Ernst Ulrich Deuker

Ernst Ulrich Deuker (born July 13, 1954 in Trier ) is a German bassist and double bass clarinetist . He became known with the band Ideal .

Ernst Deuker with double bass clarinet, 2007

Life

In the mid-1960s he made his first musical attempts with his brother Martin, Eberhard Pilaski and Michael Frings in groups such as Amunition Chest or Chaos . In 1968 Deuker received his first electric bass. In the early 1970s he founded the political rock band Linkerton together with his brother Martin in Berlin . During this time he began to be interested in jazz, but a short detour into the Berlin fusion scene ended in an artistic dead end.

In 1979 the Neue Deutsche Welle formation Ideal met for the first time ; The first album, Ideal , was released in 1980, followed by the album Der Ernst des Lebens, produced by Conny Plank in 1981 . Tours and festivals at home and abroad followed (Roskilde and Montreux 1982) as well as various television appearances. At the beginning of 1983 the band split up, although the third ideal album "BiNuu" - produced by Micki Meuser and Gareth Jones - sold around 150,000 times.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Deuker initiated various cross-disciplinary alternative projects such as The Optical Concert (multimedia live performance in collaboration with the painter and book illustrator Gabo), or the Kae E and Cabel Dance Band . There were also occasional studio and concert jobs ( Alphaville , Die Zwei). In between he worked as a cook (in the Berlin gourmet restaurant Paris-Moscow or in the studio for the Rainbirds ) or worked as a cheese producer in the Alsatian Vosges . After attending a Howard Johnson concert , Deuker discovered his interest in the double bass clarinet in 1982. It took him two years to find a suitable example of this unusual instrument.

Since the early 2000s he has been working increasingly as a double bass clarinetist with jazz musicians; he played with Theo Jörgensmann , Christopher Dell and Michael Jüllich , among others . In 2004 Deuker was also the front man, singer, guitarist and double bass clarinetist of the avant-pop project "EU COMMISSION", which in 2004 released the album Nachtsongs, Nightsongs on Below Recordings.

Since 2009 Deuker has been playing with Theo Jörgensmann in the Deep Down Clarinet Duo and with young musicians in the progressive funk formation Ffunkoff; other current projects: the Bartók improvisation ensemble Affäre Bela B., with saxophonist Edith Steyer, as well as Personen (4) , with his nephew Christian Hohenbild, dr, synth, Stefan Dittmar, gtr, and Ole Tholen, as.

In 2016 he published two books - the improvisation textbook “On the Way to a Grammar of Free Musical Speech” and the black and humorous graphic novel “Adam Marody” drawn by Gabo .

Web links

• ideal
• Deuker at myspace
• Deep Down Clarinet Duo at myspace

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Search result on Amazon.de for: eudeuker: books. In: www.amazon.de. Retrieved December 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Arturo Riffkin Kormoran: FFUNKOFF. (No longer available online.) In: www.ffunkoff.net. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017 ; accessed on December 28, 2016 . 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.  
3. ^ Bela B. affair, "Edith Steyer. (No longer available online.) In: www.edith-steyer.de. Archived from the original on December 28, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2016 . 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.  
4. ↑ persons (4): persons (4) - Toni can do it. November 15, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016 .