on the road…to me it means continuosly arriving someplace else. learning and experiencing.
Hi guys, I took some time to digest and reflect. There was a lot of time, because I lost 50+ shows this year already. That's not only a lot of money not earned but first and foremost it's us not being "part of the society" anymore. At least it feels that way. Ok, I exaggerated a bit but I feel less being part of the society. As a musician or artist in general you struggle
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I was in the middle of enjoying a radio&tv acoustic promo tour with the young and talented Ben Dolic who is this year's Eurovision Song Contest Candidate. Many shows ahead. Then suddenly everybody got really scared with this corona thing and now most shows are cancelled already. I feel this is a huge impact of fear and I am curious how we will handle this. For now, I'm happy to be able to return to
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2019 started really colourful for me - I had some quiet time in between the years and then jumped right into music: arranging Elifs new live show where I am MD and guitarist and on the other hand playing sessions, finishing productions (Cologne, The Girl and the Ghost, Malia, The KBCS) and mixing them whilst playing a jazz tour with Stephanie Lottermoser. Oh, and Flo Mega is going on tour - we start playing gigs
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The summer ended with a very colourful range of gigs. I enjoyed switching between playing huge crowds of up to 80.000 (yeah, thats five digits...wow!) with Revolverheld where I sat in for Niels and great Jazz Venues like the Atrane Summer Week in Berlin with Stephanie Lottermoser. Then there were Festivals with Yvonne Catterfeld, Flo Mega and Berge. Looking forward to tea and candlelight in this nice sunny autumn right now. The semester also just
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It's good to be back on stage with the fabulous singer, entertainer and funkmaster Flo Mega. Sometimes, life has its own way of telling stories. I got a call to join the recording of his debut EP "pay me right" with the Ruffcats eleven or twelve years ago in the Phlexton Studios in Berlin. I just heard that he was a great singer doing funky stuff - of course, I was in! After the band
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My year 2017 ended with two inspiring sessions: the funk jam initiated by Cosmo Klein and joined by my dear colleagues Alex Grube, Benny Greb and Julius Trautvetter and mixing sessions with the great Swen Meyer for my upcoming album. Yes, you heard right – there is something beautiful and peaceful coming your way. More revelations are about to be heard and seen in the next months. I'm very looking forward to sharing this gem.
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After playing gigs with Elif and Kiddo Kat earlier this year, the request came to play guitar with Yvonne Catterfeld. We had a great tour in march playing shows in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It was a terrific band and crew and I was happy to learn that Yvonne is an amazingly caring and unselfish person looking after everybody and heartily interested in others. Never complaining, never criticizing anything in all the weeks we spent
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My year 2016 ended with juggling a heavy touring and session schedule and the start of my teaching position at the University of Music Münster (electric guitar major and combo). I'm glad to assist a new generation of musicians in mastering their instruments and finding their ways. I took my days off between the years to go to catalunya and work the last bits of my album there. Looking forward to a great new
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A lot of festivals and open air shows this summer - with Michael Patrick Kelly, L'aupaire, Pohlmann, Tokunbo and Kiddo Kat. The highlights were MS Dockville, Palác Akropolis(CZ) and Fusion. The East European leg of the Michael Patrick Kelly tour took us to Warsaw (PL), Krakow(PL) and Prague(CZ) - countries I enjoy staying in! In between, I jumped into various Morgenmagazin TV shows: most bizarre was travelling to Bordeaux to shoot ARD Morgenmagazin there with
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We had a blast shooting the "One Night Song" pilot in an Austrian alpine hut. Daniel Wirtz will be the host of the show meeting a surprise guest. Thanks to Vox and the whole team for a great time. Especially my dear fellow musicians: Jules Kalmbacher (g, md), Tommy Baldu (dr), Hannes Butzer (g, pedal steel) and Martin Meixner (keys). It will be broadcast 31st of May on Vox Germany. This week, we are gonna
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