Nine Days’ Wonder

The Bacillus Years

  • 3CD
  • Date : 29.08.2025
  • Package : CD Digipack

Nine Days’ Wonder – The Bacillus Years

Nine Days’ Wonder (NDW for short) was founded back in 1966, when singer and frontman Walter Seyffer gave his band The Graves a new name.

Like so many “beat groups” in the mid-1960s, NDW started out as a cover band. The line-up changed constantly until the early 1970s, when the first more stable formation emerged with Walter Seyffer (vocals), Rolf Henning (guitar), Karl Mutschlechner (bass), John Earle (saxophone, flute, guitar) and Martin Roscoe (drums).

In 1971, the quintet recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in Germany on Bellaphon and in England on Harvest in the same year. In the summer of 1972, Nine Days’ Wonder broke up at short notice; Walter Seyffer joined the psychedelic rock band Medusa, where he met bassist Michael Bundt. Since the quintet had only released one single on CBS, Nine Days’ Wonder was reformed in December 1972.

The new line-up consisted of four Medusa members (Seyffer, Bundt, guitarist Hans Frauenschuh and keyboardist/saxophonist Freddie Münster) as well as drummer Karl-Heinz “Hyanzintus” Weiler. In the summer of 1973, the second Nine Days’ Wonder album, “We Never Lost Control”, was released on Bacillus/Bellaphon. In 1974, Rolf Henning returned. Sid Gautama replaced “Hyanzintus” Weiler on drums. The third NDW album, “Only The Dancers,” was recorded at Chipping Norton Studios in the UK by Mike and Richard Vernon, with Dave Jackson from Van der Graaf Generator, among others. A year later, the personnel carousel spun again. With a new line-up, the last album “Sonnet To Billy Frost” was released in 1976, after which the band finally split up.

Now, at the end of August, all four albums are being re-released under the title “The Bacillus Years”, remastered and including bonus tracks (the Maternal Joy aka NDW single “Ticket to the North Pole / Fat”, 1971).

 

Tracklist:

CD1

“Nine Days Wonder”

  1. Fermillon / Puppet Dance / Square / Hope? / Morning Spirit / Fermillon Himself 15:49
  2. Moss Had Come 03:27
  3. Apple Tree 06:45
  4. Drag Dilemma / Montony 1 / Stomach's Choice / Monotony 2 / Interlude / Dilemma 12:48

Maternal Joy 7’’ single

  1. Ticket To The Northpole [Bonus Track] 03:01
  2. Fat [Bonus Track] 02:42

“We Never Lost Control”

  1. Days In Bright Light 05:38
  2. Fisherman's Dream 03:50
  3. Andromeda Nomads 05:31
  4. The Great Game 03:27
  5. Angels Due To Arrive 04:28
  6. We Grasp The Naked Meat 09:14
  7. Armaranda 03:23

 

CD2

“Only The Dancers”

  1. Long Distance Line 05:22
  2. Only The Dancers 03:01
  3. It's Not My Fault 04:35
  4. Frustration 02:53
  5. Hovercraft Queen 03:40
  6. Time Is Due 05:40
  7. The Way I'm Living 05:41
  8. Moment 08:01

 

CD3

“Sonnet To Billy Frost”

  1. Alchemists 05:27
  2. I Need A Rest 04:06
  3. In Memory Of Sir Hillary 03:26
  4. Five Minute Musical (Uncle Franky /
    Silver Forest) 05:50
  5. Turn And Go On 04:06
  6. Sonnet To Billy Frost 06:25
  7. Empty Frame 03:58
  8. Almost October 03:52
  9. Jamie 03:45
  10. You're Always All Alone With The
    Things You Love 05:38
  11. I Need A Rest 01:13

 

Total: 166:42 min.