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AHIMSA

Demo Tracks:

Ahimsa Part 1.MP3

Chennai.MP3

Octopus.MP3

Radhaberi.MP3

We Are Here.MP3


If you want to listen the complete songs, please contact:

Armin Metz & Matthias Mueller, fon ++49(0)9405-500 747 or send an email to zuu@urbroetchen.de

AHIMSA* Bandinfo


Classical south-indian music as well as western classical and furious Jazz compositions played with such a virtuosity that it reminds us of the excellency created by the infamous group „Shakti„. The five renowned musicians from India and Germany first came together on 19. October 1999 during a tour from N.S. Radhakrishna. This particular day as was found out later is the Sareswati Puja day in Hinduism, the best time to begin a new musical project. From the start onwards there was a extraordinary musical and personal understanding for each other.

Creativity, Spontanity and Innovation were the carrying elements for this newstyle encounter. The complex rhythm-structures and raga-improvisations from the south-indian music are combining with sounds with draw their roots from western classical and jazz.

* Ahimsa means passive resistance (leaning towards the Philosophie from Mahatma Ghandi).

CD Release in 2000: „Seven Steps to Liberty - Step One"

Neyveli S. Radhakrishna - Violin

· Violin since he was 8 years old
· took lessons from the Violin-maestro Dr. M. Chandrasekaran
· he played with the Bansuri-master Dr. Ramani
· Graduated at the Annamalai University, India
· winner of the Krishna Gana Shabha-Price in South-india, and others
· Since 1994 Experience in Fusion-bands (i.e. Mosaic Band) in South-afrika (Jazz Music Festival), Europe and Asia
· frequent appearances on Indian radio and television

Matthias Müller - Guitar

1984-87 School for Music Sulzbach-Rosenberg
classical Guitar, Ensemble- and choir-leader
1988-90 Munich Guitar Institute (MGI), Jazz and Pop
1990-92 Groove School of Music, Los Angeles, USA studies in Jazz and Fusion with Jeff Richman, Joe Daversa and Wayne Johnson composition / arranging with Dick Grove and graduated from these three schools
1994/95 Studies in carnatical Music with the Veena-master Rajeswari Padmanabhan
course at the Musicschool Hamburg with Peter O´Mara, Peter Weihe and Detlef Beier

· many concerts in classical guitar-trios, -duos, solo concerts and with Choir´s
· Studio-sessions and -recordings in USA and Europe
· composer and musical director from „Nightshift Radio Mystery„ and the Radio-play „The Broken Heart„
· Guitar-teacher at the Music-school Lippstadt
· Studiomusician for the Studio Lecker, Regensburg

R. Yogaraja - Percussion: Mrudangam, Tabla, Ganjira, Morsing

· classical apprentiship with his father Sri. A.s. Ramanathan
· 1a-results in carnatical Music at the Annamalai University
· since 1991 many tours through Europe with Dr. L. Subramaniam, who alongside L. Shankar is regarded as one of the best violin-players from india
· also appears frequently on indian Radio- and TV-Stations and is appreciated as an artist of high quality
· several experiences with World-Music and Jazz

Armin Metz - 6 - string frettless/fretted Bass

1983-1990 piano lessons in classic and Jazz
1990 discovered the E-Bass as main-instrument
1996 Music school Berlin: E-Bass, Popular-music, piano lessons, classical indian music

· concerts with international Worldmusic-, Jazz- and Pop-bands
· recordings with Hossam Shaker & Rahala, Christiane Högl, Yogeshwara, Albrecht Riermeier, Balua, Broken Consort Trio

A.S. Shankar - Ghatam

· stems from a musical family, lessons from T.V. Vasan
· played with legendary Musicians like T.N Seshagopalan, Dr. N. Ramani, Bombay Jayashree, Sri Umayalpuram Sivaraman
· Tours in Asia and America

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