S.Y.P.H. "Punkraut 1978-1981"
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With their unpredictable live performances and songs such as "Zurück zum Beton" and "Industriemädchen", S.Y.P.H. caused a ruckus at the end of the 70s - as one of the bands that began to write lyrics in German around Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof. Right from the start, the band broke with genre-conformist expectations and borrowed from rock, punk and kraut just as much as from Dadaism and the reality of everyday life. After the first album and several singles (re-issued on Tapete Records in December 2024), the band produced two more albums - Pst and S.Y.P.H. (album 4) - together with CAN's Holger Czukay. Tapete Records is now releasing both albums and a collection of previously unreleased rarities - Punkraut 1978-1981. This compilation contains rare and previously unreleased recordings from the first three years of the band's history: The songs "Blech" and "Mondpogo", performed live at S.Y.P.H.'s first concert in Düsseldorf's Carsch-Haus in 1978 and five recordings made in nearby Solingen between 1978 and 1979. There are also three studio recordings from the Hamburg Container Studios in December 1981 - recordings from a time when "the band had finally abandoned punk as a musical genre as well as the influence of interim producer Holger Czukay and had found a style all of their own". (Kurt Dahlke, DAF)
