Michael Rodach
Michael Rodach (* 1957 ) is a German fusion musician ( guitar ) and composer .
Live and act
As a teenager, Rodach was strongly influenced by a television appearance by the Mahavishnu Orchestra . He studied classical music at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Mario Sicca and also jazz at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the 1980s he worked as a guitarist in Berlin with Friedemann Graef and Herwig Mitteregger ; then he belonged to the Berlin fusion band Die Elefanten , with which he presented several albums (partly produced by Teo Macero ), and then toured with Xiame for seven years . He has also worked in studio and live productions with artists as diverse as Bob Moses , David Moss , Lotti Huber , Tiger Okoshi , Kevin Coyne , Paulo Moura , Geschwister Pfister , Georgette Dee , Perry Robinson and Paul Brody as well as in Robert Wilson's production of Ein Wintermärchen involved in the Berliner Ensemble . He can also be heard on albums by Gebhard Ullmann or Kokoon .
For more than twenty years he has composed compositions primarily for dance theater, film (including Rendezvous by Alexander Schüler ) and radio plays. This resulted in collaboration with filmmakers and choreographers such as Dieter Heitkamp, Claudia Feest, Gayle Tufts , Martha Mason, Helge Musial, Calvan Cole, Roberto Galvan, Lutz Gregor , Helga Reidemeister , Ulla Kösterke, Ulrike Brinkmann and Jürgen Zielinski.
Discographic notes
- Degas, Weiser, Rodach Xiame (veraBra Records 1990)
- Music for Fish ( Traumton Records 1995)
- House by the Sea (Traumton Records 1997)
- David Moss & Michael Rodach Fragmentary Blues (Traumton Records 1999)
- Heaven and Hell (Traumton Records 2000)
- On Air (Traumton Records 2002)
- Our situation seems strange (Traumton Records 2009)
- Rodach, Schlothauer, Weiser Fuzzylogics (Timescraper Records 2014)
- The time is round (Traumton Records 2017)
Web links
- Web presence
- Brief portrait (Theater of the Young World)
- Interview (2010)
- Entry (film portal)
- Michael Rodach at Discogs (English)
- Michael Rodach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rodach, Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fusion musician and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |