''Caverna Magica'' is the second studio album by
new-age
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artist
Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in ...
, released in 1982. It is almost entirely instrumental. It was the direct followup to Vollenweider's breakthrough album, ''Behind the Gardens''.
Reception
Track listing
All music by Andreas Vollenweider.
Personnel
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Andreas Vollenweider
Andreas Vollenweider (born 4 October 1953) is a Swiss harpist. He is generally categorised as a new-age musician and uses a modified electroacoustic harp of his own design. He has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Carly Simon, Luciano Pavarotti and in ...
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Vocal
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s,
Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
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Keyboards
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* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
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Guzheng
The zheng () or gu zheng (), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from ''Paulownia'' wood. Other co ...
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Flute
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Erdal Kızılçay
Erdal Kızılçay (born c. 1950) is a multi-instrumentalist musician of Turkish birth. He has worked with, among others, David Bowie. He plays bass guitar, oud, drums, keyboards, trumpet and violin. He lives in Aegerten, Switzerland.
Work with ...
- Keyboards,
Oud
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* String instruments
*Necked bowl lutes
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Walter Keiser -
Drums
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Andi Pupato -
Percussion
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Roger Bonnot- Sound effects
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Corin Curschellas - Voices
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Darryl Pitt - Photography
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David Alan Kogut - Art Direction
References
External links
Official Andreas Vollenweider siteOfficial Walter Keiser siteOfficial Andi Pupato siteOfficial Corin Curschellas siteOfficial Ash Ra Tempel site
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1982 albums
Andreas Vollenweider albums
Space music albums