIELD - Family Man (3:37)
Album: V (2017) (Release: 10.02.)
Label/Distribution: Kscope/Edel
www.kscopemusic.com/artists/blackfield

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25 Years of Electronic Sound Signals from Berlin - Mario Schönwälder on the MANIKIN Label

eclipsed: How did the Manikin label come into being? What role did you play?

Mario Schönwälder: That was at the end of 1991, when I decided after two CDs on the label MI to go my own way. I was, so to speak, the leading actor who wanted to do something new.

eclipsed: And how did you yourself come to electronic music as a musician?

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RPWL guitarist Kalle Wallner takes on the next challenge with BLIND EGO

eclipsed: Just now the soundcheck with RPWL, now the interview for Blind Ego, afterwards the RPWL concert. How do you switch back and forth?

Kalle Wallner: I'm actually used to having all the different construction sites at the same time now. At the latest, since our label Gentle Art Of Music exists, there is always a lot to do. You get used to it, too. RPWL and Blind Ego side by side is actually easy, because I'm heavily involved in both. So that's a pretty good fit.

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ALSARAH AND THE NUBATONES - From Khartoum via Taizz and Boston to Brooklyn

Something tribal drum, a few plucked instruments, in addition this clear female voice, traditional singing, somewhere in the North African area to locate, perhaps also some Arabic harmonies. And then, after 52 seconds, the electric bass comes along, playing a driving urban dance groove. What a contrast! But at the same moment: what a symbiosis! "Salam Nubia", the opener of "Manara", the second album of Alsarah And The Nubatones, is a prime example of the music of the New York quintet. "Salam Nubia", one may translate that with "Peace for Nubia" or also "Greetings to Nubia".

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eclipsed-Feature: The History of German Rock

Where is the beginning of German rock music? When can you really talk about Deutschrock? In the 60s, German beat bands like the Rattles or the Lords still sang in the language of their Anglo-American idols as if they were a matter of course. This is how Wolfgang Niedecken (65) tells eclipsed: "Rock music in my generation has only become interesting in the first place because of the big English bands. If you wanted to do it yourself, you would be strongly connected to the English language. That was hard to separate."

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40 years ago: THE BAND say goodbye

Five musicians sitting on a worn leather set. They know more about each other than they care to. They've experienced things together that ordinary people wouldn't even dream of, and they've enjoyed the highest feelings of happiness and looked into the deepest abysses. They have played in front of hundreds of thousands of cheering fans, by others they have been mercilessly booed. They have spent the nights in gloomy juke-joints in front of a handful of boozers and have stolen their food together in shopping malls.

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