Uli Trepte

Uli Trepte ( born September 27 1941 in Konstanz, † 21 May 2009 ) was a German bass player, singer, composer and lyricist.

Life

He was a founding member of the free-jazz trio playing Irène Schweizer (1966-1967) and the pioneering Krautrock group Guru Guru ( 1968-1972 ). Trepte played with the progressive bands New!, Fist and Kickbit information as well as musicians like Yusef Lateef, Gato Barbieri, Barney Wilen, John McLaughlin, Mal Waldron, Edgar Hofmann and Hans Hartmann.

He led his own groups " Spacebox " (1975-1984) and "Move Groove" (1996-2001) and made recordings under his own name, with which he consistently his concept of a European polyphonic collectively improvised, minor - dominated modalharmonischen, cyclically structured organic- electric, groovy live music realized. He also worked with Aja Waalwijk, Amsterdam together on unusual song project takes on Words.

Trepte lived in London, Tokyo, New York; Since 1985, he lived as a multimedia artist based in Berlin, where he developed a special type of text performance.

Uli Trepte died on May 21, 2009 from cancer.

Discography

Irène Schweizer Trio:

Guru Guru:

  • Back in 1971
  • Kaen -guru, 1972
  • Spaceship ( Best of Guru Guru ), 1996
  • Very Best of Guru Guru, 1999
  • Food in 1970, 2003

Kickbit Information:

  • Bitkicks, 1975

Spacebox:

  • ( First ), 1979
  • Kick it Up, 1984

Move Groove:

  • Groove Along With Dong, 1998 Arjopa
  • Staticsphere, 2000

Takes On Words:

  • Yestermorrow Songs, 2000
  • Incredible World, 2007

Solo:

  • Guru Guru / Uli Trepte (Split -Release), 1972/74
  • Phenotype, 1985
  • Jazz Modalities, 1990
  • Real Time Music, 1991
  • Rollomat, 2004
  • Multiphonic Music, 2006 Chris Karrer and Geoff Leigh
  • Portrait, 2009 (Compilation )

Other:

  • Sing Joy the Day, Trepte / Filsell / Ely, 1995
  • Best of Ax Genrich, 1997
  • Axymoron (Compilation of Ax Genrich ) 2009 ( Sireena Rec )
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