Heiko Schramm

Heiko Schramm ( born June 8, 1971 in Dresden ) is a German musician ( bass guitar, double bass, guitar, vocals) and songwriter.

Musical life

In 1988 the band was formed Friends of the Italian Opera at the singer RJKK Hänsch, the cold front guitarist Jänz Dittschlag, the drummer Tom Gross, trombonist Rainer A. Schmidt and Heiko Schramm on bass. Later members were keyboardist Roger Baptist (aka Rummelsnuff ) and drummer Ralph Qno Kunze. 1989 Wolfgang Engel dedicated friends of the Italian opera for his fist -I & II production at the Dresden State Theatre. 1991 approved the acting director of the State Theatre of Dresden, Dieter Görne to perform the projects FDIO own unique Revue at the State Theatre. Thus, the FDIO were the first rock band in the history of the house. Schramm participated in the albums To Love throne And Noble simplicity and stillness size. He left the band in 1992, but declined in November 2005 with the original cast of 1989-92 and the opera singer René Pape into the studio to record a song for a documentary on ARTE - Pape.

From the short Cooperation ( 1989) with the band Cosmic Comic Connection Cowboys, acted as one of two bass players in Schramm, was a still ongoing creative and cordial relationship with the bassist, producer and studio manager Edgar M. Roethig ( Helicopter Tonstudio Dresden). In 1990 he met the singer and guitarist Jens Berger know and founded with him and drummer Thomas Wolf, the band Need A New Drug. It created the albums Greedy Moon (1990) and Santa Cruz (1992, under the production of Jorge Cousineau ). Working with Berger was formative for his strong as melodic " guitar " bass sound, which resulted from an equal cooperation on the arrangements, as well as by the reduced form of a trio, the more complex compositions bass to the transmitter between the rhythm structure on the one and making melody to the second option on the other side.

1993 Schramm went to Berlin and founded by Stephan Hachtmann and Ulrik Spiess of the Berlin band Stan Red Fox (Lars Rudolph), the trio XID, with the Schramm albums XID (1994) and Stralsund (1995 ) recorded. 1996 she returned to Dresden and another collaboration with Jens Berger under the name of Gaffa. On drums first Gero Dumrath from 1997 with Peter Krutsch, later with Jörg A. Schneider. It created the albums Wilful Things (2000, Edgar M. Roethig production ) and Amusement Park ( 2004). Inspired, the band of bluesmen on Fat Possum Records and eg Bukka White, Skip James, Jesse Fuller - but dominated by the dreariness of their eastern suburbs home. Schramm played until 2004 at Gaffa.

In parallel, began in 1999 working with Rüdiger Pässler, Matthias power and Matthias Petzold 's Thermo King. In 2000, the album Fuego under the production of Jorge Cousineau and Matthias Petzold, and the manager of Edgar M. Roethig arose. After the departure of Pässler and renamed in 2001, Goldoni was the eponymous album under the same production team. In 2000, there was an offer by Paul Simang, the film matrix with a DJ team re-recording and perform live in the Dresden Cultural barn. For this action actually limited to three, four shows Matthias called power, Matthias Petzold, the DJ Studio 17 and Schramm, the band Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc. ( TMABI ) to life. The performances were a success and the band existed far beyond that, by 2009.

2001 Schramm learned the American singer and guitarist Chris Whitley Dobro know. This invited him to take over the U.S. tour for the already recorded album Rocket House on bass. At the recording of Rocket House had, inter alia, with: Stephen Barber, Dave Matthews, Bruce Hornsby and Whitley 's daughter Trixie. To tour cast included, inter alia, Tony Mangurian on drums ( the Rocket House also produced ), the New York DJ Logic and keyboardist Etienne Lytle. Whitley and Schramm took then in 2002 with Matthias power the acoustic album Hotel Vast Horizon on. It was produced by Edgar M. Roethig and Schramm in Dresden, and represents the culmination in Schramm's work as a bassist dar. The song "Breaking Your Fall" from that album won in the spring of 2004, the " Independent Music Award" in the category " Best Folk / Singer- songwriter song. " An extensive U.S. tour took the band in 44 concerts across the United States. Similarly, the album was toured in Belgium and France.

During the recording of the soundtrack of the film Pigs Will Fly ( Director: Eoin Moore, 2003) Schramm worked with Whitley and power under the production of Warner Poland and Kai -Uwe Schmidt carbon. Made in 2004 in the same occupation, the recordings Soft Dangerous Shores in Kingston, New York under the production of Malcolm Burn. 2005 Schramm played as a member of Chris Whitley & The Bastard Club in Catskill, New York Album riders in the under production by Kenny Siegal one. The manager had Richard Holbrook. On this, the last album by Chris Whitley continued to impact with Brian Geltner, Tim Beattie, Kenny Siegal, Sean Balin, Gwen Snyder and Susann citizens.

2008 Schramm and power toured with singer / songwriter Paul Sprawl from Santa Cruz, California through the southern western United States. The result was the album Great American Opera Studio in Sutton sound in Atascadero, California. 2011 Schramm founded the band Blenderman, together with Fran Dittes, guitarist and singer of the rock band The Venus shells. The drummer Matthias power completes the band. The debut album N ° Zero One: Hush Hush! published in March 2013.

Bands

Discography

Friends of Italian Opera

Need a New Drug

X.I.D.

Gaffa

  • 2000 LP / CD Wilful Things ( DOXA Records)

Thermo King

Goldoni

  • 2001 CD Goldoni ( Goo International)

Chris Whitley

  • 2003 CD Pigs Will Fly ( ulfTone Records)
  • 2003 CD Hotel Vast Horizon ( Messenger Records / Fargo Records)
  • 2004 CD Soft Dangerous Shores ( Messenger Records / Fargo Records)
  • 2005 LP / CD Reiter In ( Downtown Records / Red Parlour Records)

Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc.

  • 2001 LP / CD Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc. ( Tijuana Music / Hobby de Luxe)
  • 2003 CD Songs ( Tijuana Music / Hobby de Luxe)
  • 2004 CD Day After, the Day Before ( DOXA Records / Remixes)

Paul Sprawl / Worn Out West

  • 2009 CD Great American Opera

Blenderman

  • 2013 CD N ° Zero One: Hush Hush!

FDIO on TV

  • ARTE: The bass René Pape - My heart is burning, Director: Sibylle Muth
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