In 2005 singer and guitarist Jack Sharp had the idea for Wolf People. Together with the second guitarist Jon Hollick, drummer Tom Watt and bassist Dan Davies they went on their musical journey, where they were compared with all kinds of rock and folk heroes - from Jethro Tull to Fairport Convention to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Sharp explains why the band is in such a good mood right now.

eclipsed: First, a question of understanding. Even though I haven't discovered any stringent concepts: Is "Ruins" a concept album?

Jack Sharp: Some songs are connected by the idea of how a world without people would work. Hence the title "Ruins". But it is not a continuous story and therefore not a concept album.

eclipsed: After all, the track "Kingfisher" runs through the album in three parts..

Chicago blues is, according to the lexical definition, a variation from the first half of the 20th century that is based on the flight of impoverished black farm workers from the southern states to the midwest of the USA. Through him, the "classical blues" and the country blues were brought together into a more urban variant: more jazz oriented and more technically sophisticated. Not only the guitar, but also the piano was a formative stylistic element. After the Second World War the Chicago Blues became electric and experienced a new heyday with artists like Muddy Waters, Little Walter or Howlin' Wolf. From 1957, however, the audience turned to soul.

A soft spot for life

The times when the Californian-born Manhattan resident stood for folk pop hits like "Luka", "Marlene On The Wall" or "Tom's Diner" are finally over. Today, at 57, the superstar of the 80s is at home in the world of art and theatre - as a director, scriptwriter and composer. Which is why her current project "Lover, Beloved" also proves to be a mixture of a studio album and her now second stage play about the US writer Carson McCullers (1917-1967). Vega admits with a smile that she is almost a bit obsessed with her: "I have the feeling that she was far ahead of her time and suffered a lot from it. She was socially critical, bisexual, exceptionally talented and very sensitive. In addition, she was already seriously ill as a young girl, she had health problems all her life. When she was 30, she suffered a stroke and remained paralyzed on one side. Nevertheless, she worked every day, and her work is characterized by a combative touch. I admire her for that."

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Album: The Similitude Of A Dream (2CD, 2016)
Label/Distribution: Radiant/Metal Blade/Sony
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John Bunyan's two-part allegory "The Pilgrimage" (1678/1684) is about a journey to the afterlife and forms the basis for "The Similitude Of A Dream". The tension is maintained for a good 100 minutes, highlight after highlight, whereby "Slave To Your Mind" reflects the complex thoughts of the hero. Album of the month!

The start of the Remaster series of his solo work, "Take A Look At Me Now", brought Phil Collins back into the public consciousness. The reason for his absence from the media, apart from health problems (hearing loss in the left ear, numbness in the hands due to problems with the spine, and finally alcohol abuse) and his withdrawal into private life, was probably also the image that the media had drawn of him, which he saw as skewed. Reason enough to ask him questions about his life, infamous Twitter rumours and his future.

eclipsed: 45 songs in the deluxe edition and 33 on the double CD are a lot of wood. With such an extensive collection as "The Singles" it was certainly not difficult to choose the tracks. What was it like for you to present yourself as a hit supplier again?

The significance of Richard Pinhas in France corresponds to that of Edgar Froese and Klaus Schulze in Germany: he is the founder, the father figure of electronic music. In contrast to Jean-Michel Jarre, he never gave himself to commerce, never allowed himself to be seduced by theatrical gestures, always remained true to his spirit of research. Since the early seventies he acquired an enormous reputation with his bands Schizo and Heldon and later with countless solo albums.

And even after almost 50 years of a career in music, he is still committed to experimentation. Now Pinhas presents two new albums: "Mu" is a collaboration with the Californian electronic musician Barry Cleveland, "Process And Reality" was created together with the Japanese noise avant-gardists Merzbow and Yoshida Tatsuya. eclipsed talked to the pioneer not only about music, but also about his philosophy and world politics.

Roger "Syd" Barrett, Radovan "Bob" Klose, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright probably gave each other the name The Pink Floyd Sound in January 1965 at a dance on the grounds of the Royal Air Force in Uxbridge (West London). And that in the middle of the performance, because the quintet, originally announced as The Tea Set, was sharpening its grip on the fact that another band, which also played that evening, was trading under the same name. Even if there are other rumours about the origin of the name Pink Floyd, it probably goes back to a suggestion of Syd Barrett, who combined the first names of the old Carolina blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. "When we later became part of the London Underground, this name was a lucky coincidence because the combination of 'Pink' and 'Floyd' has a psychedelic ambiguity," commented Mason in 2004.

After the big retrospective with the album box "79:10" the three founding members Lupo, Eroc and Willi Wildschwein are still working on the adventurous story of the band. After all, Grobschnitt have immensely enriched German rock music with records like "Solar Music Live", "Rockpommel's Land" and "Illegal". Guitarist Lupo and soundhexer Eroc give eclipsed information about how the "Solar Movie"-Box came into being, why 1978 was such a special year for the group and how it goes on with rough editing.

eclipsed: How did the "Solar Movie" box come about after all this time?

Lupo: The idea of releasing the Rockpalast gig has always been in our heads. We were also permanently reminded by the coarse editing friends to finally publish the video professionally. Many people recorded the performance on television and put it online many years ago.