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Stephan Micus
Stephan Micus (; born 19 January 1953) is a German musician and composer, whose musical style is heavily influenced by his study of traditional instruments and musical techniques from Japan, India, South America, and other countries. With the exception of his album ''The Music of Stones'' (1989), he plays all the instruments on his recordings, combining styles from different countries and using the instruments in unprecedented ways in each of his pieces. He often uses layers of a single instrument to create unusual combinations of sounds. He is one of the few ECM Records artists whose records are not produced by Manfred Eicher. He has mixed instruments from around the world, or used whatever was at hand: stones, ordinary flowerpots tuned with water, and his voice—singing improvised syllables over ten years before others made this approach fashionable. Micus has played bagpipes, Japanese bamboo flute, rabab, steel drums, and zither. Discography * 1976 - ''Archaic Concerts'' (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 635,911, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 20 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living; innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities in its Innovation Cities Index; and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status global city in their 2020 survey. Stuttgart was one of the host cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zither
Zithers (; , from the Greek word ''cithara'') are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body. This article describes the latter variety. Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, the term refers to a larger family of similarly shaped instruments that also includes the hammered dulcimer family and piano and a few rare bowed instruments like the bowed psaltery, bowed dulcimer, and streichmelodion. Like an acoustic guitar or lute, a zither's body serves as a resonating chamber (sound box), but, unlike guitars and lutes, a zither lacks a distinctly separate neck assembly. The number of strings varies, from one to more than fifty. In modern common usage the term "zither" refers to three specific instruments: the concert zithe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ECM Records Artists
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German Composers
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Caroline Records Artists
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomad Songs
''Nomad Songs'' is the twenty-third studio album by Germany, German world musician Stephan Micus, recorded over three years and released on ECM Records, ECM in June 2015. Always seeking new traditional instruments, ''Nomad Songs'' sees the addition of two new instruments to Micus's repertoire: the ''genbri'' (a Moroccan lute) and the ''ndingo'' (a Botswanan lamellophone). Reception In a four-and-a-half star review for ''All About Jazz,'' John Kelman said "Nomad Songs is, despite the perennially pensive and reflective nature of his entire body of work, a shift from the more conceptually focused Panagia, which was based around prayers to the Virgin Mary." Track listing Personnel *Stephan Micus – ndingo, genbri, guitar, steel-string guitar, suling, voice, ney, rawap, rebab, guitar, twelve-string guitar, guitar, fourteen-string guitar, tin whistle, shakuhachi References {{Authority control Stephan Micus albums ECM Records albums 2015 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garden Of Mirrors
''The Garden of Mirrors'' is an album by Stephan Micus recorded between 1995–1996 and released on ECM (record label), ECM the following year. Background Like his previous efforts, Micus plays every instrument via overdubbing: he also provides all of the voices for the 20-man chorus in three of the tracks. Micus's inspiration for this album was two traditional low-range West African harps that he studied in Gambia: the ''bolombatto'' and the ''sinding''. When playing these two instruments, Micus claims to have identified with early African American music, which they influenced, claiming that the bassline in jazz was influenced by these harps. Other instruments used by Micus include steel drums and four different flutes: the Japanese music, Japanese ''shakuhachi'', the Balinese music, Balinese ''suling'', the Irish music, Irish tin whistle, and the Egyptian music, Egyptian ''ney''. Track listing #"Earth" #"Passing Cloud" #"Violeta" #"Flowers in Chaos" #"In the High Valleys" #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athos (album)
''Athos'' is a 1994 album by Stephan Micus that was released on ECM. Based on a three-day visit to Mount Athos, Micus tries to capture his experiences with the Greek Orthodox liturgy he experienced in the monasteries there, framing it with pieces that evoke his emotions at going to and leaving the isolated peninsula. Between them he recreates the liturgical experience of the services during his stay, in six alternating pieces of night and day. As in his other works, Micus uses a combination of traditional instruments from various cultures to capture the feel of the monastery. These include: the '' sattar'' (a bowed 10-string instrument used by the Uyghur), the '' shakuhachi'' (a Japanese bamboo flute), the ''suling'' (a reed flute from Bali), the '' ney'' (a Middle Eastern flute), and 22 flowerpots, filled with water, which he plays with his hands and with mallets. These instruments are only used in the pieces representing the days on Mount Athos. To emulate the Greek Ort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twilight Fields
''Twilight Fields'' is an album by German multi-instrumentalist and composer Stephan Micus recorded in November 1987 and released on ECM Records, ECM the following year.ECM discography accessed May 22, 2014 Reception The AllMusic review by Jim Brenholts awarded the album 3 stars stating "''Twilight Fields'' is a set of smooth, acoustic ambience from Stephan Micus, a master of the craft. He uses flutes, marimbas, xylophones, and ethnic percussion to generate this atmospheric experience."Brenholts, J.Allmusic Review accessed May 22, 2014 Track listing ''All compositions by Stephan Micus'' # "Part I" ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean (Stephan Micus Album)
''Ocean'' is a solo album by German composer and multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus recorded in 1986 and released on the ECM Records, ECM label.ECM discography accessed September 26, 2011 Reception The Allmusic review by Jim Brenholts awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Ocean'' is a set of acoustic ambient performances from Stephan Micus. He uses exotic instruments and techniques that give this disc electronic timbre... The natural sonorities of these devices create vast atmospheres with organic timbres. The soundscapes penetrate and enhance brainwave activity. This great CD will appeal to fans of Robert Rich (musician), Robert Rich, Klaus Wiese, and Riley Lee".Brenholts, J[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
