Max Lässer

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Max Lässer (born September 27, 1950 in Zurich ) is a Swiss guitarist , composer , producer and band leader .

Live and act

Max Lässer has been working as a freelance musician since 1972. During the first few years mainly at home in the folk scene , she worked with the songwriters Toni Vescoli and Walter Lietha. Further stations were Hardy Hepps Band Hand in Hand and the songwriter Werner Widmer, with whom he worked on a comedic-musical project under the title Bluesmax . In the mid-80s Max Lässer belonged to Andreas Vollenweider & Friends , with whom he toured in Europe and the USA and took part in recordings. Max Lässer made a name for himself as a studio and live guitarist, for example in Stephan Eicher's Engelberg production, but also as a producer of Jellyfish Kiss and Les Reines Prochaines and as a composer of film music. Together with Christoph Stiefel , he created the music for a documentary about Zurich District 5, the documentary soap opera Kinderspital and Airline, as well as various children's cartoons.

After a first album in folk-rock style (1976), two albums with old Swiss dances followed in 1979 and 1981. Since 1985 he has published several instrumental albums under the title Max Lässer's Ark . At the end of 1995 he traveled to South Africa. The encounters with the singers Lungiswa Plaatjies and Busi Mhlongo , the multi-instrumentalist Pops Mohamed and other musicians exerted a great influence on his music. The project was performed live with 13 musicians and stage Huber under the name No nations . The exchange was deepened in the band project Madamax with the guitarist, singer and composer Madala Kunene from Durban , the singer, percussionist and dancer Lungiswa Plaatjies from Cape Town and with Christoph Stiefel on the keyboards. At the same time as Madamax, Max Lässer began making music with Hank Shizzoe in 1998 . In 1999 and 2000 duo tours followed. In 2001, the album Überland was released , an examination of the music of the Alpine region, and there followed on from his arrangements of old Swiss dances over 25 years ago. In 2002 the eleven-piece country orchestra was founded on the occasion of Expo 02 , followed by a Swiss tour in 2003. The first contact with Hubert von Goisern also took place in 2001 . In the following year Lässer was invited to CD recordings of Goisern's Trad II , which was followed by a 100-concert tour in Europe and Africa in 2004.

In 2010 Max Lässer received the Aargau Culture Prize .

Discography

  • 1985 Into The Rainbow (Max Lässer's Ark) - AF Records - LP 85-01 / Impact, EAN 7640101898514
  • 1989 Earthwalk (Max Lässer's Ark) - Impact, EAN 7640101887518
  • 1990 Timejump (Max Lässer's Ark) - Impact, EAN 0076742676827
  • 1992 A Different Kind Of Blue (Max Lässer's Ark) - Impact, EAN 7640101979213
  • 1996 Between - EAN 7619949896518
  • 1999 Magic Hour - EAN 7619949811689
  • 2000 Madamax - EAN 7640101979817
  • 2001 Ueberland - EAN 7619949812037
  • 2003 Labyrinth (Linard Bardill, Mich Gerber and Max Lässer) - Wigra Sound Service, EAN 9783908250722
  • 2005 BAFO (Max Lässer's Madamax) - Phonag Records, EAN 7619949813010
  • 2009 Überländler (Max Lässer and the Überlandorchester) - EAN 7619994600016
  • 2011 Iigschneit (Max Lässer and the Überlandorchester) - EAN 7619994600023
  • 2014 1: 1 (Max Lässer and the Überlandorchester with Markus Flückiger, Töbi Tobler and Patrick Sommer) - EAN 7619949817421
  • Old Swiss Dances - EAN 7619935030131

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Eric Facon: Freedom for Folk Music. In: The weekly newspaper . January 25, 2007, accessed April 25, 2010 .