Nine Days' Wonder The Bacillus Years (3-CD)

The line-up changed constantly until the early 1970s, when the first more stable formation emerged with Walter Seyffer (vocals), Rolf Henning (guitar), Karl Mutschlechner (bass), John Earle (sax, flute, guitar) and Martin Roscoe (drums). In 1971, the quintet recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in Germany on the Bellaphon label and in England on the Harvest label in the same year. In the summer of 1972, Nine Days Wonder broke up at short notice, Walter Seyffer joined the psychedelic rock band Medusa, where he met bassist Michael Bundt. Since the quintet only released one single on CBS, Nine Days Wonder reformed in December 1972. Four Medusa members (Seyffer, Bundt, guitarist Hans Frauenschuh, and keyboardist/saxophonist Freddie Münster) and drummer Karl-Heinz “Hyanzintus” Weiler formed the new lineup. In the summer of 1973, the second Nine Days Wonder album, “We Never Lost Control,” was released on Bacillus/Bellaphon.
In 1974, Rolf Henning returned, Sid Gautama replaced “Hyanzintus” Weiler on drums, and the third NDW album, “Only The Dancers,” was recorded at Chipping Norton Studios in the UK by Mike and Richard Vernon, with Dave Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator, among others. A year later, the personnel merry-go-round spun again, and with a new line-up, the last album, “Sonet To Billy Frost,” was released in 1976, after which the band finally broke up. Now all four albums have been remastered and re-released under the title “The Bacillus Years,” including bonus tracks (the Maternal Joy aka NDW single “Ticket To The Northpole / Fat,” 1971).