Artist: Gunter Schickert
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Somnambul
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Uberfallig
Year:
Tracks: 3
Samtvogel
Year:
Tracks: 3
Though his distinguish barely registers among to the highest degree of the Krautrock clerisy, Schickert was both prolific in the back scenes as well as organism an important creative person. Along with the better-known Achim Reichel, Schickert pioneered the echo guitar, where the repeated guitar tones make unequalled multi-layered textures that remove the musical instrument rather beyond the ordinary.
Schickert was combat-ready through much of the mid-sixties in the Berlin free-jazz painting, though it wasn't until 1974 that his low base album, Samtvogel came taboo, self-released by Schickert in a low clutch. The record album was alone enough that it was promptly snatched up by the fabled Brain label, and they reissued the record the pursual twelvemonth. Samtvogel is quite similar to Manuel Gottsching's like solo-guitar album Inventions for Electric car Guitar, where guitar sounds ar layered and superimposed on round crest of to each one other to create new hypnotic textures.
In 1973 Schickert founded the trio Gam, with guitar player Axel Struck and percussionist Michael Aleska, and with Schickert on guitar, vocals and trumpet this group created a unequaled kind of freaked-out space sway. Gam recorded close to cram roger Samuel Huntington Roger Huntington Sessions in 1976, which were in the end released on cassette in 1986 coroneted Gam 1976, and an unreleased record album called Eiszeit in 1978.
At this time Schickert was besides creating medicine for a theatre company, and yet playacting live on stage in around of the productions. He likewise served as a roadie for electronic euphony pioneer Klaus Schulze, and sometimes played live with Schulze as well. Schickert's moment solo album, Uberfallig, came out in 1979 on Sky Records, this clip with Jacques Charles Heuer on drums to augment Schickert's echo guitar textures.
In the 1880s Schickert's ferment in dramaturgy production continued, and he likewise took region in a duet of bands, No Battery-acid Orchestra and Ziguri Self Zoological garden. A third gear album under his own name, this one a totally solo effort with him on guitar, tapes, vocals, percussion, and trumpet, Kinder der Wildnes, from 1983 only came out on cassette, though it showed that Schickert was expanding into a wider kitchen stove of musical theater styles. Another collection, Somnabal, was released in 1995 on CD with music from passim the decennary and a one-half in front that. Though his recordings ar few and hard to fulminate go through, particularly the debut Samtvogel, Schickert is an groundbreaking ceremony music maker wHO deserves more notice.
