Stephan Micus

Stephan Micus ( Stuttgart , January 19 1953 ) is one of Germany -derived multi-instrumentalist .

Micus is from an early age interested in exotic places. At sixteen he already taking a trip to the hitherto sober and enchanting Morocco ; he entered a completely different world. A few years later he found in India and becomes influenced by Ravi Shankar . To understand Indian music he stays there for a long time and learns the sitar playing. The cake is not yet, because Micus draws to Japan, where he also is influenced by the people and music and inspired.

He prefers to work alone and then all kinds of plays (for us) exotic instruments, which are recorded layer after layer. Even if his vocal music needs, he usually allows them yourself, by including in the layer by layer.The genre he plays is to share the best in world music, as though it belongs in there, because he is not confined to a single area. His music is ideal for meditation and has some similarity to Zen -music. A basic music he has not; he is not powerful notation and let everything through improvisation and try to come to the surface.

For further distinguished from other musicians, he often sings in his own design language. His music albums all breathe the same atmosphere, but the instrumentation is different. He considers himself a sort ofNoah's Ark for elsewhere indigenous music which seems lost through the influence of the West to go. He goes by the use of locally against the standardization of instruments in musical instruments. ==[Discography  edit ] == All of the following albums released by ECM Records, except where indicated:

He is one of the few ECM artists who produces his albums.
 * Archaic concerts (1976) (non-ECM)
 * Implosions (1977)
 * Till the End of Time (1978)
 * Behind eleven deserts (1978) (non-ECM, but Verabra )
 * Koan (1981)
 * Wings Over Water (1982)
 * Listen to the Rain (1983)
 * East of the night (1985)
 * Ocean (1986)
 * Twilight fields (1988)
 * The music of stones (1989)
 * Darkness and Light (1990)
 * To the evening child (1992)
 * Athos (1994)
 * The garden of mirrors (1997)
 * Desert poems (2001)
 * Towards the Wind (2002)
 * Life (2004)
 * On the wing (2006)
 * Snow (2008)
 * Bold as light (2010)
 * Panagia (2013)