Gry is an

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band featuring

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female singer

Gry Bagøien Gry Bagøien, known as Gry, born in 1975 is a singer from Denmark. Biography Gry was born in Denmark in 1975. Until the age of 10 she was raised in Mozambique without seeing the western world. Gry was a member of now-defunct Æter, along wit ...

and

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musician

FM Einheit Frank-Martin Strauß, better known as F.M. Einheit and also known as Mufti, (born 18 December 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor from Germany. While primarily known for his percussion work with the influenti ...

(ex-

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). The music of Gry can be described as

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with elements of

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, live instruments, many loops and

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s (also

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samples) with a female voice. Their debut album ''The Touch Of E!'' was released in 1998, followed by live shows in

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and

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. Their second album ''Public Recording'' was made in 2000 in the Marstall Theater in

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during a public performance with numerous special guests:

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, Æter,

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, Terranova,

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, and

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. The song " Summer Wine" from this album, sung by

and

, is a cover-version of a

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song. In 2002,

left the band and Gry disbanded.

Band members

: electro, percussive and non-percussive instruments *

: vocals * Sjang Coenen: bass *

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: drums

Discography

Albums

* 1998 ''

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'' * 2000 ''

Public Recording Gry is an indie/electronic music band featuring Danish female singer Gry Bagøien and German musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten). The music of Gry can be described as electronic with elements of trip hop, live instruments, many l ...

Singles, MCDs

* 1998 ''Touch of Me'' * 1998 ''Remixes'' * 1998 ''Everything Or All'' * 1998 ''I Never Asked'' * 1999 ''Poles Apart'' * 2000 ''Rocket'' * 2000 ''Summer Wine'' * 2000 ''Princess Crocodile''

Other full-length releases

* 2000 ''Frost 79° 40 (Ammer /

F.M. Einheit Frank-Martin Strauß, better known as F.M. Einheit and also known as Mufti, (born 18 December 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor from Germany. While primarily known for his percussion work with the influential ...

/ Gry) — (Recorded live at the ''Stadttheater

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'' on 28 August 1998.)

External links

*
Gry Bagøien's official website

F.M. Einheit's official website

Saskia von Klitzing's Official site of
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