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First Album : "Fishmoon - Music By Axel Manrico Heilhecker"
Produced
by Axel Manrico Heilhecker - Fishmoon
1994
,the idea came up, to record a instrumental album, which should be
routed more to atmospheres, than to structural aspects in music.To
accomplish this Heilhecker collected relics of his guitar-laboratories
during his work as producer for Phonoroid,
Sunya Beat,
Thomas
Kagermann, Samson
Gassama,or Andreas Ludwig.
This was done between 1995 and
1998. As a result this album established a visual sound, mainly leaded
by Heilhecker's guitar, but far away from common string-acrobatics.
Most different musical styles and guitar-specific playing-technics had
been dismantled and brought together in new aspects. All
instruments were played mainly by himself this time.
"Listening to my
album today, i find all influences of my collaboratories in
the
90's very clearly comin' upfront.
For example my work with the,
meanwhile late, indian sitarplayer and music prof. from Benares T.N.
Nagar .
Same as Ravi Shankar,a
student of Villayat
Khan,
he was a
great architekt and storyteller on his instrument.
No picture - no sound ,this formula always has been
putting a spell on me.
Steve Baltes
and Harald
Grosskopf , my longtime fellows since those days
,represent the
musical caesura of the late 90's, the moveover from
linear recording to virtual tracking.
Fishmoon ,moon in
pisces
,is analog to a situation of sensitive processes and expressions,
or a time
, when one is not able to lock up from in- and external sensations - a
state of unlimitation.
What started as a collection will
be continued as a conceptional edition and released Nov - 06
titled "Two
Moon Music".
Axel's music is very visual, no wonder that he just won the
IIFF AWARD
for the
best US-Documentary with "CINDERELLAS
OF SANTA FE", directed by VANESSA
VASSAR (Axel's partner in PHONOROID, which
he musically supported and
co-produced,too.
check out http:://www.axelheilhecker.com for further information.
The
passionate guitarplayer started up in Cologne, had his first
recording contract in England end 70's
and played since the
80's for
major audiences.
Numerous wellknown German-Rock recordings
as well as
touring builded a
platform for him as one of best known players of Germany and a composer
.
As a teenager he had lessons from DON CHERRY,
the legendary Jazz and
Ethno musician, trumpet player, and father of EAGLE EYE and NENEH
CHERRY, which inspired him since then, and gave him a
universal
understanding of music.
Workin' with german musicians like WOLF MAAHN,
KLAUS LAGE or
HERBERT GRÖNEMEYER ,
and as well the later
connection to the TV
showband of HARALD
SCHMIDT,
where he met KING CRIMSON
saxplayer MEL
COLLINS and again long time fellow ROSKO GEE,
member
of CAN
and
TRAFFIC,
and backed up numerous artists like BRIAN FERRY,
ERIC BURDON,
OLETA
ADAMS or GRACE
JONES, made him noticable for the major german
public.
But his personal roots came strong in his projects and album
releases
within' a high output since the 90's,
featuring both, his
music as well
as his facilities as a producer.
Besides productions of african and indian music, he produced
some
Experimental-Rock albums
and
released a couple of albums and soudtracks with his
Avantgarde-Folk
band "PHONOROID",based
in the USA.
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