Arovane

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Arovane is the best-known pseudonym of the Berlin electronica musician Uwe Zahn (* 1965 in Hameln ).

Life

Zahn gained his first experience in the field of music production in the early 1980s by experimenting with microphones, cassette recordings and Casio keyboards. In 1983 he bought his first synthesizer and exchanged his first self-produced tapes with friends. After moving to Hanover, he learned to play the clarinet and became increasingly involved with turntablism . After moving to Munich , he joined the live music group Six And More, which played improvised pieces of music live with electronic devices. In 1991 another move to Berlin followed and the establishment of his first own studio. His first own pieces were more of a breakbeat . After initial work for a Berlin radio station, I made contact in 1997 with the electronica label DIN, founded by Torsten Pröfrock , on which Zahn made his debut as Arovane a year later. After the first three EPs , with which he achieved greater fame in the scene, the album Atol Scrap followed in 2000 , which seamlessly followed the experimental and yet melodic style of the first releases. In 1999, Zahn had recorded the album Tides for the City Center Offices label , which attracted attention with its rather unusual spinet sounds. However, Tides was only available in Germany in the middle of the following year and was reserved for a small group of fans. On this album, Zahn worked again with the musician Christian Kleine , with whom he had previously recorded an EP.

After the success of the albums, publications on Morr Music , Lux Nigra and Toytronic followed . In the meantime, Zahn released two EPs under the alias Nedjev and went on tour as Arovane. He performed at the Pukkelpop Festival , among others .

The title of the last track of his 2004 album Lilies , which was inspired by a trip to Japan , is Good Bye Forever and fueled speculation about whether Zahn will continue to produce music under this pseudonym. After a year without publications, Zahn returned with the track Amine Atol on the sampler Pink Rest At Low Levels .

In 2013, after a nine-year break, a new Arovane album was released with Ve Palor . Arovane then released numerous other albums and EPs.

In addition to his own publications, Arovanes' pieces have often appeared on various electronica samplers. As a remixer , he provided new versions for Bomb the Bass , Lali Puna , Pub, Zorn and No Movement No Sound No Memories.

Discography

Albums

  • 2000: Atol Scrap
  • 2000: Tides
  • 2001: AER (Valid) (split album with phoneme)
  • 2002: Icol Diston (compilation from the tracks from the EPs Arovane , Icol Diston and AMX )
  • 2004: Lilies
  • 2013: Ve Palor
  • 2015: Eleeve
  • 2015: Lyid Skor
  • 2015: Resonance (with Porya Hatami)
  • 2015: In-between (with Hior Chronik)
  • 2016: Kaziwa (with Porya Hatami)
  • 2017: Into My Own (with Hior Chronicle)
  • 2017: Organism (with Porya Hatami)
  • 2018: Organism_evolution (with Porya Hatami)
  • 2019: CHRONOS (with Porya Hatami)
  • 2019: Aeon (Eilean 55) (with Mike Lazarev)
  • 2020: shape

Singles and EPs

  • 1998: OK (12 ")
  • 1998: Icol Diston (12 ")
  • 1999: AMX (12 ", remixes of two pieces by the musician Torsten Pröfrock under the pseudonyms Dynamo and Various Artists )
  • 1999: Occer / Silicad (7 ")
  • 1999: Plnt (12 ")
  • 2000: Arovane & Christian Kleine (7 ", split EP with Christian Kleine )
  • 2000: Heofonrice (12 ", as Nedjev )
  • 2001: Amoe / Cane (12 ", as Nedjev )
  • 2002: Cycliph (12 ")
  • 2003: Minth / Neel (7 ")
  • 2015: Aarlenpeers (10 ")
  • 2016: Module EP (12 ")
  • 2017: Module 2 EP (digital only)
  • 2018: Refractive (Index) (with Synkro; 12 "+ digital)

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personal data
SURNAME Arovane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zahn, Uwe (real name); Nedjev (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electronica musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hameln , Germany