Achim Reichel is a musician

Musician

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, producer

Record producer

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 and songwriter

Songwriter

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 from Hamburg

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, Germany

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. He is known for his 1991 single "Aloha Heja He", and serving as the frontman for the 1960s beat group The Rattles

The Rattles

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, who, among other achievements, were selected to open for The Beatles

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 on the Fabs' last-ever tour of Europe in 1966.

In 1968, he co-founded the psychedelic pop

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 group Wonderland, which also included English ex-patriate Les Humphries who would soon start his own Les Humphries Singers

Les Humphries Singers

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. In 1971, Reichel left the group for his own progressive Krautrock

Krautrock

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 solo project, A. R. & Machines, of which the first album Die grüne Reise (The green journey) was critically acclaimed and likened to bands such as Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

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 and Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

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.

Since 1975, Reichel has taken a keen interest in recording traditional German songs and classic poetry as modern-style music, which includes such albums as Dat Shanty Alb'm (1975), Klabautermann (1977), Regenballade (1978), Fledermaus (1988), Melancholie & Sturmflut (1991, including the hit "Aloha Heja He"), Wilder Wassermann (2002), and Volxlieder (2006).

Discography

• AR3 (1972)
• AR IV (1973)
• Erholung (1974)
• Autovision (1974)
• Dat Shanty Alb'm (1976)
• Klabautermann (1977)
• Regenballade (1977)
• Heiße Scheibe (1979)
• Ungeschminkt (1980)
• Eine Ewigkeit Unterwegs (1986)
• Fledermaus (1988)
• Melancholie Und Sturmflut (1991)
• Wahre Liebe (1993)
• Nachtexpress (1994)

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