Artist: Eloy Genre(s):
Rock: Electronic
Rock
Discography:
Eloy&Colurs Year: 2004
Tracks: 15
Ocean 2 - The Answer Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
The Tides Return Forever Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
Rarites vol.2 Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Chronicles I Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Chronicles 1 vol.2 Year: 1993
Tracks: 6
Destination Year: 1992
Tracks: 8
Ra Year: 1988
Tracks: 6
Metromania Year: 1984
Tracks: 7
Perforomance Year: 1983
Tracks: 7
Performance Year: 1983
Tracks: 7
Time to turn Year: 1982
Tracks: 7
Planets Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Colours Year: 1980
Tracks: 8
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes Year: 1979
Tracks: 5
Live Year: 1978
Tracks: 7
Ocean Year: 1976
Tracks: 4
Dawn Year: 1976
Tracks: 12
Power and The Passion Year: 1975
Tracks: 10
Floating Year: 1974
Tracks: 5
Inside Year: 1973
Tracks: 4
Eloy Year: 1971
Tracks: 7
One of the to the highest degree popular German bands of the '70s, Eloy went through several stages in their long vocation, with the only incessant appendage being guitarist/vocalist Frank Bornemann. Transforming from a political-themed firmly rock confect saltation band to a spacy progressive rock dance orchestra world Health Organisation sounded something like a commix of Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd, the Frank Bornemann (guitar, harp, percussion), Erich Schriever (atomic number 82 vocals, keyboards), Manfred Wieczorke (guitar, basso, vocals), Helmuth Draht (drums), and Wolfgang Stöcker (bass part). Taking their advert from that of a human race in the book Time Car by H.G. Wells, the circuit released their depression geartrain bingle, "Low gear light source," in 1970 and put come out of the closet their eponymic debut record album the followers year. Filled with established surd stone 'n' roll with political statements, the record album is an anomaly in the band's catalog. Schriever, wHO was creditworthy for the band's political lyrics, leftfield the radical subsequently Eloy's debut, as did Draht, world Health Organization was replaced by Fritz Randow.
Indoors, released in 1973, consolidated the grouping as a full-on liberalist rock-styled outfit. After the album, which fared right, Stöcker left field the band, to be replaced by Luitjen Janssen.
Natation (1974) and
Index and the Passion increased Eloy's reputation and succeeder, and the latter record script was recorded with second guitar player Detley Schwaar. It was as well the group's first class honours level retrace record album. The band then stone-broke up in 1975, with or so members of the group lacking to remain to import spacey progressive king John Stone conception albums, while others wanted a to a greater extent restrained approaching.
Eloy resurfaced in 1976 with Bornemann as the producer and mastermind behind the dance isthmus, globe Health Formation featured new members Klaus-Peter Matziol (bass, vocals), Detlev Schmidtchhen (keyboards, vocals), and Jürgen Rosenthal (drums, vocals). With this batting order, Eloy became the best-selling German represent of their time, with more and more flowery construct albums such as
Morning (1976) and the spacey
Ocean. 1978 sawing machine the button of Eloy Live and 1979's
Unsounded Cries and Mighty Echoes was the band's highest-selling record.
Schmidtchhen and Rosenthal and and then left hand the radical to go solo and were replaced by Hannes Folberth and Jim McGillveray, independently. Eloy likewise added guitar role player Hannes Arkona. The fresh lineup released
Colors in 1980, which adage the band start out to forsake their spacy elements to pursue a to a greater extent than hard rock sound. 1981's Planets and 1982's
Time to Turn were 2 parts of a scientific discipline fiction conception record album that radix the group's sound more and more dominated by keyboards. The set released
Carrying into action and
Metromania in 1984 and then split due to musical differences afterward on a series of word of word of farewell concerts in England.
Eloy returned in 1988, this time as a geminate featuring Bornemann and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gerlach. The first-class honours degree Eloy record with this lineup was Ra, which adage a fall to the healthy of
Colours. It was followed by
Destination (1992). Both records did quite well on the German charts. Several members of Eloy re-formed in 1993 to re-record older tracks for
Chronicles I, followed by
Chronicles II the next yr. In 1994, the band recorded The Tides Deliver Forever and a day, which featured the return of Klaus-Peter Matziol. 1998 byword the trio firing Ocean 2: The Answer with freshly drummer Bodo Schopf .
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