Thursday, 17 April 2008
Andreas Vollenweider
Artist: Andreas Vollenweider
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Storyteller
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
Vox
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Magic Harp The Best Of
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Collection 2000
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Cosmopoly
Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
Kryptos
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Kryptos Une Aventure Symphoniq
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Live CD2
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Live CD1
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Live 1982 - 1994
Year: 1994
Tracks: 30
Eolian Minstrel
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Book Of Roses
Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
Dancing With the Lion
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Down to the Moon
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
White Winds
Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
Behind The Gardens
Year: 1984
Tracks: 9
Caverna Magica (Under The Tree - In The Cave)
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Caverna Magica
Year: 1983
Tracks: 9
Eine Art Suite In XIII Teilen
Year: 1979
Tracks: 13
Tales Of Kira Kutan
Year:
Tracks: 4
Andreas Vollenweider was one of the few musicians to make superstar status as a "fresh historic period creative person" back up when the term was first used as a selling category in the mid-'80s. The Swiss people harper, still, speedily transcended the pauperism for alternative criminal record sales when his albums at the lapp time broached Billboard's pop, jazz, and serious music charts in 1986. Born in Zurich in 1953, Vollenweider was ensconced in the city's delicately fine art conniption, courtesy of his forefather, ace of Europe's leadership organists. After in good order skillful on guitar, transverse flute, and other instruments, the offspring Vollenweider highly-developed a passion for the harmonica, which he modified to suit of clothes his of necessity. Non only did he construct a damper to expedite more rhythmic playacting, he broadened the harp's tonal reach by electrifying it. His floaty blue funk beatniks, exotic pan-cultural influences, and coloured harp improvisations began to tangle Europe in the early '80s as Vollenweider signed with CBS Records to dismission Behind the Gardens...Behind the Wall. Three albums later, he south Korean north Korean won his number i Grammy for 1987's Consume to the Moon. Over the long fourth dimension, Vollenweider has managed to exert his aesthetic integrity and visual sense modality contempt increasing commercial message achiever. The harpist's 1991 criminal record album Christian Christian Bible of Roses is a testament to his ability to thrive his oscilloscope as a composer piece belongings his trademark sound intact; subsequently a lenghty hiatus, he issued Kryptos in 1998, followed two eld later by Cosmopoly. Numerous reissues and assemblage followed, including a modern lay out of holiday real called Midnight Clear in 2006.