Roman Bunka
Roman Bunka ( born December 2, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) is oud player, guitarist, composer and a pioneer of "world music " scene.
In the 1970s he played with embryo, Mal Waldron, Charlie Mariano, Missus Beastly, Aera and Trilok Gurtu. In the 1980s, he founded the band " Your head is a sleeping car," and worked with Mohamed Mounir, Abdu Dagir, dissidents and Fathy Salama. In the 1990s he began to compose film music for directors such as Heiner Stadler, Fritz Baumann or Doris Dorrie. Today he combines this experience to present as " border crossers" new projects and promote the music of dialogue between cultures.
In 2010 he played the song Ich Ich Yasmine (along with Mohamed Mounir ) Good for album journey with the band. He was there on the I I - Tour 2010 and the Federal Vision Song Contest.
Roman Bunka lives in Munich.
Discography (selection)
- Embryo 's Revenge 1971 ( with embryo)
- Wiesbaden - Live 1972 ( embryo)
- We keep on 1973 ( embryo)
- Surfin ' 1975 ( embryo)
- Bad Heads & Bad Cats 1976 ( embryo)
- Life 1977 ( embryo Ch Mariano )
- Apo Calypso 1977 ( embryo Tr. Gurtu )
- Embryo 's Reise 1979/80 (embryo )
- Your head is a sleeping car in 1980
- La Blama Sparozzi 1982 ( embryo)
- Turn Peace 1989 ( embryo)
- From Spain to Spain 1992 ( Vox )
- Malik a Taksim 1992 ( with Abdu Dagir )
- Tunguska Guska 1993 ( with Grace Yoon )
- Color me Cairo 1995 Enja
- Jungle Book 1993 ( with dissidents )
- Earborn 1996 Jaro
- Orientation 2004 Enja ( with Luis Borda and Jost Hecker)
- Abadan in 2010 ( with Hammond Schneider)
- Yasmine 2010 ( with I I )
Film Music
- Heartbeat (Fritz Baumann Werner Penzel )
- Crime scene: Shadow World (1996 )
- Al Oud (Fritz Baumann )
- Am I beautiful? ( Doris Dorrie )
- Paul Bowles - Half Moon ( Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti )