Klaus Wiese

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Klaus Wiese (born January 18, 1942 ; † January 27, 2009 in Ulm ) was a German ambient artist.

Life

Wiese began his musical career in the 1970s as a member of the Krautrock group Popol Vuh , for which he played Tanpura on two publications . Already at the beginning of the 1980s, they parted ways: Wiese turned his back on Krautrock and instead joined the movement of electronic and ambient music, which was still young at the time.

Klaus Wiese has published well over 50 solo productions in the course of his career, as well as a number of joint projects with stylistically closely related artists such as Gianluigi Gasparetti ( Oöphoi ), Jim Cole, Saam Schlamminger and Al Gromer Khan . The album El-Hadra - The Mystik Dance , which he produced together with Mathias Grassow and Ted de Jong , sold worldwide and made him a lasting name in this genre.

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Wiese's approach to ambient music is based on the minimalist tradition of composers such as John Cage , Steve Reich and Philip Glass ; the greatest similarities between his room-flooding, ethereal, sometimes almost static, as well as genre-typical extended (sometimes over 60 minutes long) drone passages exist to artists such as Robert Rich and Steve Roach . Wiese was an autodidact throughout his life, a self-trained multi-instrumentalist and, in addition to the zither, used various Persian string instruments, drums, Tibetan singing bowls , chimes and a number of other instruments on his recordings .

Klaus Wiese's life's work, however, can hardly be reduced to his music as such, because for him mystical elements have always been an essential part of his art, he himself emphasized spiritual, therapeutic and healing motifs. Multiple trips to the Orient brought him in particular in connection with the teachings of the Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan , experiences that should also be reflected in his musical expression (and many of his artworks ). Through Wiese, a piece of the Sufis' love of music came to Europe, which, although removed from classical Sufi music, nevertheless has similarities such as ecstasy (wagd) and rapture (hal) (see also: Dhikr ).

Discography (selection)

  • 1981: Baraka (no label)
  • 1982: Maraccaba ( Aquamarin Verlag )
  • 1982: Sabiha Sabiya (Aquamarin Verlag)
  • 1984: Alhambra (Aquamarin Verlag)
  • 1985: Geisha (Akasha Edition)
  • 1985: Mahakala-Puja - Buddhist meditation (with Jens Zimmermann, Edition Akasha)
  • 1985: Secret Doctrine (with Ted de Jong, Aquamarin Verlag)
  • 1985: Tibetan Singing Bowls I (Braune recording studio)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.klaus-wiese.com
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambient artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1942
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2009
Place of death Ulm