Thomas Gäbhard
Thomas Gäbhard (born November 4, 1963 in Munich ) is a German musician , music producer and composer .
Life
Thomas Gäbhard began his musical work in the late 1980s. Originally from electronic music and the New Age (such as Tangerine Dream , Brian Eno , Vangelis ), it was increasingly influenced by the sound of the 1980s ( Kraftwerk , Cabaret Voltaire , DAF ). At first he worked with various cash register recorders and analog sequencers , and from 1990 onwards he also used computers and samplers as Arcana obscura . The music of Arcana Obscura can be described as a multi-layered mixture of danceable electronica with medieval and world music elements as well as influences from dark electro .
Parallel to Arcana Obscura , the music project Gäbhard , the purely instrumental side of the musician , is developing . The more meditative music of the solo project is inspired by various long-distance trips (South America, Southeast Asia, etc.) and is performed by Thomas Gäbhard in the context of concerts, slide and film screenings in connection with his photo, slide and video works. 1997 released the project Gäbhard his first album Breath of Fading Moments ; In 2010 the second album JALAN JALAN followed .
In 1995 Disastrous Din was created as an experimental industrial project and SONICGUM as a trance electronic dance music project. Since 2010, SONICGUM has been making musical contributions to the inter-media dance project Cyberkinetix in addition to sound design (for the audification of dance movements through motion tracking ) .
Together with Claudia Pescatore, responsible for vocals and lyrics, and Peter Fleschhut, Thomas Gäbhard founded the electro-pop band Eternit in 2009 . Also in 2009, the musical project of the three musicians, Thomas Gäbhard, Peter Fleschhut and Fred Luuft, which had been open until then, became the band Mollton , which can be assigned to the styles of lounge music , chillout and ambient .
Thomas Gäbhard also worked with other bands: So with White Light White Heat (1993–1995) or together with Peter Fleschhut as CLANDESTINE (1993–2002) and with the Munich choreographer Angelika Meindl as PROWL, z. B. in machine tanzt 1 (2001) and machine tanzt 2 (2012), one of the ArtGenossen productions in co-production with the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
In 1993 Thomas Gäbhard founded his own independent label ConSequence Records with the associated ConSequence music publisher . This small label soon established itself in the dark wave , gothic and electro scene, with releases from bands such as Swans of Avon , Call , D'arcadia , Organized Noise , or Phase III . Here Gäbhard appears as a music producer together with Ian John Hudson for the band D'arcadia and for the debut album of the artist Jana Lanka.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirco Dannemann: Arcana Obscura - Delusion , New Life Soundmagazine, Edition 6/95, p. 36, June 1995
- ^ Thomas Gäbhard Discography
- ^ Thomas Gäbhard Discography
- ↑ SONICGUM / Tom Orkana at Cyberkinetix
- ^ Thomas Gäbhard Discography
- ↑ ConSequende Records website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gäbhard, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, music producer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th November 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |