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christian eckert

About Me

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Studies in NL Hilversum & Zwolle Conservatory, USA New York New School and CA Banff Center for the fine arts. Lessons by Jim Hall, Wim Overgauw, Frank Sikora, John Abercrombie and Hans Voogt. Studies completed in 1995 with a master degree. Performances with Sam Yahel, Ray Bryant, Gary Versace , Matt Jorgensen among others.
CD-productions under my name:
-Musing C. Eckert git, A. Helfrich p&org, J. Schaedlich b & D. Schilgen dr
-Up! C. Eckert git, A. Helfrich p&org, J. Schaedlich b & D. Schilgen dr
-Double You C. Eckert git, Jo Bartmes p&org, J. Schaedlich b & D. Schilgen dr
-NY3 C. Eckert git, M. Jorgensen dr & G. Versace org -Sapporo Sound Motel C. Eckert git&electr., Eva Mayerhofer voc, U. Jünemann sax&eff & J. Loh b&eff
-NEW RELEASE "Sapporo meets Janosch" out now!!!
The Jazz musician Christian Eckert and his „’68 childhood“.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 22/09/2006
Band Website: www.christianeckert.com " www.christianeckert.com
Band Members:
Influences: Right now I..m listening to:
-Kurt Rosenwinkel "Remedy"
-Lage Lund "Standards"
-Rosa Passos "Rosa"
-Kalle Kalima "Chasing Yellow"
-Eivind Aarset "Connected"
-Bugge Wesselthoft "Im"
-Gilad Hekselman "Split Life"

My alltime favorites:
-Miles Davis "My Funny Valentine"
-Chet Baker "Sings"
-Wes Montgomery Trio
-Basie &; Sinatra
-Jim Hall "These Rooms"
Sounds Like: Sapporo
The Jazz musician Christian Eckert and his „’68 childhood“.
Jazz guitar und sound artificer Christian Eckert, being grown-up in direct contakt within the APO (the extra-parliamentary opposition political movement) in Frankfurt/Germany (e.g. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Joschka Fischer), reflects this childhood with fragmentary sound documents (Rudi Dutschke and others)...
Though he does not remain indulging in reminisce, but keeps looping and razing current political incidents, scientific theories as well as russian fairy tales through his (digital) machines.
The combination of the two of them might be slightly irritating at first sight. Fairy tales are being told in different languages; children from Baslan are being recorded at their first day at school; the origin of black holes is being reflected on and Bagdad is being bombed while Bush is talking about the retrieval of universal peace. Kids as well as grown-ups will take a fancy to it!
The freedom of Jazz meets the free flowing fancyful world of children. Wandering between yesterday and today, grave and bright, fine and rough elements, real instrumnets and voices and computer generated sounds, creating a musical sound collage with almost vividly structures... The album is complemented by an exceptional artwork by the famous Janosch in the form of a book him from 1971 included as digibook (this book being out of stock for more than 30 years till now...), which supports the psychedelic Jazz/Polit/Dada-Music-Collage inbetween drifting dreans and scraping alertness...
Record Label: phazzadelic
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

follow the production of the new sapporo sound motel cd

here you can follow the progress of the new sapporo sound motel cd. besides two tunes of the last one "musique noir" you can listen to two tracks i´m working on. i´ll update them as soon as something ...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:20:00 GMT