Biography
Anyone's Daughter emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a symphonic prog rock outfit whose sound drew strong inspiration from Genesis along with German acts including Elroy and Grobschnitt. The ensemble disbanded during the mid-1980s yet resurfaced in 2000.
Formed in 1978, the quartet comprised Uwe Karpa on guitars, Matthias Ulmer handling keyboards and vocals, Harald Bareth on bass and lead vocals, and Kono Konopik behind the drums. Their debut release, Adonis (1979), delivered English-language vocals across expansive tracks that alternated reflective passages with aggressive sections while spotlighting an assertive keyboard palette, especially the extensive deployment of Moogs. The self-titled Anyone's Daughter (1980) shifted the group toward more concise compositions, whereas 1981's Piktors Verwandlungen marked their most adventurous statement; there the musicians first adopted German lyrics, captured the album live as a concept work drawn from Hermann Hesse's novel Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies, and incorporated multiple spoken-word segments. Although In Blau (1982) nodded occasionally to earlier triumphs, it again changed direction by embracing a direct style that reached its fullest expression on Neue Sterne (1983). Konopik departed at that juncture, succeeded by Peter Schmidt for the subsequent Live (1984). A short-lived reunion occurred in 1986 that brought several additional musicians into the fold. Following more than ten years of inactivity, the band reconvened around Karpa and Ulmer, augmented by three fresh members, to issue the 2001 CD Danger World.
Formed in 1978, the quartet comprised Uwe Karpa on guitars, Matthias Ulmer handling keyboards and vocals, Harald Bareth on bass and lead vocals, and Kono Konopik behind the drums. Their debut release, Adonis (1979), delivered English-language vocals across expansive tracks that alternated reflective passages with aggressive sections while spotlighting an assertive keyboard palette, especially the extensive deployment of Moogs. The self-titled Anyone's Daughter (1980) shifted the group toward more concise compositions, whereas 1981's Piktors Verwandlungen marked their most adventurous statement; there the musicians first adopted German lyrics, captured the album live as a concept work drawn from Hermann Hesse's novel Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies, and incorporated multiple spoken-word segments. Although In Blau (1982) nodded occasionally to earlier triumphs, it again changed direction by embracing a direct style that reached its fullest expression on Neue Sterne (1983). Konopik departed at that juncture, succeeded by Peter Schmidt for the subsequent Live (1984). A short-lived reunion occurred in 1986 that brought several additional musicians into the fold. Following more than ten years of inactivity, the band reconvened around Karpa and Ulmer, augmented by three fresh members, to issue the 2001 CD Danger World.
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