01	Get It Up						05:21
	02	Big Brother						05:05
	03	Rock'n'Roll Preacher						03:39
	04	Maybe It's Useless						03:38
	05	Let's Get On The Road Again						03:30
	06	Living At The End Of Time						09:04
	07	Words Of Love						04:52
	08	Get On Board						03:45
	09	Change My Mind						04:29
	10	The Man						03:44
	11	Let Me Stay For A While						03:55
	12	Keep The Music Going On						02:48
	13	Chartbuster						03:12
	14	The Captain And The Ship						03:45
	15	If I Couldn't Sing						03:36
	16	Tried To Climb A Mountain						04:32
	17	Mainline Florida (single A-side)						02:55

"Atlantis", 1972

Inga Rumpf - vocals
Jean-Jacques Kravetz - keyboards
Frank Diez - guitars
Karl-Heinz Schott - bass
Curt Cress - drums

"Get On Board", Vertigo, 1975

Inga Rumpf - vocals
Adrian M. Askew - keyboards, vocals
Frank Diez - guitars, vocals
Rainer Marz - guitars, vocals
Karl-Heinz Schott - bass, vocals
Ringo Funk - drums, percussion, vocals

ATLANTIS
Personnel:
INGA RUMPF v
KARL-HEINZ SCHOTT b
(JEAN-JAQUES KRAVETZ kb) A,B
ADRIAN ASKEW kb C
FRANK DIEZ g A,D
(DIETER BORNSCHLEGEL g) B
ALEX CONTI g C
(CURT CRESS d) A
RINGO FUNK d B,C
REINER MARZ g D
ALBUMS:
(A)same (Vertigo 6360 609) 1972
(B)"It's Getting Better" (Vertigo 6360 614) 1973
(C)"Ooh Baby" (Vertigo 6360 621) 1974
(A-C)"Live" (2LP) (Vertigo 6360 900) 1975
(D)"Get On Board" (Vertigo 6360 630) 1975
(D)"Top Of The Bill" (Venus V78AT 1002) 1972

Atlantis also released three singles for Vertigo.
1 & 2 were also re-released on CD by Repertoire circa 1992.
When Frumpy disbanded in 1972, three of the members formed the 'super group' Atlantis, named after Plato's mythical continent that sank into the water. Vocalist Inga Rumpf was arguably the German answer to Janis Joplin with her distinct, gutsy blues voice. Along with Rumpf from Frumpy came Jean-Jaques Kravetz and Karl-Heinz Schott. The two additional members of Atlantis had recently left Emergency Frank Diez and Curt Cress. The band soon secured a contract with the German branch of Vertigo. Their first album was recorded in London and had a laid-back US West Coast feel to the music. The keyboards were quite dominant, and Rumpf of course sang the some blues and soul influenced tracks in her characteristic way. Along with Diez, she composed all of the songs. Cress and Diez quit the group again at the same time as the album was released. Dieter Bornschlegel became the new guitarist and Ringo Funk from Jeronimo took up the drums. It's Getting Better (1973) was similar to the first album but had an Afro-percussion player guesting on three tracks to make a more funky sound. There were further changes in the line-up when Jean-Jaques Kravetz quit to record a solo album (and then join Randy Pie). Bornschlegel also soon left Atlantis. Their replacements in time for the third album Ooh, Baby (1974) were Adrian Askew and Alex Conti, the latter had previously played guitar in Curly Curve. These two new members wrote most of the new material, which veered still closer towards funky soul rock. Tile double live album released in 1975 contained different live recordings from 1973-1975. In the Summer of 1975 the group was again transformed. Diez was brought back along with a second guitarist, Rainer Marz (ex-Jeronimo), for Get On Board (1975). This had a rockier sound, but was a less inspired work than the previous albums. One further LP was recorded, but not released until 1978. Atlantis finally disbanded in 1976. The group had, particularly during their first two years of existence, considerable commercial success in Germany. Inga Rumpf has since recorded several solo albums.




Atlantis [Germany]
Updated 12/30/02
Discography
Atlantis (73)
It's Getting Better (73)
Atlantis (74)
Ooh Baby (74)
Get On Board (75)
Atlantis Live (75)
Alley Cat (76)
Top Of The Bill (78)


Reviews
Regarding Atlantis (1973):
Atlantis was an energetic German blues rock band that emerged from the ruins of the musically-similar Frumpy, which featured Atlantis' lead vocalist Inga Rumpf and keyboard player Jean-Jacques Kravetz. Rumpf is a decent enough songwriter who has an extremely raspy, tough alto voice that sounds more like a man's than Janis Joplin's ever did. She certainly doesn't sound like a "chick" vocalist, at any rate. Kravetz is a pretty good rock'n'roll pianist / organist in the mold of Deep Purple's Jon Lord, or perhaps Brian Auger. Guitarist Frank Diez and drummer Curt Cress impart a fusiony toughness to the music, though only about half of the tunes on the band's first LP could be considered progressive or fusiony at all. Diez' "Rock'n'Roll Preacher" and Rumpf's "Let's Get On The Road Again" are pretty much straight-ahead boogie-rockers. Kravetz' "Maybe It's Useless" is a bluesy ballad.
There are, of course, some exceptions. Diez' composition "Living At The End Of Time" is a 9-minute-long tour de force of muscular, blues-charged psych-prog oddness. Rumpf's other two compositions, "Get Up" and "Big Brother", also verge on progressive rock in a substantial way. She really has a flair for integrating odd little instrumental jazzy bits into her pieces ("Get Up", "Big Brother"). Though I could see where some wouldn't think of it as progressive rock in a strict sense, Atlantis' debut is worth checking out if you like hard rock with a prog-fusion twist. The band's subsequent LPs are more conservative, and sound more-or-less like Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and a host of others - mainstream hard-rock and blues with "big" keyboards and progressive touches around the edges. -- Dave Wayne