Harald Grosskopf

Biography

Grosskopf occurred in the 1960s, first as a drummer for the band The Beat stuntmen in appearance. End of the 1960s he played with the then-unknown Scorpions. 1971, he moved to Mönchengladbach to the band Wallenstein led by pianist and singer Jürgen Dollase, who is now one of the most famous gourmet critics in Germany. This art-rock band called himself a " Symphonic Rock Orchestra " and excited, including through her ​​by Dieter Dierks produced in quadraphonic album " Stories, Songs & Symphonies" sensation. Wallenstein was from 1972 at Pilz label of Rolf- Ulrich Kaiser under contract.

1972 Kaiser initiated the studio and label project Cosmic Couriers, the next Grosskopf, Dollase and Dierks also Göttsching Manuel and Klaus Schulze belonged. Originally, the project should only import the album " Tarot " by Walter Wegmüller. By the mid- 1970s several LPs emerged from various session recordings under bezeugtem by the musicians themselves excessive LSD influence under the name Cosmic Jokers and Cosmic Couriers.

Grosskopf also worked on productions with other artists who were with Kaiser under contract, as well as guest musicians on some albums by Klaus Schulze. He played for example on the album Body Love percussion in the piece Star Dancer. After his departure from Wallenstein 1975, Manuel Grosskopf Göttsching closed now only called Ashra band. As a trio, with Lutz Ulbrich ( Lüül ) was taken up several albums for the Virgin label.

In the 1980s, was co-founder and drummer of Grosskopf NDW band Lilli Berlin. At this time also he created his first two solo albums on which he put his skills especially on the synthesizer to the test. End of the 1980s Grosskopf was a member of the group Central Europe Performance and turned increasingly in the future sound art projects. He also had a role in the tremendous success of Joachim Witt. He has played with, among other things. the hit of the Golden Rider a with. He accompanied Witt with other musicians such as Helmut Zerlett, Harald Gutowski and Jaki Liebezeit. The mid-1990s he was the initiator of some Techno-/Dance-Projekte, including N- Tribe ( with Steve Baltes ) and The Ambush ( with Oliver Lieb ). He was also a member of the 17 Hippies and the end of the 1990s, co-founder of the band Sunya Beat with Axel Heil Hecker and Steve Baltes. Toured in 1997 and in 2008 ASHRA to Japan, with phonoroid 1997 Germany and 1998 by the United States. In 1998, he was with the 17 Hippies at SXSW festival in Austin / Texas (USA). Together with Marc Ribot and Jakob Ilja (Element Of Crime ) he played and the 17 Hippies a concert, which was published under the title 17 Hippies play Guitar in February 2006 on CD.

In 2009, he met in Berlin the Hollywood director Philippe Mora and produced his documentary German Sons, in the Grosskopf also composed the music. The film tells about the different career of the fathers of the two in the 3rd Reich. Mora's father was a member of the French Resistance, during Grosskopf's father was in the Nazi Party member with the Wehrmacht Poland.

In December 2010, published Harald Grosskopf a solo album titled " Synthesist 2010" on the label MellowJet Records.

, 2011, Grosskopf a solo concert at the " Unsound Festival " in New York. 2013 on the "Ambient Festival " l in Gorlice / Poland and in 2013 he was invited to Brazil to lecture on the " Oscillation Festival " on Krautrock and then to give a concert. On all three festivals he was accompanied by guitarist Axel Heil Hecker as a guest musician.

Overall, Grosskopf contributed to more than 100 albums of other musicians and has self-published to date six solo albums. Grosskopf occasionally works as an actor and performed several times together with Hans -Werner Olm on in the television shows.

Discography

With various groups (excerpt)

  • Wallenstein - Blitzkrieg (recorded 1971, released 1972)
  • Wallenstein - Mother Universe (1972 )
  • Witthüser & West Rupp - Bauer Plath (1972 )
  • Walter Wegmüller - Tarot (1973 )
  • Cosmic Jokers - Cosmic Jokers (1973 )
  • Ash Ra Tempel - Starring Rosi (1973 )
  • Wallenstein - Cosmic Century (1973 )
  • Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Supermarket ( 1974)
  • Cosmic Couriers - Sci Fi Party (1974 )
  • Cosmic Couriers - Planetary Sit -In ( 1974)
  • Wallenstein - Stories, Songs & Symphonies (1975 )
  • Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (1976 )
  • Klaus Schulze - Body Love (1977 )
  • Klaus Schulze - X ( 1978)
  • Ashra - Correlations (1979 )
  • Klaus Schulze - Live ( 1980)
  • Joachim Witt - Silver View ( 1980)
  • Lilli Berlin - Lilli Berlin ( 1981)
  • Lilli Berlin - Sweet and Unforgiven (1982 )
  • Lilli Berlin - Huh huh (1983 )
  • Ashra - Tropical Heat (1991 )
  • Bernd Kistenmacher - Characters (1991 )
  • Mario Schönwälder - Hypnotic Beats (1992 )
  • Bernd Kistenmacher - Parks and Gardens Live (1995 )
  • Steve Baltes - Pictures in Rhythm (1995 )
  • Ashra - @ shra (1998)
  • Ashra - Sauce Hollandaise (1998)
  • N -Tribe - Tower of Power (1998)
  • Sunya Beat - Sunya Beat ( 1998)
  • Steve Baltes - Rhythm of Life (1998)
  • Phonoroid - Not on the map ( 1999)
  • 17 Hippies - Who is that? (1999)
  • Sunya Beat - Delhi Slide ( 1999)
  • Axel Heil Hecker - Fish Moon (2000)
  • Ashra - @ shra Vol.2 (2002)
  • 17 Hippies - 17 Hippies play Guitar (2006)
  • Sunya Beat - Comin 'Soon (2006)
  • Fish Moon - TwoMoon Music ( 2007)

Solo albums

  • Synthesist (1980 )
  • Ocean Heart (1986 )
  • World of Quetzal (1992 )
  • Digital Nomad (2002)
  • Yeti Society ( 2004)
  • Synthesist 2010 (2010)
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