Real Ax Band

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German Fusion band, late 1970s. A collection of Embryo affiliates venturing on to pastures new with a more accessible music than most Schneeball jazz-based bands, drawing on Latino, Afro and funk styles. Marlon Klein and Toffi Mache founded the Real Ax Band in the unusually long, unusually hot summer of 1976 when mercury was exploring rarely visited barometric heights. Between then and early 1977 people came and went while the group played dozens of small Beatschuppen and clubs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Early in 1977 the line-up that made this album coalesced when Maria Archer, Heinz-Otto Gwiasda and Dieter Miekautsch entered the frame. Maria Archer and Dieter Miekautsch were newly returned from Africa and were looking for a new band with whom they could perform. Both had already worked with Embryo, a chimera of a collective first founded in 1969 that defied - and defies - any stab at tidy-mindedness or attempt at musical compartmentalisation. By 2000 some fool calculated that Embryo had had more than 300 collaborators pass through its ranks, so, historically speaking, Maria Archer and Dieter Miekautsch figure as relatively early participants in Embryo's experiment - the kind of experiment that Georg Capellen predicted as early as 1906 and dubbed Weltmusik or 'world music' in English. Of course, the Real Ax Band was a young band very much stamped in the temper of its time. It mixed and matched rock, jazz, soul and Latino elements in ways that showed off influenc

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Move Your Ass in Time

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Glücklich

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Umsonst und draussen 1978

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Glücklich I

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Just Vibrations - Live at the Quartier Latin Berlin - 1978

Move Your Ass In Time - Nicht stehen bleiben

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Jazzkraut (Teutonal Jazz Rock Excursions)

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Glucklich 1

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Umsonst und draussen 1976

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Glucklich

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Rainer Truby - Glucklich I

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Umsonst und draussen 1977

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