Biography
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Years Active
1999 – present (25 years)
There are currently two artists known as Parzival:
1) Parzival. German 1970's band from Bremen, mixing pop, avant-garde, classical and medieval musics.
Originating in 1965 as The Chamberlains (with singer/guitarist Lothar Siems and drummer Thomas Olivier), in 1967 they joined up with multi-instrumental talent Walter Quintus, and went on to tour France under the guise of Siems/Quintus/Olivier. Quintus was an accomplished classically trained musician, a sound explorer who had tried his hand at many things. In 1969, after graduating musical studies at the Beazzic Conservatory they re-baptised the band Parzival, after the folklore legend.
2) Parzival. Founded in 1999, Pazival is a Russian electro-industrial group based in Denmark, which grew out of a previous project called Stiff Miners. Heavily influenced by Kapital-era Laibach, the group creates an bombastic neo-classical music with electronic percussion, plenty of string and horn samples, and dramatic vocals mainly in german. In 2002 the group founded its own Danish based label Liberte Records for future releases. The band plays live on occasion, with a constantly shifting line up.
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