Andreas Stahel

The music of Andreas Stahel oscillates between repetitive trance and multicoloured tapestries of sound.
The debut CD of the classically-trained flautist Andreas Stahel is at once compact and fascinatingly multi-layered, a work which defies categorisation.
Inspired by minimal music and evidently also by folkloric music, Stahel (born 1967) has found a musical language which draws its drive from repetitive patterns and captivates through multicoloured tonality: sometimes it's difficult to believe that this sound-cosmos emanates from a single person. Stahel... doesn't resort to electronic tricks, but has accumulated a number of special techniques by trial and error.
These include rhythmical circular breathing, multiple overblows, the intentional use of key noise and the combination of singing with flute playing. Overtone singing, used widely in Buddhism, and the scenic performance elements lend Stahel's performance a ritual, ceremonial element. He himself is also interested in the meditative influence of music... though Stahel doesn't seem esoteric either on- or offstage, rather an artist with a clear sense of direction, driven by curiousity and sincerity.

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• minimal
• music
• flute
• Andreas
• Stahel
• tonus-music
• don
• li

[kot102102]

super brzmienie!

[fearsomegladiator]

Fantastic!

[ninaflute]

I agree it has a ritualistic quality. Hypno-minimalism!

[elf1228]

ABSELUBLY AMAZIN !!!!

[SeriousFluteMan]

Very very intersting what you do and very original.

I like it very much!!

[mistermarcus1979]

very very cool,

and depth!

i love the percussive bit at the end and

the pygmyesque! ancient sounds!...