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Renaissance gentleman persona and equally dolce musical style. He actually possesses a pleasant voice suited to his Represents the harp players first headlong venture into lead vocals. While vocals had been deployed as instruments in vintage ANDREAS VOLLENWEIDER productions, and he did engageĪccomplished singers to impart thematic messages on "Eolian Minstrel" and in multiple languages on "Cosmopoly", "Vox" We must BE the change we whish to SEE! (Mahatma Gandhi) In the home page you can read this sentence:
His website has a German and an English version. Out of the music world, VOLLENWEIDER is a declared pacifist inspired to Gandhi, has released a single for Greenpeace (Pace Verde is the Italian translation of green peace), has won Grammy awards, has received the World music award for a benefit show for the Chernobyl's children and has performed in unusual places like a volcanic cave, on the top of a mountain in the alps and in the Red Square in Moscow. Unfortunately a number of works have been performed only live for special events and haven't seen a proper release. Since Eolian Minstrel he has started a number of collaborations having often famous jazzists as guests players. Kryptos contains songs by Astor Piazzolla in the same period and in a similar way of Al DI MEOLA's Play Piazzolla. Eolian Minstrel includes a country-rock ballad sung by Carly Simon (Harvest), but the album is partially a concept and it's from this album that Vollenweider starts fitting better into the Crossover classification. In the 90s he becomes a bit more radio friendly.
Starting from Dancing With The Lions his production becomes more progressive, in particular symphonic. The world label is likely because of the use of various ethnic instruments but more than a research oriented to esotic folk is mainly a research of sounds. His music has been labeled as world, newage, progressive and jazz, but he has also shown classical influences. His first release is dated 1979 and currently the last official studio album has been released in 2009.Įven if he's known mostly for his new-age period in the early 80s his music has touched many genres, even inside the same album. He started playing various instruments as autodidact until he discovered the harp, an instrument that he innovated by applying pick-ups and other transformations so to make possible the glissando. Born 4 October 1953 (Zurich, Switzerland)Īndreas VOLLENWEIDER, son of an organist, is born in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1953.