Music:
Member Since: 10/10/2006
Band Website: cross-culture-music.de
Band Members: Marc Miethe: didgeridoo
One of the true innovators of contemporary Didgeridoo Style!
The media lauds his extraordinary percussive and powerful style. His experience as a bass-player took influence on his unique artistic dimensions on the tunable trombone Didge. Miethe is always expanding the borders of the Didgeridoo. He has been playing E-Bass since 1986 and came to the Didge in 1992. In 1994 he teams up for the Berlin Didgeridoo trio Circular Breathing and records two CDs with them.
He performs with his main project Didges Brew and as a CD and tour guest with Moroccan Gnawa'n'Clubbeat project Gnawa Impulse. Teaming with flamenco-guitarist and exceptional singer Jan Tomsic, playing "cross-cultural music" with Peshkar, Dieter Irber´s Cosmic Level (Jungle-Jazz), Bauhouse (Live-House), Paradise Productions (Goa-Trance), DJ Medy Soul, theatre, circus and modern dance (Company F6). In 1999 he co-founds Cross Culture Music. The trained body-psycho-therapist is also well known as teacher for Didgeridoo lessons & workshops. "... storm of enthusiasm ... unbelieable variety ..." S. Leonhardt, Bad. Zeitung, Dec. 2002
Armin Metz: electric bass
was born 1974 in Regensburg, Germany. From his early childhood he was attracted by music, listening to 70´s radio program and playing to Funk Soul and Pop on selfmade instruments. After autodidactic experiences he achieved lessons in classical piano from the age of nine. Inspired by electronical/film music he was fascinated with synthesizers in the mid 80´s. Metz picked up the bass with 15, what followed a passion for earthy grooves and unique techniques. His explorations as a bass player and composer led him through the wide field of worldmusic, especially to classical indian music.
Metz moved to Berlin where he studied bass and popular music at the University of Music HfM. He played bass in various worldmusic/pop projects (since 2005 he´s a member of the Talvin Singh Trio) and produced several tracks ranging from D´n´B and electronica (collaborations include Talvin Singh, releases under his pseudonym Gemin) to house and trance (e.g. with Chiva Chandra´s mastermind Daniel Vernunft). Studio projects such as Siggi Stern´s album "Siam Bruder" feature Metz as producer/multi-instrumentalist. Together with german didgeridoo player Marc Miethe he 1997 formed the didge`n`bass-duo Boobinga, in 1999 he co-founded the worldfusion band Ahimsa (India/Germany) which recorded two albums and toured through Europe several times. Sometimes he can be heard performing solo bass concerts.
Metz has worked as a bass player/producer with Talvin Singh, Anandan Sivamani, Louis Banks, Shiva Chandra, Felix Sabal-Lecco, Yogeshwara, Tunji Beier, Tim Deluxe, Hossam Shaker, Anuradha Krishnamurthi, Christina Lux and Sonja Kandels amongst others.
David Kuckhermann: Percussion, Electro-Percussion
He studied world percussion at the Music Academy in Rotterdam and since then is actively involved in different drum cultures (e.g. Latin American, Indian and Middle East percussion). He integrated live looping to his repertoire in 2001 and since then composes for dance performances of the Rotterdam Dance Academy. David is member in Wouter Swets Al Farabi Ensemble and performs as ZwischenRaum with sax player and keyboarder Holger Raddatz. He lives in Berlin since 2003 and he plays ancient music with Ensemble EST on tour. He accompanies Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Cordatum and he works as teacher e.g. at the percussion school "rhythmuswelt" in Münster as well. The electronic Zen Drum provides infinite sound spectrums to him due to his distinctive dexterity.
David's teachers were Ustad Fayaz Khan and Ted de Jong (Indian Tabla), Glen Velez (Frame Drums), Siavach Yazdanifar (Tonbak, Daf), Ramesh Shotham (South Indian Percussion), Nils Fischer (Latinpercussion), Martin Drewer (Brasilian Percussion) and Wouter Swets (Balkan Rhythms).
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None
