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& zen | | FISHMOON -
"Two Moon Music" :
Axel
Manrico
Heilhecker's neuestes " Ohne Worte-Album" ist seit April
erhältlich. Performance
Künstler Bently Spangs,
Native Indian aus Montana (Sioux) spricht dennoch
6 Worte.
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Bestellen bei : Herzbergverlag online
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| Axel Manrico Heilhecker :
"Music for Six-String and Tape-Echo"
In Kürze erhältlich, hier mit 2 Vorab-Videos zu
sehen. © Phonokultur a.m.h.
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CINDERELLAS
OF SANTA FE:
"Cinderellas 0f Santa Fe“
gewann letztes Jahr auf
dem
Iowa
Independant Filmfestival
den IIFF Award als “bester
Dokumentar-Film".
Vanessa
Vassar, Regisseurin
und Axel's Muse im
Duo Phonoroid,
arbeitete
mit
Axel Manrico Heilhecker
als Co-produzent
zusammen,
der auch den Soundtrack mit
Phonoroid Songs und
Instrumentals
erstellte.
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SUNYA
BEAT :
Nachdemdie
Band diverse Gigs im EM-Feld geliefert hat, ist die Rhythmusgruppe der
Band, Grosskopf und Baltes zurzeit mit Manuell Göttsching auf
Japan-Tour. Harald Grosskopf und Axel Heilhecker arbeiten an einem
Freistil "Jazz-Album".
das aktuelle Live-Album der Band :
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Live CD bestellen bei :
Herzbergverlag online
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FLASHBRIDGEFLASH
zusammen
mit
Stefan Schneider
(RococoRot),führte Axel Heilhecker Ende Februar eine Mitternachtsmusik
zur Lichtinstallation Mischa
Kuball's an der
Passarelle - Brücke
in Luxembourg
auf.
veranstaltet vom Casino
Luxembourg.
www.casino-luxembourg.lu
Ein paar Soundsamples...just guitar:
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HARALD
SCHMIDT
muss noch weiter TV leisten, während
Axel
und seine Band-Kollegen sich zum Ende der eigentlichen "Schmidt"-
Show , Oktober letzten Jahres, Fernseh-befreit haben, um nach 10 Jahren Showtime wieder mehr Raum für neue und alte musikalische Aktivitäten zu gewinnen.
Listen "zur Erinnerung"
to “Spoonful“ -"Long"
version:
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GRAND
GTRs
Axel schreibt eine
Kolumne
"Brettgeflüster"
im Gitarren -
Magazin “GRAND
GTRs“.
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| fishmoon
- music by
axel manrico heilhecker
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| Hören : |
| | | | belle de
jour |  | | one man
tango | | | for your
pleasure | | | fishmoon
rising | | | fishmoon | | | last picture | | | been there,
done this | | | american
zonata | | | is isn't | |
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| | Musiker : | | | | | Harald
Grosskopf
Bertil Mark
Helmut Zerlett
Steve
Baltes
Axel Manrico Heilhecker |
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| | | | 1994
,the idea came up, to record a instrumental album, which should be
routed more to atmospheres, than to structural aspects in music.To
accomplish this Heilhecker collected relics of his guitar-laboratories
during his work as producer for Phonoroid,
Sunya
Beat, Thomas
Kagermann, Samson
Gassama,or Andreas
Ludwig.
This was done between 1995 and
1998. As a result this album established a visual sound, mainly leaded
by Heilhecker's guitar, but far away from common string-acrobatics.
Most different musical styles and guitar-specific playing-technics had
been dismantled and brought together in new aspects. All
instruments were played mainly by himself this time.
"Listening to my
album today, i find all influences of my collaboratories in
the
90's very clearly comin' upfront.
For example my work with the,
meanwhile late, indian sitarplayer and music prof. from Benares T.N.
Nagar .
Same as Ravi Shankar,a
student of Villayat
Khan,
he was a
great architekt and storyteller on his instrument.
No picture - no sound ,this formula always has been
putting a spell on me.
Steve
Baltes and Harald Grosskopf, my longtime fellows since those days
,represent the
musical caesura of the late 90's, the moveover from
linear recording to virtual tracking.
Fishmoon ,moon in
pisces
,is analog to a situation of sensitive processes and expressions,
or a time
, when one is not able to lock up from in- and external sensations - a
state of unlimitation.
What started as a collection will
be continued as a conceptional edition and released Nov - 06." |
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| DPRP-
CD Reviews - 2001 Volume 33
Axel Manrico Heilhecker
- Fishmoon
Country of
Origin: Germany
Format:
CD
Record Label: Think Progressive
Catalogue #: -
Year of Release: 2001
Time: 46:51
Tracklist:
elle De Jour (4.45), One Man Tango (4.20), For Your Pleasure (4.37),
Fishmoon
Rising (2.06), Fishmoon (8.32), Last Picture
(4.59), American Zonata (6.45), Been There
Done This (4.58),
Is, Isn't (5.49)
Guitarist Heilhecker worked on projects
like Holo Syndrome, Sunya Beat, Phonoroid and
collaborations
with musicians of Ash Ra Tempel. Fishmoon is his first solo album,
although
on a few tracks he gets a helping hand from Steve
Baltes (Sunya Beat, Ashra),
producer/composer Helmut Zerlett
and Bertil Mark. Unfortunately I am not familiar with
Heilhecker's
previous work, so I can't compare his solo album to the other stuff on
his
resume.
Fishmoon is a fully instrumental
album, centered around Axel's guitar play, which is
accompanied
by bass, keyboards and percussion. Many of the rhythms have a rather
ethnic
and native feel to it, resulting in an atmosphere that can easily be
compared to some
of Peter Gabriel's world music influenced
work. As a matter of fact, tracks like Belle Du Jour
could
easily have been instrumental versions of tracks by Gabriel.
The
twangy slide guitar on some of the tracks reminds me of Eric Clapton's
work on Roger
Water's Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking, while
at other times the music brings Clapton's
soundtrack for The
Edge of Darkness to mind. Another guitarist that comes to mind when
listening
to the Fishmoon album is Mark Knopfler, probably because of the
similarity in feel
and sound compared to songs like Dire
Strait's Ride Across The River in tracks like One
Man Tango.
Still, the guitarist of which I'm reminded most is one of my all-time
favourites
Snowy White since Heilhecker's playing has that
same bluesy feel to it (e.g. in Fishmoon
Rising/Fishmoon,
reminding me of the instrumentals from Snowy's early albums, or in Is,
Isn't).
Probably the weirdest track on the album is Been There Done
That, which doesn't only
feature sound samples from the
'Moby Dick' and 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre' movies, but
a
reworked version of the melody from Ghostriders in the Sky as well (you
know, that
'yippy-ah-yeeeeee ! yippy-ah-yoooooo' song). A
heavy dance-like sequencer and
percussion loop accompanies
this remarkable mixture. Elsewhere on the album Heilhecker
also
uses other samples.
Another interesting track is Last
Picture which mixes western and eastern influences.
American
Zonata, which was cowritten with Baltes, on the other hand mixes modern
dance
rhythms with Heilhecker's steal guitar, creating a
strange blend.
Overall I found the album quite enjoyable.
Most of the time the music is atmospheric and
soothing and,
with the exception of Been There Done This, which falls a bit out of
place
with the rest of the album, can both be played full
volume or as relaxing background music.
For those of you who
like bluesy instrumental guitar work and world music influences this
might
be an album to check out !
The booklet is a (rather ugly)
simple 4-pager with tracklist and credits. The album will be
officially
released on the 1st of September.
Conclusion: 7+ out of 10.
Ed
Sander
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