“There’s the one where you capture what you hear, whereas someone like Conny Plank created a world in sound using the studio as an instrument. It’s a way of designing the sound in the studio.

It was the beginning of a fruitful collaboration and two extraordinary international careers: Kraftwerk became one of the most influential German bands, and Conny Plank one of the most important ...

In July 1970, Duke Ellington recorded two tunes engineered by Conny Plank. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says The Conny Plank Session, which is now on CD, is a window onto Ellington's working method.

In some sense, this 4CD box set represents the merest glimpse of a secret history of European pop music; a history to which uber-producer Conny Plank is the key. Plank was a common thread in many of ...

Plank’s studio was in a converted farmhouse in Neunkirchen, 30km east of Cologne. “His mixing desk had been modified so that with one finger he could simultaneously deploy echo and panning ...

Forty-five years later, the results can be heard. "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra’s The Conny Plank Session", to be released on July 10th by Grönland, documents the almost improbable meeting of ...

Rother’s newly formed duo with drummer Klaus Dinger. Along with producer Conny Plank, he was fleshing out the 10-minute instrumental “Hallogallo,” conjuring plumes of melody that would swirl ...

The place is Cologne, Germany. The Scorpions are in the recording studio, about to lay down their debut album, Lonesome Crow, with producer Conny Plank. But first they have an important decision ...

When the Conny Plank estate revealed that they owned a recording of the experimental German producer and jazz great Duke Ellington in the studio together, it was indeed a surprise. Perhaps the ...

Four-CD box set honours the great Krautrock producer and collaborator... When Conny Plank is credited as the man that produced the lion’s share of great experimental German music between the ...