Secondo voi, visto che Joe fu un musicista prima che scrittore, è plausibile che abbia preso il nome "Kraan" dato ai mostri alati dei Signori delle Tenebre da qua??


"Who is Kraan :

The Kraan history - written for theHerzberg festival program (2000) - Same in German

Pressrelease from 1975 - provides a good overview (as a graphic - size: 90 kb)

Kraan information lifted directly from The Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock : Kraan [Germany]

An excellent seventies jazz/rock/spacemusic band. Two of their mid seventies works, Andy Nogger and one other were released through Jem in the USA. I think. Hellmut Hattler's bass playing is excellent, the guitarist is superb, and they have a sax player who I think at times uses effects pedals and wah wah and can even sound like a keyboard player sometimes. They added keys later on. First couple LPs were classic space rock, and then they got a very refined sound, very fun, funky rock with a really spacey feel. Later LPs added keyboards to the original guitar, bass, drums, sax lineup. I think the Live double LP really stands out as a high point in their releases. The two LPs that made it out in the US are good, but I think are weakened a little by the vocals. I'm inclined to almost compare them to Steely Dan because of their excellant musicianship and pristine production on the later works, but they don't really sound at all like Steely Dan. The later LPs tend to get more slick and faster and faster to a point of near technical over-indulgence.


Hellmut Hattler - live in Denmark
Kraan is a primarily-instrumental outfit that blends the very best elements of fusion, funk, space and progressive - led by bassist extrordinaire Hellmut Hattler - into a unique style of their own. The early albums (through Let It Out) featured Johannes Pappert on sax, who did some pretty inventive stuff using special effects. With Let it Out they added a keyboardist and subsequently Pappert left, so the later albums have a slightly different feel. Most of their tracks are instrumentals, the few vocal tracks tend to be fairly eccentric. A good place to start is the Live album (a double LP on single CD) which contains the best material from the first three, or Let It Out. "


Se sì, mi domando a questo punto quanti altri nomi abbia preso dal mondo della musica...

Conoscendo la passione di Joe per il genere musicale che questi Kraan sembrano suonare, è probabilissimo che il nome derivi effettivamente da lì.

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