Pyramid Peak (band)

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Pyramid Peak (Andreas Morsch, Axel Stupplich, Uwe Denzer) at the SynGate Festival in April 2007

Pyramid Peak is a German band that composes electronic music . Their style of music resembles the classic Berlin school , so it is partly comparable with performers like Tangerine Dream .

The band was founded in 1988 by Axel Stupplich and Andreas Morsch from Leverkusen after they met by chance through a mutual friend. Before that, both were in contact with electronic music mainly as listeners. Axel Stupplich was particularly inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, Software and Jean Michel Jarre , Andreas Morsch also by Klaus Schulze's works and Kraftwerk. In 1988 they both decided to make music together and started the project “Digital Dream” with a rather modest equipment , which was renamed “Pyramid Peak” years later.

Before 1998, Pyramid Peak's music had only appeared on MCs. From 1992 to 1997 Andreas Morsch retired from music for a while for health reasons. Only after Uwe Denzer joined Pyramid Peak in 1995 and Andreas Morsch returned to the band in 1998, there were further releases, this time on CD. The first three CDs were still produced by the Monheim label "Invisible Shadows", but after the latter stopped working in 2004, all following albums were produced and distributed directly by Andreas and Axel. All covers - with the exception of the CD Caveland - were created in-house. From 1998 to 2014 Pyramid Peak performed as a trio, since Uwe Denzer's departure in January 2015, Axel Stupplich and Andreas Morsch have been on the road as a duo.

The albums released before 2005 are studio recordings, while the CD The Cave is a live recording of a concert given by Pyramid Peak in October 2009 in the Dechenhöhle in Iserlohn . Her album 5 to 12 was voted the best electronic music CD of 2011 by the jury and the listeners in the Schallwelle election. Their last release is the CD Anatomy from 2013, which was released at the Electronic Circus Festival in Gütersloh and also performed live. The musician Max “Maxxess” Schiefele has been a regular guest at the live performances of Pyramid Peak since 2005, most recently in February 2015 at the concert in the Solingen Güterhallen. At this event, the reading by the author Wolfgang Brunner from his philosophical romance novel "The Butterfly Man" was musically implemented and accompanied by Pyramid Peak and Maxxess. On this evening the new project “Pyramaxx” by Axel Stupplich, Andreas Morsch and Max Schiefele was born. The first joint Pyramaxx album Distance was released in 2015.

Since 2002, Axel Stupplich has also been active solo under the pseudonym Axess in the EM scene and can look back on six CD releases so far. There is also a joint project with Max Schiefele (Axess & Maxxess) with two CDs so far (Contact / 2004 and Impact / 2010). Andreas Morsch has so far released a CD under his pseudonym “Project Andrew Rotten” (En Passant / 2005).

Discography

  • Space (1988)
  • The Second (1988)
  • Digital Mind (1989)
  • Fractals (1990)
  • Star Music (1990)
  • Explorer (1991)
  • Eclipse (1992)
  • Himalaya (1993)
  • Atmosphere (1998)
  • Ocean Drive (1999)
  • Random Events (2000)
  • Fish'n Love (2001)
  • Caveland (2005)
  • Evolution (2007)
  • The Cave (2010)
  • 5 to 12 (2011)
  • Anatomy (2013)
  • Roots (2017)

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