Balts Nill

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Balts Nill (* 13. September 1953 as Ueli Balsiger ) is a Swiss multi-instrumentalist and journalist .

Life

Ueli Balsiger took drum lessons from Peter Giger and Pierre Favre and studied German and philosophy.

In the early 1980s, Balts Nill pursued various band projects. He played in the Bernese band Caduta Massi with Jürg Burkhard, Claire Cottier, Martin Diem, David Gattiker, Donat Fisch , Andreas Flückiger , Sandra Goldner, Tini Hägler, Konrad Rohrer, René Schafer and Bernhard Schneider . Among other things, Caduta Massi recorded the song Garbage Lady , written in English by Balts Nill in 1980 , which appeared on the Stiller Has album Landjäger in 1994 . With Marco Maria, he published the music fairy tale Die phantastische Reise by Professor Doktor Carolus Oropax as a duo Hunger & Trunk for radio conveyor band, which was subsequently also released as a music cassette. It's about gray cities and almost forgotten forests, petrified dancers and singing fish. Professor Carolus Oropax pursues a tone that has fled the empire of Kaiser Sound into the chamber of musical anarchy, in which all tones are the same, whether straight or oblique. Andreas Flückiger and Pascal Dussex took part as guests. Andreas Flückiger, Balts Nill and Marco Maria formed the band Andreas Flückiger and the Alpinists with Mich Gerber from 1985 to 1986 , which released an album in 1985.

In 1989, Balts Nill and Endo Anaconda (Andreas Flückiger) founded the Bernese dialect band Stiller Has , where he worked as a percussionist until 2005 .

In addition to various musical and literary projects, Balts Nill continues to work as a journalist. In 2006, Federal President Moritz Leuenberger , who wrote his speeches as Federal Councilor himself, hired him as an assistant during the presidential year.

Since April 2007, Balts Nill occurs with the jazz musician, actor and clown Urs Sibold as a duo beautiful & tön on, and later as a hair dryer & Tones .

Awards

In 1995 Balts Nill was awarded the Salzburger Stier and in 1996 he received the German Cabaret Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jungfrau Zeitung: Stiller Has and "Schtiär" peacefully united. July 22, 2004, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Mirage Plates. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Speeches about Wallisellen NZZ , January 1, 2006
  4. ↑ Urs Sibi Sibold: music. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nill, Balts
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ueli Balsiger (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss multi-instrumentalist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1953