Für das Debüt-Album des jungen Rock-Trios Emma 6 hab ich die Synthies eingespielt. Produziert wird das Album im Maarwegstudio 2 von Wolfgang Stach.

Am 19. & 20. Juni 2010 präsentierte das 14-köpfige F-Orkestra aus Freiburg das Konzertprogramm "Mahler plays the Fork – The F-Orkestra plays Mahler".
Zum 150. Geburtstag Gustav Mahlers wurden von Harald Kimmig, Jan F. Kurth, Klaus Wallmeier und Thomas Schoch Stücke arrangiert und komponiert. Das Freiburger F-Orkestra bearbeitet seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten das Feld frei improvisierter Musik zwischen Jazz und Klassik, Rock und Populärem.
Ich habe einen Live-Mitschnitt der beiden Konzerte durchgeführt und sitze im Moment an der Mischung der Titel.

Der Gitarrist Gábor Gadó gilt als eine der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der Improvisierten Musik und des Jazz in Ungarn und Europa.
Die Besetzung des Konzerts vom 15. Mai 2010 im Loft: Gábor Gadó (Gitarre), Jósef Horváth (Kontrabass), Joe Quitzke (Schlagzeug) sowie die Kölner MusikerInnen Christina Fuchs (Saxofon) und Matthias Muche (Posaune).
Den Mitschnitt habe ich Tonstudio des Kölner Loft durchgeführt, das an den Konzertsaal angebunden ist.

Am 26. März 2010 erschien die Single It No Pretty des deutschen Reggaekünstlers Gentleman als musikalischer Vorbote des kommenden Albums Diversity.
Den Refrain-Chor dieses Titels habe ich in Zusammenarbeit mit Gentleman und dem Produzenten Ben Bazzazian (alias Benny Blanco) im Maarwegstudio 2 aufgenommen.

Young Avantgarde Jazz quartet Lautstark!4 joined forces with the extraordinary percussionist Ramesh Shotham to form the cross-generation project Mahaphon Clang.
The recordings of their great concert at Cologne Loft on March, 3rd 2010 were mixed and mastered by me. The titles named Clang I - VII can be listened to online.

Freitag, der 13. November: Das Unglück geschah morgens um 08:30 auf der Anreise zum NDR Studio in Hamburg. "Personenschaden", 4 Stunden Stopp in Twistringen (zwischen Osnabrück und Bremen), Polizei, Leichenwagen und Wechsel des Zugführers.
Dafür ging dann abends beim Fernsehauftritt mit Gunter alles gut. Als Vertretung für Xaver Fischer hab ich die röchelnde Orgel und den lächelnden Synthie beigesteuert zu Gunters viel diskutiertem Radiohead-Cover "Ich bin ein Nichts".

Am 23. Oktober ist Gunter Gabriels neues Album Sohn aus dem Volk erschienen. Als Assistent des Produzenten Wolfgang Stach war ich nicht nur an den Aufnahmen beteiligt, sondern entwickelte auch die ein oder andere Keyboard- und Streicherlinie.

On the upcoming album of Patrice I accounted for the drum edits. Drums played by Josh McKenzie, engineered by Russ Elevado (who recorded and mixed D'Angelo's legendary Voodoo album).
The album production takes place at Supow Studio, Patrice's impressive yet cosy recording studio in Cologne. All signals are tracked to analogue tape.

Update: In the meantime I also recorded vocals and percussion. The album is going to be great!

As a sound technician on the OB Van of the WDR (German Radio) I was involved in recording the concert "WDR Rocknacht" on Oktober, 11th 2009 at the Cologne E-Werk featuring Skunk Anansie, Chairlift, The Rakes and Eternal Tango. On 26th of October 2009 this concert of 90ies crossover band Skunk Anansie will be broadcasted on WDR Fernsehen (German television channel).
I was personally thrilled by the sound of Chairlift that beamed me right back to the 80ies!

On July 25th, 2009 the Open Source Festival took place in Duesseldorf/Germany with headliners Tocotronic and The Streets. Lorenz Rhode together with Fabian Schulz an me on keyboards rocked the Young Talents stage at 9.15 p.m. The bunch.tv team filmed the show and published the clip here including an interview with Lorenz.

Our electro funk trio with analogue synthesizers & drum machines and without laptop will be playing on the Electronic Night at zakk/Duesseldorf on 26th of September 2009.

On May 22nd, 2009 the third album entitled Holiday in Catatonia by German punk rock band Jupiter Jones will be released. This record was recorded in the Maarwegstudio 2 and produced by Wolfgang Stach. On some songs I assisted, including me playing keyboards or accounting for some drum programmings. In the meantime, the album has entered the German album charts on # 97 – even though the band clearly has a complete DIY background. Consequently, the album will be released on the label Mathildas und Titus Tonträger, which guitarist Sascha Eigner is running himself.

On the occasion of their tour with Mr. Knyphausen, Lichter (indie pop) interpret the piece Spieglein, Spieglein by their fellow tour colleague and „shape it in a style bearing connotations to a western movie’s score music. They play a limping rhythm, add banjos, horns, sounds similar to a musical saw and lots of rumbling“ (Kevin Hamann). Recorded by Jakob Storm and me, mixed by Christoph Schneider. The result can be downloaded here for free.

The band Sindikaat appears on the new album by Mellow Mark & Pyro Merz. The track Kommt Zusammen was produced by Felix Noelken and mixed by myself. The album Ratz Fatz Peng will be released on April 2nd, 2009 on Pyromusic.

On February 20th, 2009 Lorenz Rhode will be performing a live show at the Berlin Battery Party at Scala Club in Berlin along with his fellow musicians Fabian Schulz and me. The British band Metronomy will be headlining this evening.

On November 21st, 2009 the new edition of the platinum selling album Plan A! by Thomas Godoj – winner of 2008’s Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German “Pop Idol” – will be released in a double CD version. Included is a bonus CD containing six unplugged recordings which Thomas Godoj recorded along with his band in the Maarwegstudio 2 in Cologne. Working for Tinseltown Music, I was the responsible sound engineer recording the band during those sessions and mixing the acoustic EP – always accompanied by and working together with producer Kiko Masbaum. Including the video single Autopilot (unplugged) in an unplugged version from these recording sessions, the platinum version of the Album Plan A! re-entered the German album charts on # 51.

On November 14th, 2008 the new album by Tom Gaebel entitled Don't Wanna Dance will be released. The musical range extends from big band swing to motown soul music. During the recording sessions in the Maarwegstudio 2 in Cologne, I accounted for the major part of all overdub recordings and edits. Working together with Tom and producer/keyboarder Lillo Scrimali (Die Fantastischen Vier, Joy Denalane), I recorded vocals, keyboards, and strings over several weeks. I also created sub-mixes of horn and string parts for mixing engineer Tom Krüger.

Within the first week after being released on May 16 th, 2008, the new album Radio Pandora by the legendary Cologne band BAP reaches # 1 of the German album charts. Being the assistant of producer Wolfgang Stach and mixing engineer Dan Stone, I participated in the production work of this album. I also took part in terms of creative output by accounting for drum loops and string arrangements of the song Noh Gulu (plugged).

The 6-minute filmlet FamilienSimulator of Dortmund-based director and author Maksym Kashevarov will be presented at this year’s filmlet festival “KurzFilmFestival” of Stuttgart Media University on December 14th, 2007 at 6.00 p.m. I account for the score and sound design of this filmlet.