Sacha Korn

Sacha Korn (* 1975 in Babelsberg ) is a German musician and music manager. He played in various bands and worked as a studio guitarist with several producers before starting his solo project in 2008 under his real name, Sacha Korn. He was able to prevent the constitution protection from being mentioned as a right-wing extremist songwriter . Nevertheless, he is assigned to the right-wing extremist scene, as several of his songs are on the so-called schoolyard CDs . He sees himself as a patriotic songwriter.

life and career

Sacha Korn grew up in Teltow, right on the border with what was then West Berlin. After graduating from high school in 1995, he began to study economics at the University of Potsdam , which he did not finish. A short time later, Korn began his studies at the Los Angeles Music Academy (LAMA). One of his lecturers was Frank Gambale , who headed the guitar department there. Due to differences between Korn and one of his teachers, the former Pointer Sisters guitarist Bill Fowler, Korn left the LAMA and switched to the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, where he studied with Scott Henderson , among others .

Parallel to his guitar training, Korn also took courses in music business with Kenny Kerner, the producer of the gold-winning debut album by the US band Kiss .

In the spring of 2001, Korn returned to Germany and studied guitar for two more semesters at the Modern Music School in Aschaffenburg with Michael Sagmeister. During this time he played in several bands and worked as a studio guitarist and as a lecturer at music schools. Korn's stays in the USA and especially his studies at LAMA shaped his guitar playing.

In 2001 Korn was discovered at a festival in Riga, ForteRiga (music fair in Eastern Europe, similar to Midem and Popkomm ) by Artemi Troitsky, one of the most influential Russian music critics, who gave him his first record deal with the largest Russian indie label “Soyuz “Helped. In the same year Korn's debut album was released in Russia and the other CIS countries. Further publications followed in Eastern Europe and Asia.

In 2001 Korn began working in the Berlin recording studio of Passion Fruit singer Viola Schubbe, aka Dawn.

In the same year, in addition to his own musical activities, Korn began to license various artists and bands in the former Eastern Bloc states and later also to manage and advise them. So he also delivered u. a. some remixes for the debut album of the Polish actress and pop singer Kaja Paschalska , which was later awarded gold.

In 2004 he signed a consultancy agreement with the artist Terence Trent D'Arby , who enjoyed great success with the song “Sign your name across my heart” at the end of the eighties. In the same year, Korn entered into cooperation with the Russian football champions and UEFA Champions League participant, “ Lokomotiv Moscow ”: Korn also played at the official dressing-up appointment for the players in the Moscow stadium. Following this, Korn went on a concert tour in Russia with his second album "Power". During this time he lived in Milan, from where he founded his label "East-international-music" in Lodz (Poland) in 2004 and under which D'Arby's album "Wildcard" was released throughout Eastern Europe in 2005.

Musically, Korn worked a lot in the following years (since 2004) with the Polish underground artist Robert Tuta ( Agressiva 69 ). Shortly after founding his label, Korn moved to Lodz in 2005 in order to be able to work more actively on the Eastern European market, to further expand his label and to work on a new album together with Tuta. Between 2005 and 2009, more than 30 artists published their music under "East-international-music".

In 2006, Korn played his first concerts in China with his own music and also appeared there as a guest speaker at a music conference. At the end of 2006 he returned to the east coast of the USA for a few concerts. In the same year, two of his songs appeared on a Microsoft X-Box game .

Korn has been a partner and managing director of East-West-Publishing, which cooperates with the Soyuz Medien Group, since 2010. Among other things, the company holds the publishing rights of artists such as Marilyn Manson , the Hooters , Blondie , Massive Attack and many others. in several Eastern European countries.

In March 2012, the Lichtenberg district office prohibited a concert by Sacha Korn, which was supposed to take place in a Hells Angels clubhouse . In 2012 Korn released an EP with the Deutschlandlied in all three stanzas. On his double MCD album How much longer ? he collaborated with the electro band Funker Vogt .

Political classification

In 2011 Korn came under criticism because three of his songs for the state election in Saxony-Anhalt in 2011 appeared on the so-called schoolyard CD of the NPD . Korn said his Canadian management gave the titles to the party without his knowledge. In the context of this publication, Sacha Korn was mentioned in the 2011 report on the protection of the constitution by the protection of the constitution of Brandenburg and listed as a right-wing extremist songwriter. Sacha Korn then sued. On November 20, 2012, there was a settlement between him and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which ended with his name being removed from the report.

Endstation Rechts criticized that Korn would “dig typical right-wing extremist thought patterns out of the moth box” andspread “Germanism and nationalism”in his posts on Facebook . Hegave an interview in issue 19 of themagazine Hier & Jetzt of the Bildungswerk für Heimat und national identity , which isclose tothe NPD . His album Funkenflug , to be releasedin December 2013,could be heard in advance on the NPD homepage. Netz-gegen-Nazis criticized the fact that Korn makes ethnic and right-wing extremist statements on his Facebook page and offers other Facebook members with right-wing extremist sentiments a platform where they can publicly announce them. According to Netz-gegen-Nazis, three days after the attacks in Oslo and Utoya by the right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik,Korn wrotethat “much worse” than the attacks themselves was the “smear campaign” that is already starting against the indigenous people of Europe . "

Discography

Albums

• 2001: modernbreakbeat! (Korn & Flakes, published in Russia, CIS, Czech Republic, Poland)
• 2005: Power (Litzmannstadt, published in Russia, CIS, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, China)
• 2009: Nokout (East-International-Music, published in Germany, USA, Russia, CIS, Bulgaria, Poland, Korea, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia)
• 2011: how much longer? (Left - Right) (East-International-Music)
• 2013: sparks (Nokout Music)
• 2016: Fire (Nokout Music)

EPs / singles

• 2011: Deviationist (in-house production)
• 2012: Das Lied der Deutschen 2012 feat. Dawn ( Passion Fruit ) (Nokout Music)
• 2013: Flying Sparks (download single)

Web links

• Sacha Korn's website

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hannes Heine: Hells Angels: Lichtenberg forbids concert in rocker club. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 3, 2012
2. ↑ According to KURIER report: District cancels rocker party. In: Berliner Kurier . March 3, 2012
3. ↑ Is radio operator Vogt drifting to the right? In: Dunkelwelle. December 13, 2014, accessed December 22, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Maik Baumgärtner & Frank Metzger: Patriotic pop rocker. In: Malfunction reporter . May 13, 2011
5. ↑ Marc Brandstetter: Up to the brown line and beyond: "Right-wing rocker" Sacha Korn. In: right end of the line . July 15, 2012, accessed December 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Marc Brandstetter: "Right-wing rocker" Sacha Korn: "Deutschland-Lied" in all three stanzas should "make you think". In: right end of the line . August 15, 2012, accessed December 9, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Arne Schimmer : “For me, pride was never a question of my surroundings”. (No longer available online.) In: Hier & Jetzt . March 11, 2011, archived from the original on August 17, 2013 ; Retrieved August 29, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Beata Silomon: Right-wing extremist content in "patriotic" guise: Sacha Korn. In: Netz gegenNazis . August 12, 2011, accessed December 9, 2019 .