On September 9th the German guitarist, electronic musician and one of the pioneers of the Berlin School Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel / Ashra / Manuel Göttsching) turned 70. The whole M.i.G. team sends birthday greetings to Berlin. Above all, stay healthy, Manuel, and may you never run out of ideas and inspiration.
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It was in the year 1981 when Belgian electronic musician Michel Huygen and his Spanish colleague Carlos Guirao, both better known as Neuronium, met with Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, better known as Vangelis, to record a joint session in London.
Michel Huygen remembers: “The music we played together starting from my score, was flowing, flowing so fast and smoothly between the (more…)
Ralf Kothe studied music in East Berlin, graduated as a music teacher for guitar and composition, is a sought-after studio musician as well as a composer and arranger of numerous film scores and advertising trailers. In 1987 Ralf Kothe released his first instrumental album “Regendurst (Gitarrenballaden I)” on the state-run GDR label Amiga, followed by his second Amiga production “Die Andere Seite (Gitarrenballaden (more…)
Dieter Schütz, born in Flensburg/Germany in 1955, was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist who unfortunately died at the age of only 36. Shortly before his death, he founded the pop rock trio Deja Vue together with his partner Ulla Witt and his friend Adelbert von Deyen. The album “Nightflight” was released in 2004 at the instigation of Adelbert von Deyen. Germany’s electronic legend Klaus (more…)
“Mas Hysteria” was the absolute high flyer in 1980. A live album in a blank LP sleeve with an amateur cover pasted on it to make it look like this was a bootleg. Only In Germany, “Mas Hysteria” sold more than 250,000 copies. The centerpiece of the album was a 12-minute, almost hypnotic version of “Sittin’ In The Dark,” which Carolyne had released (more…)
Dé Danann was an Irish folk band from which several successful soloists like Maura O’Connel, Mary Black, Caroline Lavelle and Dolores Keane (US Americana & Country star Nancy Griffith: “Dolores Keane, the queen of the soul of Ireland”) emerged. In 1976 the five Irishmen from County Galway were in the studio of Conny Plank in Wolperath near Cologne (Germany) to produce their album (more…)
Without any doubt, the trumpeter Manfred Schoof belongs to the first generation of jazz musicians in Germany, who very early developed a very own European signature in this form of music and thus no longer simply emulated American models. The rich fund of church scales was just as essential for him as influences from the so-called New Music. Schoof had already been active (more…)
In 2010, aged 63, Kate McGarrigle sadly died of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
On Monday, April 22, 2005, Kate and Anna McGarrigle performed at Radio Bremen’s broadcast hall. Anna remembers:
“Our second French record “La vache qui pleure” had just been released in Europe and we were touring in support of it. At that time, the core group consisted of Kate (more…)
Two who searched and found each other:
Nash Albert and Georgian singer, actress and model Musia Totibadze (75k followers on Instagram) harmonize wonderfully with their voices on the acoustic duet – version of the track “Marabella” from Nash’s current album “Yet”:
Musia comes from a family of artists, she is the niece of the famous Georgian painter and illustrator Gogi Totibadze, his brother (more…)