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}} ''Japandorf'' is a 2013 album by Klaus Dinger and several other musicians, released under the name "''Klaus Dinger + Japandorf''" by Grönland Records. It was recorded in the year before Dinger's death on Good Friday 2008 and is the only one of three albums made since 1998 to have been released. It was originally intended to be released as a La Düsseldorf album, but this was blocked at the last minute by Hans Lampe, the band's original drummer. ==Background and recording== In July 1998 Dinger disbanded La! Neu? after a final concert in Düsseldorf. After the concert he was approached by a Japanese artist named Masaki Nakao, who had moved to Düsseldorf from Japan in 1989. Over the next ten years Nakao and Dinger became close friends, and in 1999 Nakao introduced Dinger to a group of Japanese musicians living in Düsseldorf. Dinger organised a "festival" at his Zeeland studios〔http://www.dingerland.de/midsummer.html〕 for midsummer 1999, to which many of these Japanese musicians were invited (as well as a selection of Dinger's collaborators from 1966 onwards). Dinger was later to say that "Nakao opened the door to Japandorf".〔http://klausdinger.com/download/Japandorf_Press-release_EN.pdf〕 Dinger's first acquaintance was Kazuyuki Onouchi, who had studied traditional Japanese painting at Tama Art University. Onouchi was advised by his lecturer Noi Sawaragi to come to Düsseldorf if he wanted to pursue a career in music, which he subsequently did. Kazu's friend Miki Yui was also present at the Zeeland Festival. She was born in Tokyo, having moved to Düsseldorf in 1994 to pursue a career in installation art, particularly involving ambient sound recordings. Dinger, Nakao, Yui and Onouchi worked together with Victoria Wehrmeister, Andreas Reihse (both of La! Neu?), Maki Umehara and Thea Djordjadze the following year on an album named as "''Pre-Japandorf''"〔http://klausdinger.com/download/Japandorf_History_EN.pdf〕 and as yet unreleased. Recorded in tandem with this was a second album named "''Viva Remix''" (a remix of the La Düsseldorf album) to which Dinger, Yui, Nakao and Onouchi contributed along with Herbert Grönemeyer and Renate Dinger. Some time after the year 2000, Dinger and Miki Yui were married. In 2001 Satoshi Okamoto - a keyboard player from Kobe who had previously worked with J-Pop acts - came to Zeeland to join sessions for ''Viva Remix''. In the same year, Kazu helped Klaus to master the final La! Neu? album "''Live at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf''". ''Viva Remix'' was completed in 2003 and presented to various record labels without avail. The group returned to the studio to improve the album, but Dinger found it difficult to finance these sessions, having to sell much of his studio equipment. In the meantime, Onouchi and Okamoto began working together independently of the rest of the group, forming themselves into a band they named "sub-tle." (and full-stop part of band name. ) In the summer of 2007 the band travelled to Zeeland to work on a third album named "''Japandorf''". "Immermannstraße", "Udon" and "Spacemelo" (all songs which had developed over the previous eight years) were fully recorded during this period. Sessions continued in the spring of 2008, in which time "Cha Cha 2008", "Sketch No. 4", "Sketch No. 1_b" and finally "Karnival" were recorded. On 21 March 2008 (Good Friday) Dinger died in his sleep after a sudden heart attack, having almost completed the album. His will left his estate to Miki Yui, and she set about completing the album, writing and recording her vocals to "Spacemelo" amongst other things. In late 2008 Onouchi and Okamoto released their debut album as sub-tle. - "''pre_mary''" - on the Düsseldorf "Onpa)))))" label. Over the next three years Kazu and Miki mastered all three of the albums recorded since 1998, and Miki began to digitalise Dinger's video archive (also creating a new website: http://www.klausdinger.com/). In 2010 she collaborated with Michael Rother in the re-release of Neu! 4 and the Neu! Vinyl Box. In 2012 a photo-book covering Dinger's life was published by Slowboy〔ISBN 978-3-00-037427-2〕 and an associated exhibition held in Düsseldorf. On 25 March 2013 ''Japandorf'' was released by Grönland Records. Initial press shots of the album artwork show the La Düsseldorf logo in place of the "Klaus Dinger + Japandorf" sticker, but this was blocked by Hans Lampe, the only surviving member of the original La Düsseldorf. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Japandorf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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