Klaus Wiese

Klaus Wiese ( born January 18, 1942 † January 27, 2009 in Ulm ) was a German ambient artist and sound researcher.

Life

His musical work began meadow in the 1970s, first as a member of the Krautrock group Popol Vuh, for whom he played on two publications tanpura. Already at the beginning of the 1980s but parted ways: Meadow returned to the Krautrock his back and followed instead of the at that time still young movement of the electronic, and ambient music.

Klaus Wiese has released throughout his career more than 50 solo productions, added a number of joint projects with stylistically closely related artists like Gianluigi Gasparetti ( Oöphoi ), Jim Cole and Saam Schlamminger. The album El- Hadra - The Mystik Dance, which he produced together with Mathias Grassow and Ted de Jong, sold worldwide and made him in this genre to a lasting name.

Work

Wiese's approach to ambient music is inspired by the minimalist tradition of composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Philip Glass; the greatest similarities of his room flooded, ethereal, sometimes persisting almost static, as well as genre-typical extended (sometimes over 60 minutes long ) Drone passages exist about artists such as Robert Rich and Steve Roach. Meadow was life self-taught, multi-instrumentalist and selbstgeschulter used on his recordings in addition to the various Persian zither stringed instruments, drums, Tibetan singing bowls, chimes and a number of other instruments.

Klaus Wiese's life's work, however, is difficult to reduce to his music as such, because for him mystical elements have always been integral part of his art, he himself emphasized spiritual, therapeutic and healing motives. Multiple trips to the Orient brought him especially in conjunction with the teachings of the Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan, experience also in his musical expression ( and many of his artwork ) should be reflected. By meadow came a piece of music love the Sufis to Europe, which, though removed from the classical Sufi music, however in common, such as ecstasy ( Wagd ) and ecstasy (hal ) has (see also: Dhikr ).