Roland Schaeffer
Roland Schaeffer (* 1950 in Baden-Baden ) is a German musician.
Life
Schaeffer grew up in Baden-Baden and founded the jazz rock band Fashion Pink with some musicians in 1968 , which renamed itself to Brainstorm in 1972 and released two LPs while it was active. After graduating from high school, he studied saxophone and double bass at the Karlsruhe University of Music .
After Brainstorm broke up in 1975, he moved to the band Guru Guru , with whom he played until 1982. With Butze Fischer († 2002) and Gerald Luciano Hartwig, both musicians with Guru Guru from 1979 to 1981 , he then started the music project Dadadogs , with which he traveled to India . Between 1981 and 1985 he learned to play the South Indian instrument Nadaswaram . During this time he also performed together with Embryo , Dissidents , Roman Bunka , Marque Löwenthal , Houssaine Kili , Rüdiger Oppermann , Hakim Ludin , Malamini Jobarteh and Mohammed Mounir .
In the mid-1990s he founded the band Free Winds with Heinrich von Kalnein and Jatinder Thakur , which conducted two tours through India and Sri Lanka . A few years later he rejoined Guru Guru , with whom he still performs today.
At the age of 66, Schaeffer became a father for the fourth time in 2017.
Discography
With brainstorm
- 1972 Smile a while (Intercord)
- 1973 Second Smile (Intercord)
With Guru Guru
- 1976 Tango Fango (Metronome Brain)
- 1977 Globetrotter (Metronome Brain)
- 1978 Live (Metronome Brain)
- 1979 Hey DU (Metronome Brain)
- 1980 Mani in Germany (knife and fork / forty-five)
- 1995 Wah Wah (Think Progressive)
- 1998 Moshi Moshi (Think Progressive)
- 1999 30 Years Live (Forty-five) 2 LP
- 1999 30 Years Live (Captain Trip) 3 CD
- 2000 2000 Gurus (Forty-five / Indigo)
- 2005 In the Guru Lounge (Revisited / SPV)
- 2008 PSY (trance)
- 2009 Live on tour 2008 (Trance)
- 2011 Doublebind (Trance)
- 2013 Electric Cats (In-Akustik)
With others
- 1975 with crumbling machine: Peter Bursch and the crumbling machine (Intercord)
- 1977 with Hellmut Hattler: Bassball (Bassball Records)
- 1980 with house music: Earmail (transmitter)
- 1980 with Rich Schwab: Almost always (Biber)
- 1982 with Rich Schwab: Just love me (Biber / Capriola)
- 1982 with Dadadogs: Roland and the Dadadogs (beavers)
- 1982 with Paramashivam: Paramashivam meets Roland and the Dadadogs (beavers)
- 1989 with Embryo: Turn Peace (Snowball)
- 1993 with embryo: Ibn Battuta (Snowball)
- 1996 with Free Winds: Free Winds (Shamrock)
- 1996 with Hakim Ludin: The Silk Road (Bellaphon)
- 1999 with Free Winds: Indian Air (Shamrock)
- 2000 with Gary Wright: Human Love (Koch / Orchard)
- 2002 with Mani Neumeier: Birthday! (Forty-five / Indigo)
Roland Schaeffer Solo, Trio
- 2003 Roland Schaeffer plays Baden Baden "Soundscapes" (Klangwelten)
- 2011 Tiru CD
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaeffer, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |