Heiko Schramm

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Heiko Schramm

Heiko Schramm (born June 8, 1971 in Dresden ) is a German musician ( electric bass , double bass , guitar , vocals), songwriter and essayist.

Musical life

In 1988 the band Friends of Italian Opera was formed around the singer RJKK Hänsch , the cold front guitarist Jänz Dittschlag , the drummer Tom Gross, the trombonist Rainer A. Schmidt and Heiko Schramm on bass. Later members were keyboardist Roger Baptist (aka Rummelsnuff) and drummer Ralph Qno Kunze . In 1989 Wolfgang Engel engaged the Friends of the Italian Opera for his Faust I & II production at the Dresden State Theater . In 1991, the incumbent director of the Dresden State Theater, Dieter Görne , approved the FDIO's plan to perform its own unique revue in the State Theater. This made the FDIO the first rock band in the company's history. Schramm took part in the albums Um Thron und Liebe and Edle Einfalt, Stille Größe . He left the band in 1992, but went into the studio in November 2005 with the original line-up from 1989 to 1992 and the opera singer René Pape to record a song for an ARTE documentary about Pape.

From the short collaboration (1989) with the band Cosmic Comic Connection Cowboys, in which Schramm acted as one of two bassists, a creative and friendly relationship with the bassist, producer and studio operator Edgar M. Roethig (Helicopter Tonstudio Dresden) arose to this day. . In 1990 he met the singer and guitarist Jens Berger and founded the band Need A New Drug with him and the drummer Thomas Wolf. The albums Greedy Moon (1990) and Santa Cruz (1992, under the production of Jorge Cousineau) were created. Working with Berger was formative for his powerful and melodic “guitar” bass sound, which resulted from equal collaboration on the arrangements, as well as the reduced form of a trio, which in more complex compositions uses the bass as a transmitter between the rhythmic framework on one side , and becomes the second melody option on the other side.

In 1993 Schramm went to Berlin and founded the trio XID with Stephan Hachtmann and Ulrik Spiess from the Berlin band Stan Red Fox ( Lars Rudolph ), with whom Schramm recorded the albums XID (1994) and Stralsund (1995). 1996 return to Dresden and renewed collaboration with Jens Berger under the name Gaffa. Gero Dumrath on drums, from 1997 with Peter Krutsch, later with Jörg A. Schneider. The albums Wilful Things (2000, produced by Edgar M. Roethig) and Amusement Park (2004) were created. The band was inspired by blues musicians on Fat Possum Records and z. B. Bukka White , Skip James , Jesse Fuller - but shaped by the sadness of their East German suburban origins. Schramm played for Gaffa until 2004.

At the same time, the collaboration with Rüdiger Pässler, Matthias Macht and Matthias Petzold began in 1999 under the name Thermoking. The album Fuego was created in 2000 under the production of Jorge Cousineau and Matthias Petzold, and Edgar M. Roethig was the recording manager. After Pässler's departure and the renaming to Goldoni, the album of the same name was created in 2001 under the same producer team. In 2000 Paul Simang offered to set the film Matrix again with a DJ team and to perform it live in the Dresden cultural center Scheune . Matthias Macht, Matthias Petzold, DJ Studio 17 and Schramm called the band Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc. (TMABI) into being for this event, which was actually limited to three or four shows. The performances became a success and the band existed well beyond that until 2009.

In 2001 Schramm met the American singer and Dobro guitarist Chris Whitley . He invited him to take over the US tour for the already recorded album Rocket House on bass. The recordings for Rocket House included a. starring: Stephen Barber, Dave Matthews , Bruce Hornsby and Whitley's daughter Trixie. The tour cast included u. a. Tony Mangurian on drums (who also produced Rocket House ), New York DJ Logic and keyboardist Etienne Lytle. Whitley and Schramm then recorded the acoustic album Hotel Vast Horizon together with Matthias Macht in 2002 . It was produced by Edgar M. Roethig and Schramm in Dresden, and is the highlight of Schramm's work as a bassist. The song “Breaking Your Fall” from this album won the “ Independent Music Award ” in the category “Best Folk” in spring 2004 / Singer-Songwriter Song ”. An extensive US tour took the band across the United States in 44 concerts. The album was also toured in Belgium and France.

While recording the soundtrack for the film Pigs Will Fly (director: Eoin Moore , 2003) Schramm worked with Whitley and Macht under the production of Warner Poland and Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt . In 2004, the same cast made the recordings for Soft Dangerous Shores in Kingston , New York under the production of Malcolm Burn . In 2005 Schramm played the album Reiter In as a member of Chris Whitley & the Bastard Club in Catskill , New York, under the production of Kenny Siegal. Richard Holbrook was the production manager. On this, last album by Chris Whitley, the following continued to work: Brian Geltner, Tim Beattie, Kenny Siegal, Sean Balin, Gwen Snyder and Susann Bürger.

In 2008, Schramm und Macht toured the southern western United States with singer / songwriter Paul Sprawl from Santa Cruz, California . The album Great American Opera was created in the Sutton Sound studio in Atascadero , California .

Since 2009 Schramm has been working on his own songs, which he usually plays solo under the name Blenderman and with various musicians such as Matthias Macht, Studio 17 and Fran Dango. The albums created during this time have been published as a series with the title The 9th-Floor Tapes | 1-6 published. To Walk Down Memory Lane "(2014) and To All The Locos" (2014) have been published so far , and in March 2016 God of Bitumen , which for the first time bears the joint signature of Schramm and Fran Dango in the field of text and music. This was followed in June 2016 by the EP Blenderman at Daft Audio and The Ralph at the beginning of 2017. In addition to Matthias Macht, other musicians such as B. Ralph Qno Kunze on the recordings. In February 2018 the EP The Thousand-Yard Stare was released , on which a number of the above-mentioned musicians participated again.

Bands

  • 1988–1992 friends of Italian opera
  • 1990-1996 Need A New Drug
  • 1993-1995 XID
  • 1996-2004 Gaffa
  • 1997-2000 Thermoking
  • 2000-2001 Goldoni
  • 2001-2005 Chris Whitley
  • 2001-2008 Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc.
  • 2008–2009 Paul Sprawl / Worn Out West

Discography

Friends of the Italian Opera

  • 1990: Suspected terrorists in custody ... / God save the interior minister (tape)
  • 1990: Live in Munich (tape)
  • 1991: Il Grande Silenzio (tape)
  • 1991: Live at the Schauspielhaus Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: Live in Dresden (tape)
  • 1991: To Throne and Love (LP)
  • 1996: Noble simplicity, quiet size (CD, Strandard63 )
  • 1997: Um Throne und Liebe (CD, Strandard63 / What's So Funny About )
  • 1997: Rare, rare and enigmatic recordings with Um Thron und Liebe / Edle Einfalt Stille Größe (CD box. Strandard63 / What's So Funny About)

Need a new drug

  • 1990: Greedy Moon (LP, Par Excellence )
  • 1992: Santa Cruz (LP / CD, Berry Berry)

XID

  • 1993: XID (CD, Rough Trade )
  • 1994: Stralsund (CD, Rough Trade)

Gaffa

  • 2000: Wilful Things (LP / CD, Doxa Records )
  • 2004: Amusement Park (LP / CD, Doxa Records)

Thermoking

  • 1999: Fuego (CD, Fathers & Sons)

Goldoni

  • 2001: Goldoni (CD, Goo International)

Chris Whitley

Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc.

  • 2001: Tijuana Mon Amour Broadcasting Inc. (LP / CD, Tijuana Music / Hobby de Luxe)
  • 2003: Songs (CD, Tijuana Music / Hobby de Luxe)
  • 2004: Day After, the Day Before (CD, Doxa Records / Remixes)
  • 2006: The Jubilee of the Snowqueen (LP / CD, BURO / City Center Offices)

Paul Sprawl / Worn Out West

  • 2009: Great American Opera (CD)

Blenderman / HESH

  • 2014: To Walk Down Memory Lane (Download)
  • 2014: To All The Locos (Download)
  • 2016: God of Bitumen (Download)
  • 2016: Blenderman at Daft Audio (Download)
  • 2017: The Ralph (Download)
  • 2018: The Thousand-Yard Stare (Download)

FDIO on TV

  • ARTE : The bass René Pape - My heart burns, director: Sibylle Muth

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Gürtler: "A social event of rank", Sächsische Zeitung of March 27, 1991
  2. ↑ Ann Powers, " Pop Review; Blues with a Scratch, " New York Times, July 12, 2001
  3. ↑ Independent Music Awards - 3rd Annual Winners  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.musiciansatlas.com  
  4. ↑ https://blenderman.bandcamp.com/
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8th 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden