Thursday 17 April 2008

Andreas Vollenweider

Andreas Vollenweider   
Artist: Andreas Vollenweider

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   



Discography:


The Storyteller   
 The Storyteller

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 18


Vox   
 Vox

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


Magic Harp The Best Of   
 Magic Harp The Best Of

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 1


Collection 2000   
 Collection 2000

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17


Cosmopoly   
 Cosmopoly

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 17


Kryptos   
 Kryptos

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12


Kryptos Une Aventure Symphoniq   
 Kryptos Une Aventure Symphoniq

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


Live CD2   
 Live CD2

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 14


Live CD1   
 Live CD1

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


Live 1982 - 1994   
 Live 1982 - 1994

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 30


Eolian Minstrel   
 Eolian Minstrel

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 13


Book Of Roses   
 Book Of Roses

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 16


Dancing With the Lion   
 Dancing With the Lion

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 11


Down to the Moon   
 Down to the Moon

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 12


White Winds   
 White Winds

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 10


Behind The Gardens   
 Behind The Gardens

   Year: 1984   
Tracks: 9


Caverna Magica (Under The Tree - In The Cave)   
 Caverna Magica (Under The Tree - In The Cave)

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


Caverna Magica   
 Caverna Magica

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 9


Eine Art Suite In XIII Teilen   
 Eine Art Suite In XIII Teilen

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 13


Tales Of Kira Kutan   
 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.