Dieter Gasde
Dieter Gasde (* 1952 ) is a German blues musician who lives in Eisenach .
life and work
Traveling blues
Gasde is the founder of the blues band Traveling Blues , which he led for over twenty years. When Traveling Blues was founded in Eisenach at the beginning of 1974, the cast included the musicians Christoph Martin Neumann, Mike Ullrich, Hans Peter Beck and Rudolf Schmidt in addition to Gasde. 1975 played Traveling Blues at the 1st Thuringian Blues Festival in front of 3,000 spectators. From 1980, Rudolf Schmidt, Thomas Kögel, Erich Fenske and Karl Aschenbach were part of the cast alongside Gasde. Even Alexander Blume was one of the band for a time as a pianist. Traveling Blues toured the GDR for 25 years and, after the fall of the Wall, also through the Federal Republic of Germany . Abroad there were performances in Cracow and Slaný . With the death of the pianist and singer Erich Fenske in 1999 Traveling Blues dissolved. Since 2010 Traveling Blues has been touring Germany again with Dieter Gasde, with singer Kate Daniels as a guest cast. The current line-up includes Christoph Gottwald, Frank Müller, Boris Tautorat and Andreas Geyer (from Pro Art ).
More bands
During his Traveling Blues membership since the 1980s, Gasde was and is also active in various other bands. He performed with Christoph Martin Nemann as a duo bluesong , was a member of Stephan Diestelmann's folk blues band, the jazz and funk band Prima Klima and the Alexander Blume quartet . Gasde has been to concerts in the People's Republic of Poland and the ČSSR . From 1998 to 2002 Gasde was a guest soloist with the Thomas Stelzer Trio and the Dresden band Bloody Rhythm Fingers . Gasde is the founder of the band Gumbolaya . It focuses on New Orleans funk, blues and soul and, in addition to Gasde, consists of Wolfgang Leyk, Christoph Gottwald, Andi Geyer and Frank Müller. Together with Hendrik Kleditz, Gasde founded the Duo Good News in 1989 , in which he sings and plays the harmonica, saxophone, flute and other instruments. Good News also appeared in Switzerland, Hungary and Croatia. The singer and guitarist Alex Leonard Exson has been a guest soloist for Good News since 2003 . Gasde and Exson also perform in pairs. Together with Marco Böttger and Christoph Gottwald, Gasde also forms the String Blow Trio . In 2008 Gasde took part in a revival of Circus Lila with the program The Long Purple Lulatsch at the Eisenacher Sängerkriegs-Festival in the Annenkirche.
Others
In addition to his work as a musician, Gasde manages the bands in which he participates through his music office in Eisenach. He is also a consultant in the department for creative proclamation / youth and popular music of the children's and youth pastor's office of the Protestant Church in Central Germany. In this role, Gasde also oversees a recording studio of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Musik (AGM) in Eisenach. In December 2008 it received support of 4,700 euros from Lotto Toto. Since January 2010 the Eisenach parish has been the new owner of the recording studio Wartburg Records , which is also located in Eisenach and is also looked after by Gasde.
Gasde lives in Eisenach.
Press review
Commentary on Gasde's importance for the blues in Thuringia
“The seventies brought another reforestation of the bluesy undergrowth. The seedlings were called Knuff, Ergo, Frachthof, Pro Art and Traveling Blues, their keepers were Meinhardt Prkno, Jürgen Postel, Waldemar "Waldi" Weiz, Walter and Andreas Geyer, Christoph Martin Neumann, Mike Ulrich and Dieter Gasde. "
CD review for Good News and Friends
“The blues definitely comes from Thuringia. Anyone who has been skeptical of this truth up to now has the opportunity to check their opinion with this CD. Admittedly, the compositions all bear foreign names from a copyright point of view, but only the Thuringian interpretation gives them true greatness. There are experts at work who only ignoramuses can blame for replaying. You already notice after the first notes that the blues has to come from the core of the musician in order to achieve such convincing quality. On the blues authenticity scale, which is irritatingly measured not in shades of blue but in degrees of blackness, both Good News , consisting of Dieter Gasde and Hendrik Kleditz, as well as and Friends , that is Wolfgang Leyk, Christoph Gottwald, Frank Müller and Rudolf Schmidt, achieve considerable darkness . This becomes clear, among other things, in the looseness and enthusiasm with which the participants act. And how better to document such ease than in the present version. You can't hear a clean, high-gloss studio production, rather the takes were recorded in several studio sessions in the solid-analog AGM studio in Eisenach. The result is convincing: the blues definitely comes from Thuringia ... "
Concert with Good News in Eschwege on October 21, 2011
“And then there was Dieter Gasde: the soul of the group, so to speak. Because not only with his amazing multi-instrumental skills - with blues harp, saxophone, flute and drums - he created the best atmosphere in the audience: He was also in the best musical mood with his humorous comments and his singing "
Concert in Eisenach on December 31, 2011
"Unlike in the previous year, it was not the pianist that was in the foreground, but Dieter Gasde in particular knew how to set accents again and again with his distinctive voice and the sophisticated play on the harmonica and saxophone."
Concert in Öhringen on January 25, 2013
“Dieter Gasde is one of those music artists who can elicit interesting sounds from almost any object. A simple glass of water is enough for the Eisenacher to produce horn-like tones, or an " NVA speaking capsule", which is a small megaphone from the blessed GDR times and which he converts into a quasi-trombone after he has responded to earlier border control calls remembered. [...] Bandleader Gasde also plays the tenor saxophone, flute and harmonica - and he is also responsible for the percussion. For this he uses a cajon and a snare drum as drums, but sometimes, for example in BB Kings Let the good times roll , uses a washboard with a saucepan screwed on. He plays some of this almost at the same time, and a self-made frame in front of his mouth helps him to do this, to which a mouthpiece, harp and horn are attached. [...] On top of that, Gasde is a good singer who is also familiar with scat singing. "
Concert in Altleiningen on July 13, 2013
“Gasde is a musical phenomenon that is second to none. On the one hand, the man plays the drums in a very unusual combination. He is sitting on a cajon , a wooden box that has increasingly found its way into the music scene as a percussion instrument in recent years. But he operates the box with the pedal, while at the same time playing the flute or saxophone. If he doesn't pick up one of his woodwind instruments, then he may be using the harmonica or using his voice to imitate the sound of brass. "
Discography (selection)
| year | tape | title | Involved | Tracklist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Good news and friends | Good news | Dieter Gasde, Hendrik Kleditz, Wolfgang Leyk, Christoph Gottwald, Frank Müller, Rudolf Schmidt | 1. Good News , 2. I Went To The Hope Joint , 3. Six Feet Under The Ground , 4. I'm Grateful , 5. Bright Lights, Big City , 6. Watermelonman , 7. Mind Your Own Business , 8. Sweet Little Baby , 9. When The Things Go Wrong , 10. You Got To Move , 11. Caledonia , 12. Cakewalk Into Town , 13. You Fly To My Head Like A Wine , 14. Hound Dog , 15. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer , 16. Trouble In Mind , 17. People Get Ready |
Awards (selection)
- 1986: Chanson and songwriter award together with Christoph Neumann as the Duo Bluesong
literature
- Background text on the blues in Thuringia: Reinhard Lorenz: Tell me where you are - In the undergrowth of the Thuringian blues , in: Michael Rauhut and Reinhard Lorenz (eds.): I've had the blues a little longer - traces of a music in Germany , Christoph Links Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3861534952
Web links
- Website and Facebook page of Gasdes Musikbüro in Eisenach
- Gasde at the department for creative proclamation / youth and popular music of the Children's and Youth Parish Office of the Protestant Church in Central Germany: Website 1 , Website 2
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- ↑ http://www.eisenachonline.de/kultur/circus-lila-wird-wieder-belebt-20963
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.wartburg-records.de/Wartburg_Records/Startseite.html
- ↑ http://www.amazon.de/l%C3%A4nger-Spuren-Deutschland-Vorwort-Wenders/dp/3861534959/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354410865&sr=8-1
- ↑ http://www.crossover-agm.de/cdgoodnews.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://eisenach.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/kultur/detail/-/specific/Mitreissendes-Silvesterkonzert-im-Kunstpavillon-in-Eisenach-1385230253
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gasde, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German blues musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |