Achim Reichel
(born on January 28, 1944) is a musician, producer and songwriter from Hamburg, Germany. He is known for his 1991 single "Aloha Heja He", as well as for having fronted British Invasion-influenced band The Rattles
, who, among other achievements, were selected to open for The Beatles on the Fabs'
last-ever tour of Europe in 1966.
In 1968, he co-founded the psychedelic rock group Wonderland which also included English ex-patriate Les Humphries who would soon start his own Les Humphries Singers. In 1971, Reichel left the group for his own progressive Krautrock solo project, A. R. & Machines
, of which the first album Die grüne Reise (The green journey)
was critically acclaimed and likened to bands such as Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. Since 1975, Reichel has taken a keen interest in recording traditional German songs and classic poetry as modern-style music, which includes such albums as Dat Shanty Alb'm
(1975), Klabautermann
(1977), Regenballade
(1978), Fledermaus
(1988), Melancholie & Sturmflut
(1991, including the hit Aloha Heja He
), Wilder Wassermann
(2002), and Volxlieder
(2006).
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