Uwe Cremer

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Uwe Cremer (* 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German musician who lives in Cologne today and publishes his CDs mostly under the name Level π . His music ranges between guitar-driven rock, krautrock and classical electronic music from the Berlin school . Elements from post-punk and gothic rock to trip-hop also flow into his newer productions .

history

Uwe Cremer grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, a time of musical diversity and change. When he heard Kraftwerk Kometenmelodie II and Autobahn at the age of nine , this laid the foundation for his love for Krautrock and electronic music, which has continued to this day . Other important influences are art rock , progressive rock , new wave , post-punk and Gothic rock from the early 1980s.

At the age of thirteen Uwe Cremer taught himself to play the guitar and regularly jammed with friends on the acoustic guitar . Attending a Pink Floyd concert in 1988 left a deep impression on him. After the performance, he got himself an electric guitar and concentrated on playing solo. In the 90s he played in a band for a short time. He began to write his own pieces and to experiment with sounds, including those from his old Commodore 64 .

In the mid-1990s he moved to Cologne. Without a band in a new city, he got himself a keyboard to create the background for his guitar. He took up his ideas on the computer . Uwe Cremer soon used the computer not only as a tape machine and mixer , but also as an instrument thanks to various software . In the following years he privately produced three albums under the name PSR. Since 2006 he has published his music as Level π. The project name came about by chance when Uwe Cremer and a friend were designing the cover for his first CD . The two of them worked on a surrealistic picture with a wide plane in which Uwe Cremer, following an inspiration, drew the Greek letter π (pronounced pi ).

music

Level π's first CD, Entrance , was released in 2006 on Garden of Delights. Inspired by bands like Pink Floyd , but above all by the sound sculptures of German Krautrock bands , Uwe Cremer set himself the goal of reliving the atmosphere of this time when it was a time of experimentation. Entrance is characterized by long guitar solos paired with electronic music from the Berlin school. Uwe Cremer sees his music "as an homage to the time when Krautrock was still young and Pink Floyd still wrote music".

Uwe Cremer's love for electronic music in the 1970s determined his second album Electronic Sheep , released in 2009 on Dreaming, a sub-label of Musea , the French label for progressive rock. Sequencers and synthesizers dominated the music this time; the guitar only set accents in the background. The pieces were inspired by the music of Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre , but also by experimental bands from the Krautrock era such as Cluster .

On the third album, Dunkelstunde, the guitar came back to the fore. The Babyblauen Seiten write about the album: "Spherical, floating key sounds, sometimes combined with a powerful organ, form the basis of the music, over which the guitar solos in the best David Gilmour manner, but occasionally also with really rocking inserts. You feel like there lifted from the first minute into the wide spheres of space (even if not all pieces are of "spacey" theme), is gently weighed by floating electronic sounds, while the guitars yelp elegiac, or you get rocked by powerful riffs and glaring space Solos catapulted into even higher spheres. "

Uwe Cremer's fourth album This Burning Part of me (EP, released in 2016 by Reptile Music) is strongly influenced by his passion for Gothic Rock. On the EP, Uwe Cremer combines the mood of the British Underground of the early 1980s with elements of Krautrock and Artrock. Bass lines and guitar take the lead and replace the sequencer à la Berliner Schule. On this album Uwe Cremer worked on three tracks with the singer Timothy Smith.

Collaborations with other musicians

In 2009 Uwe Cremer played guitar on the track Aqual Measure on the album of the same name by Dave Pearson alias computer chemist . Together with the drummer Zsolt Galántai, they released the album 2911 in 2013 under the name Audio Cologne Project . Uwe Cremer also worked with the Swedish film musician Thomas Rydell. Two albums have been released under her name so far: Sirius Singularity (2012) and Time Trilogy (2016). The Swedish filmmaker Micke Engström uses excerpts from Time Trilogy in his documentary about the artist Hans Arnold . Jam sessions with the musician Andreas Baaden were released in 2019 on the CD Aufbruch by Baaden / Cremer on MellowJet Records.

Discography

As level π:

  • 2006 - Entrance (album, on Garden of Delights)
  • 2009 - Electronic Sheep (album, on Dreaming, sub-label of Musea)
  • 2012 - Dunkelstunde (album, self-distribution)
  • 2015 - This Burning Part of Me (CD-EP, on Reptile Music)

Collaborations:

  • 2012 - Uwe Cremer / Thomas Rydell: Sirius Singularity (album, on ThomasRydellMusic)
  • 2013 - Audio Cologne Project: 2911. (album with Dave Pearson, on Terrainflight)
  • 2016 - Uwe Cremer / Thomas Rydell: Time Trilogy (album, on ThomasRydellMusic)
  • 2019 - Baaden / Cremer: Aufbruch (album with Andreas Baaden, on MellowJet Records)

Compilations (selection):

  • 2007 - Psychedelic Underground 13 with "Hubbles Dream - Dream without End"
  • 2010 - Record 12 from Schallwende eV with "Kiso-Valley"
  • 2014 - Son of Kraut by Sireena Records with "Black Rabbit"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eclipsed No. 140, March 2012
  2. ↑ Exposé ( http://www.expose.org/index.php/articles/display/cd-area-level-krautrock-2-the-uwe-cremer-interview-6.html )
  3. ↑ Orkus issue 05/06 2016
  4. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger : "Den Krautrock firmly in the heart", 2014 ( https://www.ksta.de/koeln/-klangprobe-level-pi-den-krautrock-fest-im-herzen-2009044 )
  5. ↑ Eclipsed No. 88, Dec./Jan. 2006/07
  6. ↑ Booklet of the CD Entrance
  7. ↑ Booklet of the CD Electronic Sheep
  8. ↑ Baby blue pages ( http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/ )
  9. ↑ Baby blue pages ( http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/ )
  10. ↑ Orkus issue 05/06 2016
  11. ↑ Baby blue pages ( http://www.babyblaue-seiten.de/ )
  12. ↑ https://level-pi.de
personal data
SURNAME Cremer, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf