Michael Duwe

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Michael Duwe aka Mickie D 2012

Michael Duwe , also known under the pseudonym Mickie D , is a composer , musician and music producer from Berlin . In addition to composing and producing soundtracks for German TV series and documentaries, he has released various solo albums, including his best-known work "Mickie D's Unicorn" (IC / WEA 1979), and with bands, musicians and producers as diverse as Agitation Free , Ash Ra Tempel , Klaus Schulze , Michael Hoenig , Michael Shrieve , Wolfgang Loos ( Alphaville ) and Conny Plank .

Career

Early years

He began as a singer / songwriter in the late 1960s, was a founding member of the Berlin formation Agitation Free and as a singer and performer with the musical HAIR from 1970 toured Germany and Switzerland for a year and a half.

In 1972, at the invitation of Hartmut Enke and Manuel Göttsching, he took part with Ash Ra Tempel as lead singer in the recording session for the psychedelic album Seven Up , which was created together with Timothy Leary in the Sinus Studio in Bern.

He was a founding member of the Berlin band Metropolis , with whom he released the LP Metropolis and the single Super Plastic Club in 1973 as a singer and guitarist . Based on Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man , the band produced a multimedia show that premiered on Christmas Eve 1975 at the Kant-Kino in Berlin before the band finally broke up in the summer of 1976.

For the Forum Theater in Berlin he composed and played the incidental music for the play Die Halb des Himmels und Wir (La Moitié du ciel et nous) by the French author and director Armand Gatti .

In the winter of 1975/1976, Duwe and Conny Konzack organized the first concerts there for his Kant-Kino before founding Albatros Concerts and touring with Man, Styx and the early Dire Straits. As a “local promoter” in Berlin, he organized numerous concerts and festivals in just under two years. a. with bands like Patty Smith, Lou Reed, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley or Blondie. After the Waldbühne had been dismantled into its individual parts with the Rolling Stones concert in 1965 and could no longer be used for rock concerts for many years, he organized a rock festival again for the first time with Albatros Concerts in 1977, with u. a. Manfred Mann's Earthband, the Small Faces and Uriah Heep.

In 1978 he retired from the event business. For the solo album of ex-Tangerine Dream Michael Hoenig Departure from the Northern Wasteland he composed and recorded the instrumental Sun & Moon .

When Klaus Schulze founded the IC label in 1978, Duwe became the first contract artist. Together with Schulze, he produced Mickie D's Unicorn , an album full of fairy tale themes and characters. It is about dragons, witches, elves and fairies, the lyrics are clearly inspired by The Lord of the Rings and The Last Unicorn , and the music is a peculiar mixture of synthesizer sounds from the Berlin School, space guitar and often polyphonic singing, a milestone in the fusion of pop and electronics at the time. Guest musicians included Manuel Göttsching ( Ash Ra Tempel ), Michael Shrieve (ex-Santana), Mano Opitz (Metropolis, Lilly Berlin) and the KRAAN musicians Helmut Hattler and Jan Friede.

“Here on his 1st album he plays an awesome Space Guitar (Hillage meets Göttsching) often accompanied by primitive but irresistible sequencers and he sings with a cool voice that reminds me slightly of uncle F. Zappa. He's supported by Hattler & Fride of Kraan fame, Göttsching (only programming on 1 track) and 2 ominous guys called "Mano" (Polymoog-Strings, Minimoog, Celli and Oboe) and "Sunshine" on drums. ”

- Shamal : rateyourmusic.com

Further solo works followed in the next few years.

Later years

In the mid-1980s he founded the music and media production company Einhorn media & entertainment GmbH , and later, in close partnership with Edel Records , the Navigator label . For the Berlin Academy of the Arts, he developed and managed two labels for contemporary music, The Listening Room and Academy , composed and produced the musical show X-94, and planned and directed the festival for young art and culture Z 2000 together with Christian Kneisel .

In 2002 Edel Records published the book and CD Mickie D's Erotic Fairytales , composed, written and recorded by Duwe, with musical guests such as Mano Opitz, Joo Kraus and George Kranz . The production is based on authentic traditional erotic fairy tales from all over the world, which were collected, edited and written down by him. The resulting musical celebrated its premiere under the same title in the same year at the Theater der Stadt Brandenburg.

Since the mid-1990s he has been writing and producing soundtracks for German television, for docu-dramas such as Sphinx - Secrets of History (also known as ZDF Expedition ), for Terra-X or TV films from the Polizeiruf 110 and Tatort series , often in Cooperation with Torsten Sense .

He also composes Music For Meditation ( Brenda Davies - Welcome Prosperity ), plays the ukulele with the Berlin Ukulele Orchestra and is active as a guest musician from time to time. B. Solo guitar on Salvation , single from the album Our Time Will Come by the band KMFDM from 2015.

Works

solo

  • Mickie D's Unicorn (album) (1979)
  • Mickie D's Unicorn - The Searcher (Single) (1979)
  • Mickie D's Unicorn - No Regrets (1989)
  • Mickie D's Unicorn - Aladdin (1993)
  • Mickie D's Erotic Fairytales (2002)
  • Trance Vania - Dracula (1994)

With Ash Ra Temple

  • Seven Up (album) (1972)
  • Cosmic Couriers (album) (1972)
  • Tropical Heat (1991)

With Agitation Free

  • Fragments (1974)
  • Workers Son radio play (1974)

With Metropolis

  • Metropolis (1974)
  • Super Plastic Club (1974)

As a producer and / or musician and / or composer

  • KMFDM Our Time Will Come (2015)
  • Brenda Davies - Soulgarden (2006)
  • Brenda Davies - Just Be (2005)
  • Dance Of The World - Live (2000)
  • Best Of Sean Connery (Edel 1993)
  • Best Of Kevin Costner (Edel 1992)
  • Raducano - Gipsy In Blue (Navigator 1990)
  • Lu Lafayette's Wolfsmoon - On a Hot Trail (Navigator 1990)
  • Around The World In 80 Days (Edel 1989)
  • Secret Lovers - Too Young (Teldec 1988)
  • Secret Lovers - I See It In Your Eyes (Teldec 1987)

Soundtracks

Movies

Documentaries

  • The Knights Templar
  • Trapped in the realm of the Shogun
  • The vengeance of the rain god
  • Queen of the Nile - Hatshepsut
  • Sons of the Desert - Through the Sahara
  • Sons of the Desert - By Gobi & Taklamakan
  • Akhenaten & Nefertiti
  • In search of the grail
  • Destroy Carthage
  • Devil on the silk road
  • Buddha
  • Mohammed
  • Jesus
  • Trips to hell

Individual evidence

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Duwe, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mickie D
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century