The Crystalairs Big Boys (CD)

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(Part Records) 22 tracks, digibook, hardcover, 40 pages Active since 1988, the brothers Jens... more

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The Crystalairs: Big Boys (CD)

(Part Records) 22 tracks, digibook, hardcover, 40 pages

Active since 1988, the brothers Jens (lead / 1st tenor) and Daniel (baritone / bass) Franke with Ralf Zur Linde (lead / 1st tenor) and Claus Peter Niem (2nd tenor) are one of the world's best known active bands in the field of harmony vocals. Shortly after their foundation, the quartet became known on genre stations in the USA - the debut single was released on Ed Engel's Crystal Ball label, and the liner notes to "Big Boys" now come from Joe Conray (DJ Brad), who has long accompanied the Germans on Doo Wop Radio.

The Crystalairs have tried their hand in all directions, most recently even singing complete German-language albums for Bear Family Records. The new work is accompanied by 22 songs in classic band style, 20 of them original compositions as well as the well-known "Stranger Girl" from the movie "The Wanderers" and the autobiographical key song "Wir gesuchtten nur ein Echo", an adaptation of Richard Reicheg's "Looking For An Echo". Over 14 months RICHARD REICHEG wrote, rehearsed, recorded and produced in his own studio, simple instrumented songs with classical themes, which offer the best stage for ingenious, polyphonic harmony singing. A real masterpiece!

'Nobody sounds like Crystalairs'... Götz Alsmann

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Interpret: The Crystalairs
Album titlle: Big Boys (CD)
Genre R&B, Soul
Label PART RECORDS
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4015589003676
weight in Kg 0.12

Crystalairs, The - Big Boys (CD) CD 1
01	The Doo Wop Baby Melody	The Crystalairs
02	Hi	The Crystalairs
03	Stranger Girl	The Crystalairs
04	Hello, My Name Is Susan	The Crystalairs
05	Tides Of Love	The Crystalairs
06	It's All Over But The Crying	The Crystalairs
07	Circle Of Love	The Crystalairs
08	My Very Last High School Love Affair	The Crystalairs
09	The Missing Title	The Crystalairs
10	Wannabe	The Crystalairs
11	Abc's Of Love	The Crystalairs
12	Primavera	The Crystalairs
13	Laura's Stars Still Shining	The Crystalairs
14	Love Is Like A High School Prom	The Crystalairs
15	Heaven's Door	The Crystalairs
16	Knick Knock	The Crystalairs
17	The Same School	The Crystalairs
18	Queen Of The Hop	The Crystalairs
19	The Four Candles	The Crystalairs
20	Singing The Night Away	The Crystalairs
21	Wir Suchten Nur Ein Echo	The Crystalairs
22	Big Boys	The Crystalairs

The Crystalairs What happens in two prospective high-school graduates in 1988 who don't fit... more

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"The Crystalairs"

The Crystalairs

What happens in two prospective high-school graduates in 1988 who don't fit into the classrooms covered with Wham! and Kylie Minogue posters? Who feel like they're moving in the fifties and sixties while their classmates bathe in the drum computer waves of the eighties? Who are unconsciously addicted to doo-wop and are annoyed that suddenly the'Dirty Dancing'-cult is spreading and every second suddenly feels Stay and In The Still Of The Night is good? A real romper could not approve of this, for it was transient fashion, not a true vocation.

You can't imagine it when you see recent photos, but Ralf zur Linde and Claus-Peter Niem were such role models. "That's how authentic I've been walking around since I was 12, 13. Claus as well. We were something like the two'Elvisse' at school, and we didn't want to take it off. They literally bathed in this image and also enjoyed this outsider role. "Nobody else was walking around like that." The term'Retro' was not yet an official part of German vocabulary - it applied to Ralf zur Linde and Claus-Peter Niem.

At the age of 13 Ralf is infected by a Beach Boys record given to him by a boy next door, because he doesn't know what to do with it. "I heard the thing up and down. For some reason, I was totally fascinated by the music. I still remember that I could not classify the music because I lacked the basic knowledge, but today it is of course clear to me that it was the complex vocal harmonies. They touched me in the depths of my soul."

So the detour to Doo Wop is via surf music. The record collection is being expanded, as far as Bad Wildungen and the surrounding area are concerned. It's not much, though. The rocket launch takes place at the age of 16: four-week student exchange with the USA, Ralf comes to San Francisco, browses through the record shops there, buys of course even more Beach Boys, but also many records of vocal groups, mostly from a label called Crystal Ball. His love is hot, but only now he knows her name: Doo Wop!

His patron is not the music teacher, but the history teacher. He has a recording studio in one of the many war bunkers still standing around in Bad Wildungen. Here Ralf is already introduced to the high art of arrangement. "My greatest desire was to sing in several voices myself, but I only had Claus by my side and two people still can't achieve full harmony. I had never heard of dubbing before, but it gave me two very satisfying songs with polyphonic vocals". At home, he goes even further: with two cassette recorders, he refines the structure of the harmonies: No. 1 is sung about, the second voice is played on no. 2, and on this result the third voice comes back to no. 1: "I was so happy as if I had invented the wheel". The parents, on the other hand, will have been surprised...

Excerpt from BCD17239 - CRYSTALAIRS Westwärts
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/crystalairs-westwaerts.html
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