Jan Fride Wolbrandt

German drummer from Ulm in the Krautrock era, born March 8, 1952 in Düsseldorf. Most used artist name: "Jan Fride". Younger brother of Peter Wolbrandt. Hellmut Hattler and Johannes Pappert were together with Jan Fride in a group called "Progressive Jazz Group Ulm". All members were still in school and Jan Fride played drums in the band. Later, he founded a Rock band called "Inzest" in 1968 together with Hellmut Hattler and Peter Wolbrandt, who studied in Berlin before. Also Jan Fride decided to go to Berlin and to study photography. In 1969, "Inzest" considered to become a professional band and in 1970, the three musicians together with Johannes Pappert founded the first incarnation of Kraan. However, after a short period in Berlin Hattler returned to Ulm, as he had a dispute with the band, left and settled to Wintrup, near Paderborn, where he was invited by Progressive Rock band Erna Schmidt, a band from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. The band lived at the farm in Wintrup as a community and the musicians invited the other musicians from Kraan, including Jan Fride, which led to a state, where the other Kraan members moved in, but at the same time, the band Erna Schmidt split and one after the other of their musicians left Wintrup. It turned out, that both bands were not much compatible to each other. It was 1971 and Kraan reformed in Wintrup, Hattler was again part of the band and in the rural area of Wintrup, they lived together in a community in this farm, which was built in the 5th century. In the following years, Jan Fride Wolbrandt was part of Kraan and recorded with them their first 6 albums. In 1977, Kraan split and Jan Fride left the band. From 1975 already, he supported various contemporary bands and he also was active as guest musician on some albums of his former bandmates. In 1981, Jan Fride returned to Kraan and was their drummer on their 1982 album "Nachtfahrt". After that album, he left the band. Anyway, starting from 1988, he still was part of many reincarnations of the band. Additionally, Jan Fride Wolbrandt appeared on many projects in the time after 1982, many of them connected with his former bandmates. He was also regularly part of the German Downtempo Jazz band De‐Phazz. Together with his wife Willa, he also ran a head shop in Radolfzellfor many years. There he also distributed his photographic art. Jan Fride is also involved in virtual artistic projects.