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 calling, with the just incessant outgrowth organism guitarist/vocalist Frank Bornemann. Transforming from a political-themed hard rock candy candy dance band to a spacy progressive rock'n'roll band world Health Organization sounded something like a amalgamate 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 (sea bass part). Taking their diagnose from that of a human race in the book Time Machine by H.G. Wells, the rotary released their low paraphernalia single, "First light," in 1970 and put extinct their eponymic debut album the next twelvemonth. Filled with established surd rock 'n' roll with political statements, the album is an anomaly in the band's catalogue. Schriever, wHO was responsible for the band's political lyrics, left the mathematical group subsequently Eloy's debut, as did Draht, wHO was replaced by Fritz Randow.
Inside, released in 1973, consolidated the group as a full-on progressive rock-styled outfit. After the album, which fared decent, Stöcker left the band, to be replaced by Luitjen Janssen. Floating (1974) and Index and the Passion increased Eloy's reputation and success, and the latter record book was recorded with second guitar player Detley Schwaar. It was as well the group's first-class honours degree construct album. The band then stone-broke up in 1975, with some members of the group lacking to continue to spell spacey progressive john Rock conception albums, while others wanted a more restrained approaching.
Eloy resurfaced in 1976 with Bornemann as the producer and originator behind the dance band, world Health Organization 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 act of their meter, with more and more flowery concept albums such as Morning (1976) and the spacey Ocean. 1978 saw the release of Eloy Live and 1979's Unsounded Cries and Mighty Echoes was the band's highest-selling record.
Schmidtchhen and Rosenthal and then left the radical to go solo and were replaced by Hannes Folberth and Jim McGillveray, severally. Eloy likewise added guitar player Hannes Arkona. The new lineup released Colors in 1980, which saw the band start to forsake their spacy elements to pursue a more than hard rock sound. 1981's Planets and 1982's Time to Turn were two parts of a science fiction conception album that base the group's sound progressively dominated by keyboards. The band released Performance and Metromania in 1984 and then split due to musical differences later on a series of word of farewell concerts in England.
Eloy returned in 1988, this time as a pair featuring Bornemann and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gerlach. The first Eloy record with this lineup was Ra, which byword a return 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 Return Forever, which featured the return of Klaus-Peter Matziol. 1998 byword the trinity release Ocean 2: The Answer with new drummer Bodo Schopf .
