Artist: Gunter Schickert
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Somnambul
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Uberfallig
Year:
Tracks: 3
Samtvogel
Year:
Tracks: 3
Though his name barely registers among most of the Krautrock intelligentsia, Schickert was both prolific in the back scenes as well as organism an important creative person. Along with the better-known Achim Reichel, Schickert pioneered the echo guitar, where the repeated guitar tones create unequalled multi-layered textures that take the musical instrument quite beyond the ordinary.
Schickert was combat-ready through much of the sixties in the Berlin free-jazz picture, though it wasn't until 1974 that his first base album, Samtvogel came tabu, self-released by Schickert in a low clutch. The album was alone enough that it was quickly snatched up by the fabled Brain label, and they reissued the record the following twelvemonth. Samtvogel is quite similar to Manuel Gottsching's like solo-guitar album Inventions for Electric Guitar, where guitar sounds ar layered and superimposed on round top of each other to create new hypnotic textures.
In 1973 Schickert founded the trio GAM, with guitar player Axel Struck and percussionist Michael Aleska, and with Schickert on guitar, vocals and trumpet this group created a unequaled sort of freaked-out blank rock. GAM recorded some cram roger Huntington Sessions in 1976, which were in the end released on cassette in 1986 coroneted Gam 1976, and an unreleased album called Eiszeit in 1978.
At this time Schickert was besides creating music for a theatre company, and even performing live on stage in some of the productions. He besides served as a roadie for electronic music pioneer Klaus Schulze, and sometimes played live with Schulze as well. Schickert's moment solo album, Uberfallig, came out in 1979 on Sky Records, this time with Charles Heuer on drums to augment Schickert's echo guitar textures.
In the eighties Schickert's work in theater production continued, and he also took part in a duet of bands, No Zen Orchestra and Ziguri Ego Zoo. A third album under his possess name, this one a completely solo feat with him on guitar, tapes, vocals, percussion, and trumpet, Kinder der Wildnes, from 1983 only came out on cassette, though it showed that Schickert was expanding into a wider stove of musical styles. Another compendium, Somnabal, was released in 1995 on CD with euphony from throughout the decennary and a half in front that. Though his recordings ar few and hard to rail down, specially the debut Samtvogel, Schickert is an groundbreaking music divine wHO deserves more notice.
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