Ekkehard Ehlers
Ekkehard Ehlers | |
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Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Frankfurt, Germany |
Genres | Electronic music |
Labels | Staubgold |
Ekkehard Ehlers (born 1974) is an artist working in the field of electronic music. In addition to his solo career, he has recorded under the monikers Auch, Betrieb and Ferdinand Fehlers and as a member of the duo Autopoesies and his band März. A BBC reviewer wrote of Ehlers music: Ehlers' music toys with your perceptions a little, opening up a space to think[1]
Biography
Ehlers was born in
In 2001, Ehlers began recording a series of singles to serve as tributes to some of his aesthetic heroes. These singles, which included "Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Cornelius Cardew" and "Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes" were ultimately gathered together on the 2002 album Plays. This release brought Ehlers fame outside of experimental electronic music circles. He followed it with the far more abstract Politik Braucht Keinen Feind in 2003, and then with A Life Without Fear, which incorporated blues in a typically oblique way, in 2006.
Since 2000 he started working on ballet scores for the choreographers William Forsythe and later Christoph Winkler and for Ulrich Rasche. Ehlers has curated Music festivals such as "under construction", "Audio Poverty" and "Lux Aeterna" and the
He remixed the Red Hot Chili Peppers' single "Californication" and collaborated with the band on a couple of their live sets. Two live recordings have been made called Tuesday Night in Berlin and Thursday Night in Berlin. The remixed Californication and the 14 minute improvisation jam Tuesday Night in Berlin can be found on the second version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Fortune Faded single. The nearly 30 minute Thursday Night In Berlin has not been released officially although a bootleg has recently leaked onto the Internet.
Selected discography
- Betrieb — CD, Mille Plateaux, 2000
- März — CD, 2001 (Ehlers, Kunze) 2002-2004
- Plays — CD, Staubgold, 2002
- Music For William Forsythe — CD, Whatness, 2003 (Ehlers, Sebastian Meissner, Thom Willems)
- Politik Braucht Keinen Feind — CD, Staubgold, 2003
- Childish Music — CD, Staubgold, 2005 (compilation)
- A Life Without Fear — CD, Staubgold, 2006
- Ballads — CD, Staubgold, 2009 (with Paul Wirkus)
- Adikia — CD, Staubgold, 2012
References
- ^ Peter Marsh (2003). "BBC Experimental review". BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
External links
- "Ekkehard Ehlers profile". allmusic.com.