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RALPH KIEFER SOLO PIANO - performing my compositions, improvisations & standards - a deep & soulful mixture of jazz, funk, blues, afrobeat .................
DAGWAMBADE - hammond organ & drums duo celebrating a hot & spicy rare groove & souljazz session.....................................................
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RHYTHM & VOICE ARKESTRA - duo project with berlin vocalist ANAJ RA based on loops & live jamming with 70s keyboards - always different, soulful & lowdown.....................................................
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RALPH KIEFER 6TET - my originals arranged for 6tet, mixing hard bop, spiritual jazz & some outta space elements on a high energetic level - inspired by charles mingus, horace silver, mahavishnu orchestra, sun ra.....................
RALPH KIEFER SOULJAZZ TRIO - pumpin..souljazz for the dancefloor with some latin flavor in the tradition of ramsey lewis & les mc cann.....................
TRIGGER OSC - ambient jazz grooves featuring laptop, trumpet, wurlitzer piano & double bass........................................................
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my first hit "BLACK FOREST STOMP" i dedicated to the place where i was born in the sunny southwest of germany. i began playing with a 2 manual organ at the age of 8, learning by ear. each christmas the instrument grew a bit larger and i began composing & arranging. at the age of 16 my grandma gave me her old piano. i played blues, soul & acid jazz with local bands until i moved to munich where i studied jazz piano with leonid chizhik.
after some excursions through the jazz scene (HIPNOSIS and others) i came back to my roots of soul & funk, recording & touring with multi-talent MARC FRANK (LES GAMMAS) and vocalist DITA. the album MOKADI "human natures" was celebrated as "best german new-jazz-album in 2004" (WOM-Journal). in 2003 while touring with rare groove legend POETS OF RHYTHM & FELA KUTI..s 80..s drummer JOJO KUO i absorbed some more afro rhythm & -spirit that already had a large influence on my music. LOVE, PEACE AND SUNSHINE TO ALL OF YOU ! ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()
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.......................................CD FREAK OFF “freak off“ 1997
CD VENUS MALONE “eye on the prize†2000
CD/LP HIPNOSIS “jazz†2002
EP HIPNOSIS “black forest stomp†remix 2002
CD “BREAK..N BOSSA†2003
CD “NOVA SOUL 2†2003
CD “BRAZILUTION†2004
CD/LP MOKADI “human natures†2004
EP MOKADI “chica da ici†2004
EP MOKADI feat. DUDLEY PERKINS “human natures†remix 2004
EP PANOPTIKUM “blackland of the nile†2005
CD RALPH KIEFER "solo piano"
2007
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