Discography Albums YearĬall Me Easy, Say I'm Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain't Wrong This new album, Yonder, was released in May 2014. Prior to the re-release of their remastered debut album Rainbirds, it was announced in September 2013 that a new album had been recorded with Katharina Franck as singer, drummer Bela Brauckmann, and electronic musician Gunter Papperitz. In 2013, the Rainbirds reformed with a new line-up. Drummer Tim Lorenz operates a recording studio in Berlin. slow motion cinema) on Mute Records in 2002.Īlso Ulrike Haage, after recording numerous audio plays and composing theatre music, presented a solo album Sélavy in 2004. Katharina Franck continued a solo career that had already begun in 1997 with a spoken word album Hunger and published a second solo album Zeitlupenkino ( lit. In the following years the band published two studio albums, Making Memory (1996) and Forever (1997), as well as a live album rainbirds3000.live (1999), their last release. Drummer Tim Lorenz joined them in 1994 as a third member. They released two albums in this line-up: Two Faces (1991) and In a Different Light (1993). Corbijn who was known for his photographs of bands like Depeche Mode and U2 became the Rainbird's favourite photographer in the following years.Īfter this album, the band separated and Katharina Franck reformed the Rainbirds as a duo with piano player Ulrike Haage. In the spring of 1989, the second album Call Me Easy, Say I'm Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain't Wrong was released, with a video clip by director and photographer Anton Corbijn. Due to a concert tour, guitarist Rodrigo González became a member of the Rainbirds. The band's first line-up included Katharina Franck (guitar, vocals), Michael Beckmann (bass), and Wolfgang Glum (drums). Their first album Rainbirds was produced in the Audio Studios of Berlin and became a success, the single 'Blueprint' enjoyed attention across Europe in 1988. When they won the Rock competition of the Senate of Berlin, they were contracted by Mercury Records. The band formed in 1986 and named themselves after an instrumental track by Tom Waits.

Their greatest hit is the song 'Blueprint'. The Rainbirds are a German pop rock band established in 1986 around singer Katharina Franck.

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