Al Gromer Khan

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Al Gromer Khan (Alois Gromer, born April 8, 1946 in Frauenzell ) is a German sitar player and composer whose music spans the genres of ambient , new age, world music and electronica . He is the author of four novels and for more than 25 years the author of radio documentaries on the mystical aspects of music. He also works as a visual artist. In 2015 he was awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize of the German-Indian Society for his life's work as a musician and performer of the sitar and surbahar of the highest rank, as a composer, writer and visual artist.

Early influences

Gromer was born in the Allgäu. During his boarding school, he founded a skiffle group and became a jazz guitarist . He declined to take up an academic or diplomatic career that his parents had planned for him. He left home to become a jazz musician and beat poet .

At the age of twenty, Gromer moved to London in 1966, where he spent the next six years and took part in a series of creative experiments that would have a lasting impact on him. Prince Tiane na Champassak of Laos introduced him to yoga philosophy and pop star Marc Bolan invited him to the jam sessions that he hosted all night long. He explored psychoacoustic phenomena with director Mike Figgis , and with saxophonist Ronnie Scott , who introduced Al to the jazz greats. Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) gave him a taste for English poetry. At times he attended a London art school. For a while he lived in Tangier, Morocco.

Development as a sitarist

Gromer's encounters in the 1960s deeply shaped his musical taste and style. A concert evening with the great Indian sitar player Ustad Vilayat Khan in Westminster Abbey in 1968 was groundbreaking. Gromer decided to devote his life to studying the sitar. In Vilayat Khan's younger brother Ustad Imrat Khan , who lived in London, he found a top-class teacher. Travel to India and seven years of sitar studies under Imrat Khan followed. In 1975 he finally got access to the Vilayat-Khani-Gharana through the Gandha ceremony with Imrat Khan. He was the first outsider in this particular gharana of Indian string players. After his introduction, Gromer added the nickname Khan to his stage name.

In the course of the seventies he took part in a series of protoelectronic music, among others with Popol Vuh and Werner Herzog . Numerous participations followed in projects of contemplative world music for radio, television, film and sound recordings, including with Peter Michael Hamels Hesse Between Music .

Stays in Turkey, Morocco and India, as well as concerts of classical Indian music in India and Europe followed. From 1990 he wrote texts and documentaries on the sublime aspects of universal music traditions for various ARD radio stations. Since 1974 Gromer has released over 50 albums of compositions of contemplative new world music.

writer

In 2006, Gromer Khan's novel The Teacher, His Disciple and the White Mogul was published as an audiobook . In 2007, the novella Jazz Christmas followed as an audio book (2011 in English). In 2009 the novels Jimi of Silence and The White Mogul were published, in 2017 the 4th novel Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies .

Discography

  • ONCE AGAIN THE NIGHT, Rasa Music 2020
  • Guv'nor's Choice THE BEST OF AL GROMER KHAN, Rasa Music 2020
  • SILENCE in a BLUE ROOM, Rasa Music 2019
  • IN HIGH PLACES, 2019 Rasa Music
  • DURGA Avenue, 2018 Rasa Music
  • SKY WORSHIP, 2018 Rasa Music
  • THE GOD PERFUME, 2017 Rasa Music
  • After the Crash, 2017 single, Rasa Music
  • CHAKRA NOIR, 2016 Rasa Music
  • Day of the Beloved, 2016 Rasa Music
  • LALITA-The Eternal Feminine, 2015 Rasa Music
  • Tibet Shakti, 2015 Rasa Music
  • Inner Witness, 2014 Rasa Music
  • FAR GO, 2013 Rasa Music
  • KULA JAZZ 'Tantric Miniatures', 2012 Rasa Music
  • Foret Diplomatique, 2011 Rasa Music
  • Future Song, 2010 Rasa Music, AGK with Thomas Kagermann
  • Sitar Secrets 2009 Rasa Music
  • Lanoiah, 2008 Rasa Music
  • Negus, 2008 RASA Music
  • Indian Music II, 2008 RASA Music, NER 2009
  • Another Kind Of Silence, 2007 RASA Music
  • Radio Yoga 2007 RASA Music
  • Turya 2006 RASA Music
  • The Alchemy of Happiness 2005 RASA Music AGK with Klaus Wiese
  • Chai & Roses 2004 RASA Music Al Gromer Khan
  • Tantra Electronica 2004 New Earth Records with Emin Corrado - Rasa Music
  • Indian Music 2002 RASA Music
  • Future Lounge 2002 Rasa Music
  • Lexus 2001 Intuition Wergo
  • Sufi 2000 New Earth Records - New Age Voice Music Award 2001 - Rasa Music
  • Almond Blossom Day 1999 Rasa Music
  • Kamasutra Experience 1999 New Earth Records - Crossroads Music Awards / Gold Star 2000
  • Tantra Drums 1998 New Earth Records
  • Marco Polo / Tan Dun 1997 SONY / Opera Al Gromer Khan / Soloist
  • Space Hotel 1997 New Earth Records - New Age Voice Music Award 1999 - Rasa Music
  • Black Marble and Sweet Fire 1996 Hearts of Space Records with Kai Taschner
  • Monsoon Point 1995 New Earth Records with Amelia Cuni
  • Konya 1994 Bluestar Music
  • Attar - Music as Perfume 1994 WERGO
  • Beautiful Marva 1993 Aquarius
  • Utopia 1992 Rasa Music
  • The God Perfume II 1992 Rasa Music
  • Tabris 1991 Musicolor / Araba
  • Mahogany Nights 1990 Hearts of Space Records
  • Kama Sutra II 1989 Musicolor / Araba
  • Music from an Eastern Rosegarden 1989 Rasa Music
  • The God Perfume 1987 Rasa Music
  • Chai and Roses 1987 Rasa Music
  • Kama Sutra 1986 Eversongs with Jörg Evers
  • The Neuschwanstein Tapes 1986 Aquamarin with Kai Taschner Rasa Music
  • In High Places 1985 Aquamarin with Klaus Wiese - Rasa Music
  • Hymns of Secret Glory 1984 Aquamarin with Klaus Wiese - Rasa Music
  • Divan I Khas 1984 Isis with Mario Strack
  • Zuban 1981 Major Music / Isis with Mario Strack
  • Uranus Venus 1980 Warner Bros. with Mario Strack, Ute Lenz, Jörg Evers
  • Yoga Popol Vuh 1976 High Tide 1993
  • Between Hesse Between Music 1974 Wergo

Audio books

  • Jazz Christmas, Rasa Music 2007
  • The teacher, his student and the white mogul, Rasa Music 2006
  • The Tiger Report, 1990 Sheema Medien Dietrich Wild / Al Gromer Khan New edition 2004

Books

  • Jimi of Silence, State Publishing House 2009
  • The White Mogul, State Publishing House 2009
  • Jazz Christmas, State Publishing House, 2011 e-book
  • The White Mogul English, Zustand Verlag 2015, ebook, Goodreads ***** Readers' Favorite
  • Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies, State Publishing House 2017
  • Kurt and Bongo and the Hippies, Zustand Verlag 2017, English edition book and e-book

Soundtracks

Collaboration with Popol Vuh

  • The Song of Songs of Solomon 1975
  • Last days, last nights 1976
  • Brothers of Shadow, Sons of Light 1978
  • The night of the soul 1979

Exhibitions

  • Art pavilion Munich 'The Malakosha Ambience' 1993
  • Gasteig Munich 'Peace Process' 2001
  • khan art gallery 'Tantric Miniatures' 2011 Munich
  • khan art ambient 'Tantric Miniatures' 2012 Berlin
  • khan art gallery annual exhibitions since 2012 AGK pictures, sculptures, music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Indo -German Society: Clemens Jurgenmeyer and Al Gromer Kahn receive the Rabindranath Tagore Culture Prize 2015 . Press release 2015
  2. ^ Al Gromer Khan | www.khanart.de | Home. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gromer Khan, Al
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gromer, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sitar player, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenzell