Percussion Academia
Percussion Academia is a former world music ensemble that was founded in 1978.
The ensemble consisted of Sigi Schwab (guitar), Guillermo Marchena and Freddie Santiago . Schwab, a classical guitarist with a penchant for jazz-rock fusion, had played with Wolfgang Dauner , Eberhard Schoener , Peter Trunk , and also Art Farmer and Astor Piazzolla in the 1970s , and at the time also worked with Peter Horton ( Guitarissimo 1980) and Chris Hinze ( Backstage 1983). In addition to these guitar formations and his classical recordings, he also wanted to play with drums.
Marchena was involved in Klaus Doldinger's Passport , and Santiago came from Peter Herbolzheimer's Rhythm Combination & Brass . The ensemble is considered to be a representative of early world music .
They worked together for 15 years, recorded several CDs and went on numerous tours. In 1984 they performed at the 1st Ingolstadt Jazz Days, among others .
From 1987 Hilko Schomerus played in the project for almost a year. Sigi Schwab changed the ensemble name Percussion Academia to Percussion Projekt after Marchena's early demise in 1994 and continued the group with Andreas Keller and Ramesh Shotham .
The debut album Rondo a Tre was recorded in April 1983 at Union Studios in Munich. The first edition was pressed using the then controversial DMM process.
Discography
- 1983: Rondo A Tre
- 1985: Silversand
- 1995: Sigi Schwab & Percussion Academia Live
Individual evidence
- ↑ ingolstadt.de news ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hilko Schomerus , schlagwerk.com
- ↑ 10dance.de
- ↑ merkle-kulturkonzepte.de ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ LeForum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Special issue 3/2007 (pdf)
