Germany's most famous radioshow for electronic music "Elektro Beats" will present on may 19th some tracks of my actual album "Celestial Movements" plus interview.
As a world-premiere, host "Olaf Zimmermann" will also play the opening track "Ouverture" from my next album "Beyond The Deep". This track was never played before!
So if you don't want to wait until "A Celestial Night" in Bochum and the release of the CD, please don't miss this show, which will be broadcasted on may 19th, 12 o'clock p.m. local time.
More informations about the show broadcasted by "RBB - Radio Eins" can be found "here". For past shows, please check the "interviews" page.
Slowly, the newly renovated "Planetarium in Bochum" awakes to new life. The reopening is imminent. As a first "sign of life", the current program for the coming months can be downloaded "here". Of course with regard to my concert on 12th of June.
yes, the concert in Paris is one week ago. I really don't know why time passes so quickly. No question about, this weekend was absolutely fantastic and unforgetable.
I am not able to describe everything here but I will try to leave some thoughts about the most important moments.
Our little journey began on thursday 22nd of october in Berlin. We didn't want to drive non-stop to Paris. So Bernd Scholl - owner of "MellowJet Records" - and his kind family had invited us and we had the chance to stop our trip in german Eifel near the boarder of Belgium. This first evening was filled with good talks and very good food and drink too. So on friday morning we had enough power again to continue our journey.
...with Bernd Scholl (MellowJet Records)
Another 5 hours on the autoroute and we arrived Paris on friday afternoon. Our hotel was right on the famous quarter of Montmartre vis-a-vis of LaCigalle and La Boule Noire - the club, where I was asked to play. On the roof of our hotel, we had a phantastic view over Paris. Beeing in Paris for the first time of my life was also one of the unforgetable moments.
...view from our hotel to Montmartre
In the evening we met all my friends of "Cosmiccagibi", the french association which asked me to return on stage in november 2008 and which also organized the upcoming concert.
...Cosmiccagibi presenting the concert-poster
After a big "Hello" we had a little sightseeing and went up the Montmartre directly to Sacre Coeur - this big, white church on top of the mountain. You have a fantastic view over Paris from there; also by night. Then we had a nice dinner and good talks again.
Saturday was the day we were waiting for. We met us in front of LaBoule Noire and started with all necessary preparations for the concert. It was great to do this again after such a long time.
...during rehearsal
...Pavle Kovacevic
Also Pavle Kovacevic and Bruno Begani , which played at first on this evening, did their preparations on stage. These nice guys used a lot of fantastic analogue equipment and created a cool sound with their machines.
After all rehearsals Olivier Bégué told the whole staff to leave the club because of a video, which should be filmed by Julien Perrin. He wanted to do a little artist-portait for a video collection called "Single Collection". Main idea was to ask artists for their most beloved song or music, which was initial reason to make music too. In my case it was "Aegian Sea" from greek cult-band "Aphrodite's Child". So I will tell not more but invite you to watch the result of our filming, which is online in the meantime. It is obvious to thank Cosmiccagibi for this great idea and Julien for his kind and professional way to get me in front of a camera. Funny beside all this is, that you can get a short impression of "La Boule Noire" and "Our" stage.
So the concert began at 7 pm with the set of Bruno Begani et Paul Kovacevic. They played approx. 1 hour.
My set began after a short break at 8.30. Olivier made a short introduction then I went on stage and started...
I am very satisfied with the concert. At least I played completely music from my next album "Celestial Movements". All synths worked perfectly and the audience liked the music very much. After 2 hours everything was finished. Just an important note about a fact, which makes me very proud. As you surely know, the concert of Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard at german Loreley was released on DVD ("Rheingold"). It was filmed by James L. Frachon. The same James L. Frachon ("Mygale Films") also filmed my concert with 2 cameras. The result will be published soon. Of course this was again one of the great ideas of my friends of "Cosmiccagbi". Thanks to them and many thanks to James L. Frachon.
After the concert I had some nice talks with fans and some short interviews.
Then we had to leave the club fast and we met us again for a final diner at "Cafe Montmartre".
...relaxing after the show
On sunday we left Paris after a little sightseeing again as well as we had to leave our friends too. We returned to Bernd Scholl's home and stayed there overnight again. Finally we had another nice evening there. We also discussed final works for my CD, which will be released latest in 3 weeks.
Finally I can't say much more but thank you. Thank you to my friends Marie and Olivier Bégué, Michel Le Stum and his nice wife Mané, Christian Piednoir, Dominique "The Driver" Pelletier, Yann, Fred, Fabrice, Olivier Briand and all other guys of Cosmiccagibi I forgot to mention here. I thank Julien Perrin and James L. Frachon for their ideas, support and help. I thank Bernd Scholl and his family for believing in me and my family too for the love they gave and give to me.
So here we are now. We went a way, which was not easy to go. We look to the future and see all this things which are possible now.
Let's do it.
Less than two weeks to go and "Cosmiccagibi" has started its final promotion for the
"Celestial Movements ... Live!" concert in Paris, on 24th of october!.
Thank you Michel for your talent and help.
This short news are very "Rolandesque" indeed but they might be interesting to you:
First, "Roland Germany" (a division of the Roland Group) will support my concert in Paris. So beside other Equipment from Roland, which I use since many years, the "V-Synth GT"and the actual "Juno-Stage" Synthesizers will take part on my "show". Also Roland announces my concert on their german website. Please find more infos under "actual dates".
Second, the german "Synthesizer-Magazin" has just released issue no. 16 with my experience report about the huge "Fantom G8" Workstation, which I have written in may and june this year.
At third, "Planet Origo", the website for latest news from movie- and music-business (specialised on SF- Movies and electronic- and contemporary music) from Estonia, also mentions my concert in Paris. Many thanks to Glenn Folkvord.
Also my friend Christian Piednoir from "Cosmiccagibi" has updated his "blog d'Alpha-Lyra" with some nice pictures and announcements.
And last but not least, if you like to listen to a first little part of my upcomming CD "Celestial Movements", please go to the website of "MellowJet"-Records. A first audiosample is online now.
4 weeks before my concert in Paris I will give you some infos about my setup on stage at "La Boule Noir". A click on the pic allows you a larger view on it. You will find a lot of new synthesizers there as well as some "special" instruments like Memotron or GenoQs Octopus. Also my beloved Minimoog will take part on this show.
Feel free to ask, if you have some questions about this.
You need some more infos?
"Celestial Movements .. live" on october 24th, 2009 in Paris at
La Boule Noir
120 Boulevard Rochechouart
75018 Paris
www.laboule-noire.fr
phonenumber: +33 (0) 1 49 25 81 75
You can also get tickets and further informations from my friends of
after a longer time of preparations for my concert in Paris and the release of "Celestial Movements" I come back to you with some news about promotion-activities from my friends of Cosmiccagibi in France.
As you surely know, Klaus Schulze will perform together with Lisa Gerrard on september 23rd in Paris at "La Cigale". I am sure, that this will be a great and unforgetable event.
This evening will also be a great opportunity for Cosmiccagibi to promote my concert in Paris, which happens exactly 1 month and 1 day later (on october 24th) at "La Boule Noir"; a club which is indeed in the same house as "La Cigale". This happens with the very kind permission of Klaus Schulze himself!
I don't want to say too much at this moment, but Cosmiccagibi worked very hard and they will give you any kind of information about my concert you need. They will also have a big standto promote their own activities.
AND you will also have the unique chance to obtain most of my CDs from my backcatalogue including all single CDs from the "my little universe" box-set. If this CDs are sold out, you will never get them again in this layout.
