Chris Karrer

Christoph Karrer (born January 20, 1947 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is a founding member of Amon Düül and is known for his collaboration with Embryo and Ernst Fuchs . He plays guitar , oud , violin and saxophone .

Live and act

Karrer began playing the banjo and soprano saxophone when he was twelve . After he had passed his Abitur at the boarding school in Marktoberdorf , he first studied painting at the art college in Munich .

In 1967 he founded the band Amon Düül with Peter Leopold, Dieter Serfas and others . Karrer appeared in the Beat Club in 1970 with his band Amon Düül II . After the Düüls disbanded, he released the solo album Chris Karrer (1980), which did not attract the audience and therefore had no successor for a decade. After having toured together with Embryo in Morocco , he reinvented himself as a Sufism- inspired world musician, and learned to play the short-necked oud. Three albums resulted from it: Dervish Kiss (1994), Sufisticated (1996) and The Mask (1997). His last solo album, Grandezza Mora (1999), on the other hand, was dedicated to another longstanding passion of the musician, namely the timbres of the flamenco guitar.

Discography

• with Amon Düül see Amon Düül
• with embryo see embryo

solo

• Chris Karrer , LP 1980 with Curt Cress a . a.
• Dervish Kiss , CD 1994 with Rabih Abou-Khalil and Şivan Perwer
• Sufisticated , CD 1996
• The Mask , CD 1997 with Mani Neumeier and Christian Burchard
• Grandezza Mora , CD 1999

with others

• Missus Beastly , LP 1969
• Shut up, know I am , LP 1981 with Popol Vuh
• Dunarobba , CD 1990 with Militia and Blaine L. Reininger
• Humunculus 1-4 , CD 1995 with Peter Frohmader
• Space Explosion , CD 1998 with Space Explosion
• Patchwork , with MT Wizard, CD 1999 (Casino Rec.)
• Alawio , CD 2003 with Mikrokosmos
• Fitzcarraldo (Soundtrack), CD 2005 with Popol Vuh
• Temporale , CD 2005 with Alhambra
• Multiphonic Music , CD 2006 with Uli Trepte
• Psy , CD 2008 with Guru Guru
• Portrait , CD 2009 with Uli Trepte

Filmography

• Beat Club (1970) with Amon Düül 2
• Amon Düül plays Phallus Dei (1969), released on DVD in 2005
• The Niklashauser Fart (1970) Film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• San Domingo (1970) Film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg ( German Film Award 1971) for film music
• Krautrock Meeting (2005) Recording of a Rockpalast concert in 2004 with AD2 a. a. 2DVD

literature

• Steve Freeman, Alan Freeman: The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany . Audion, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9529506-0-8 , p. 112.

Web links

• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Grandezza Mora )
• Chris Karrer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Chris Karrer at Discogs (English)