Meanwhile I started intensively listening to heavy metal (but was always also interested in other music genres). I was deeply impressed by the brutal power of distorted guitars, the speed and just by the reinvention of the tritone (diminished 5th or augmented 4th however you like it, in most of European classical music, it has been considered as a "devilish" interval).
I wanted to learn how to play heavy metal guitar no matter what. I started taking lessons and first band projects were coming and going.
In order to improve my theoretical as well as practical music skills I began to study music at jazz school Lucerne for two years (basic studies in playing, singing, listening & analyzing and writing). The band where I played the lead guitars for more than 7 years and the activity as a private guitar teacher provided good opportunities to put the learned into practice. Gigs were played and a few CDs produced. One of our tracks called ‘wings’ (a ballad of course ;-) made it on the play list of a local radio station.
In the mid of the 90ies when entire Europe was infected with the Eurodance wave I started also more and more listening to trance, hard trance and techno, without neglecting my roots. Fascinated by propulsive basses, superimposing pad sounds as well as breathtaking harmonies I decided to start creating and producing my own sound from scratch. Several attempts were done until the C.M.P. cyber mentality project rose from the ashes.
Genre overlapping sounds, no ready-made or prefabricated sequencer loops, no inmixing of already existing vinyl or cd tracks (except voice samples) and self played guitars are the characteristic symptoms of my music that is hard to classify…
Did I provoke your curiosity? So have a listen and leave a comment. If you listen carefully you will even find a few tritones (keep them if you like ;-)
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