Artist description Solo guitar performance.I play Jazz and Blues music. Sometimes I use a guitar synth. The rythm tracks are produced with synths and other midi-equipment.

Music Style Jazz/Blues

Musical Influences Charly Mingus/Robben Ford/Terje Rypdal/BB. King

Similar Artists Robben Ford/Terje Rypdal/Grant Green/Eric Clapton/Kenny Burell/John Scofield/Chet Baker/Charlie Mingus/Miles Davis/Wes Montgomery

Artist History As for everybody else for me music became more important at the age of 14 or 15. Somebody at school gave me a record of Buddy Guy, recorded at the European Blues Festival in 1964- and I loved it and listened to it repeatedly. I started to learn some chords and single note lines, but for some reasons about 30 years had passed before I started to study guitar seriously at the age of 44.So I can tell you no success-story as you often find: "Started to play guitar at five and performed my first gig at seven, became professional musician at 12 and guitar-hero at 14". Now I am 49, play guitar, have still a lot of things to learn. I´m inquisitive. Fortunately, I have a great guitar teacher. He encourages me to compose my own songs and to try out new things, I am interested in: new sounds, strange chord progressions, old-fashioned jazz guitar licks of the 60th´s and ethnic licks from different parts of the world.My viewpoint of music is that there is good music in different genres. Music that is important for me often is not the one with the hi-Tec level of technical skills. It has to have soul. I find this kind of music, which touches my soul in jazz, blues, classic and ethnic music. I try to combine aspects of different styles in my song writing. In the last 2 years, I visited Turkey and other countries of the near and middle east (as we say in Germany) and so I tried to include my perception of the ethnic music of these regions in my music. I had always been envious on the keyboarders, which are able to program and use synthesisers. Therefore, I bought a guitar-synthesizer and use it to realize my sound ideas. The next recordings I want to do will introduce some other musicians to my records. We are working on it, but still need some time.Because I am a painter, too (www.webgalerie-bonn.de) I will more try to combine painting and music. There is a concept to design paintings and songs, which belong together. I am working on it.

Group Members myself

Instruments electric guitar,acoustic guitar, e-bow guitar, guitar-synth

Albums "Eurabia" and "Turkish Coffee"

Additional Info artwork by Ludger Hesse at http://www.webgalerie-bonn.de

Location Bonn - Germany

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