Kalle Wallner
Karlheinz "Kalle" Wallner (born June 25, 1972 in Freising ) is a German guitarist . He is a founding member of the band RPWL founded in 1996 , solo artist and co-owner of a music label and a music studio .
Life
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Kalle Wallner gained his first musical experience at the age of six when he was taking lessons in classical guitar . From 1982 he attended the Camerloher high school in Freising , where he received violin lessons and later became a member of the school orchestra. In 1983 he received his first electric guitar and founded his first band, followed by various local bands and performances.
After graduating from high school in 1991, he did his community service at the Red Cross Freising. In 1991, at the age of only 19, he recorded the first CD of his band "Violet District" at the time in the studio of producer Yogi Lang. The album Terminal Breath was released in 1992 in self-distribution. From 1992 to 1994 he completed a degree in psychology at the University of Regensburg , which he completed with an intermediate diploma. From 1994 to 1996 he finally studied at the Munich Guitar Institute (MGI) in Munich .
From 1996 Wallner worked as a studio and live guitarist in various bands and projects and made his first appearance with a band that was named RPWL in 1997 (on the occasion of the reopening of the Lindenkeller Freising). In 1999 he founded the "Farm Studios" together with RPWL bandmate Yogi Lang to produce the first RPWL album God Has Failed , which was released in 2000. A total of 15 RPWL albums were produced there by 2017, which were initially released by the Tempus Fugit and Inside Out labels by 2010.
Wallner has been making his own productions since 2000 and composes for numerous other artists and companies, including a. Fendt, Dr. Spiller. Between 2003 and 2010 he ran a. a. together with Yogi Lang the company Farmlands, which not only acted as a label and booking or event agency, but also as a recording studio and event organizer; this company founded u. a. the Uferlos Festival in Freising.
In 2007 Wallner launched his solo project “Blind Ego”, with which he released the album Mirror that same year, which included an unreleased track by Violet District. The guests on the album are the English musicians John Mitchell ( It Bites ) and Paul Wrightson (Ex- Arena ). From 2008 to 2014 Wallner was the guitarist of the Austrian band Cama . In 2009 he released the second blind ego album Numb , u. a. with Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera and again Paul Wrightson as guests. The bass player on the first two blind ego albums was the Englishman John Jowitt ( IQ , Arena, Frost * ).
In 2010 Wallner founded the label " Gentle Art of Music " with Yogi Lang . The label's first release was the album Terminal Breath by "Violet District" as a re-release on vinyl. Since it was founded, this label has released more than 50 albums with the Soulfood distributor , including the RPWL albums released in 2010, and signed 20 artists.
In 2016, Blind Ego's third solo album called Liquid , u. a. with the singers Arno Menses ( Subsignal ), Erik Ez Blomkvist (Ex- Dreamscape ) and Aaron Brooks (Simeon Soul Charger), as well as the bass trio Sebastian Harnack ( Sylvan ), Ralf Schwager (Subsignal) and Heiko Jung ( Panzerballett ). At the same time, Wallner released the single Blackened . Blind Ego went on a European tour in 2017 and published a complete concert on YouTube that was filmed in the Logo in Hamburg . On November 10, 2017 the live album Liquid Live by Blind Ego was released, which contains the CD Live at Loreley and the DVD Live at Logo Hamburg (identical to the YouTube video).
family
Wallner married in 2013. Since then he has lived and worked both in Freising and near Innsbruck in Austria .
Equipment
Kalle Wallner prefers to play guitars from the German manufacturer Nik Huber Guitars and guitar amplifiers from the German company Diezel Amplification . Wallner's connection to Nik Huber Guitars is documented in the 2017 video Blind Ego - From Idea To Reality: The Story So Far .
Discography
Solo Works (Blind Ego)
Albums
Studio albums
- 2007: Mirror (Red Farm Records / Farmlands Music; remastered in 2011, Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood, contains two additional bonus tracks)
- 2009: Numb (Red Farm Records / Farmlands Music; remastered in 2011, Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood, contains an additional bonus track)
- 2016: Liquid (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood)
Live albums
- 2017: Liquid Live (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood), contains the CD Live at Loreley and the DVD Live at Logo Hamburg
Videos
Music videos
- 2016: Blackened (Director: Sebastian Harnack)
Live videos
- 2017: Live at Logo, Hamburg (full concert)
Documentation
- 2017: Blind Ego - From Idea To Reality: The Story So Far
With RPWL (extract)
Studio albums
- 2000: God Has Failed (Tempus Fugit)
- 2002: Trying to Kiss the Sun (Tempus Fugit / Point Music )
- 2003: Stock (Tempus Fugit / SPV / InsideOut ; CD and DVD)
- 2005: World Through My Eyes (Tempus Fugit / SPV / InsideOut; released as audio CD and hybrid SACD / CD with bonus track)
- 2007: 9 (self-distribution; limited edition - 999 copies)
- 2008: The RPWL Experience (Tempus Fugit / SPV / InsideOut)
- 2010: The Gentle Art of Music (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood / BMG ; double CD)
- 2012: Beyond Man and Time (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood / BMG; released as audio CD and as limited double CD with audio book)
- 2014: Wanted (Gentle Art of Music; released as audio CD and as a limited double CD + DVD box as well as a vinyl double album)
Live albums
- 2005: Start the Fire (Tempus Fugit / SPV / InsideOut; live recording, double CD)
- 2009: The RPWL Live Experience ( Metal Mind Productions ; live recording, released as double CD, DVD and double CD + DVD box)
- 2013: A Show Beyond Man and Time (Metal Mind Productions; live recording, released as double CD and DVD)
- 2015: RPWL plays Pink Floyd (Gentle Art of Music; live recordings)
- 2016: RPWL Plays Pink Floyd's 'The Man And The Journey' (Gentle Art of Music; Live album consisting of CD and DVD)
- 2017: A New Dawn (Gentle Art of Music; live album, released as Blu-Ray, DVD, double CD, triple vinyl and as a limited collector's box)
With Violet District
- 1992: Terminal Breath (self-distribution)
- 2000: Terminal Breath (Tempus Fugit; reworking of the 1992 album with a 1996 live CD)
- 2010: Terminal Breath (Gentle Art of Music / Soulfood; re-release on vinyl)
With Cama
Singles
- 2008: In This Life
- 2009: Fade Away
- 2009: Walk with You
- 2010: 25 Years
- 2011: Bye Bye Summer
- 2011: Times of Our Lives
Albums
- 2009: A Handful of Songs
- 2010: Another Handful of Songs
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallner, Kalle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallner, Karlheinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician (guitar) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freising |