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Al Kanz has the music-gene - coupled with a wide range of experience.
His music is avant-garde and smells of freedom. Free from the commercial one-dimensional, from the traditional black and white of the hypnotic mass-consumption. His music smells of experiencing community and space for warmth and exudes individuality.
His instrumental style swirled floating sensual and joyous melodies to the beat and offbeat for a delicious flow of sounds - the beguiling charm full of sound together in the tone-dream.
While listening to it one changes to a restless nomad in the pouring morph of the formants in the resonant space of the envelopes with their prospects.
Musical styles and tunes light up and burn down surprisingly soon in the crucible of the cosmic ocean of rhythm-harmonics.
This music has no social tuned mission, is no cry out of depression and no story out of the missing. It is the response out of an uprising communication with astral spheres and the wholeness of all beings.
Al Kanz is a profound self-taught and does everything itself: to the finished CD, to the global download file, composing, writing, arranging, mixing, and mastering, production, design, painting, photography and publishing.
1947
Al Kanz was born on 06.25.1947 in Kassel/Hessen FRG. He comes from a family with musical traditions and before he was born were quite a few pounds in his big musical scales.
Great-grandfather was a conductor in Indonesia, grandfather was a piano builder in Kassel and the father was a musician and the manager of the family band 'The saints' in Kassel. During her youth his mother had sung singing with an opera singer from Kassel and played guitar in the band.
Al Kanz spent countless hours of his childhood in the strong smelling piano workshop of his grandfather and learnt of his perfect pitch.
1958
Al Kanz started as self-taught 11-year-old to learn clarinet, because his father one day with a cart full of musical instruments arrived home. Over time he learned saxophone, E.-guitar, E.- bass, Drums, Percussion, playing keyboards and studied saxophone and singing lessons.
After half a year playing clarinet he made its first public appearances in sports clubs. After two years, Al was the lead singer and tenor saxophonist of a 6-man band with the orchestration of drums, bass, organ and accordion, rhythm guitar, saxophone, lead guitar vocals and backing vocals of all the band members.
1959-1969
The popular and famous family band in Northern Hessen and Kassel 'The saints' were created. The band's name came from a gospel song 'Just when the saints-go marching in'. Father, mother, son and three to four other musicians was the most common orchestration. His father managed the band and played double bass, trumpet and harmonica, his mother played until the final guitar and sung back vocals. Al was the lead singer and saxophonist / bass player and bandleader. There followed 10 years semi-professional performances (every Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun night) Thursday evening was a practice session, first in the family kitchen and later in the machine room of the citizen-house in the northern city of Kassel.
It was a huge repertoire of well over a thousand of music tracks re-enactment of the 1960/70 Years and he is closely connected to rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, boogie, rock'n'roll, beat, funk.
The musical demands on the band, however, went far beyond that. To initiations or urban facilities were classical requires, as a touring band of a carnival club marching music, for dance school fixtures standart dance music, beat band battles, club events of all stripes, American GI clubs, tea dances, house of the youth clubs, homes for the handicapped, State theatre, town halls, village pubs, New Year's Eve balls and outdoor concerts in beer gardens and swimming pools.
Came about in the 1970, the discos music came and band music went. 'The saint's' a cult band in Northern Hessen and Kassel stopped.
1970
Al went for seven years, according to W.-Berlin. In Berlin was an exchange with musicians from the Paul-Linke-Ufer and Berlin singer-songwriters of the 80's. There has been several unsuccessful attempts to band-foundation started and two years playing bass in a university jazz band.
Otherwise, Al was one with his Rickenbacker bass Mod 4003 and an Acoustic amplifier with 400 watts and a transducer box with two 15 inch speakers, flanger, envelop-follower and a Revox A800 tape machine.
1979
Al went back to Kassel. To years later, together with Matthias Brendel, they started the structure of a 8-track tape recording studio with audio synthesizers such as Sequ.-Circuits Prophet-5, Oberheim OB8, DMX and various Roland drum machines, sax and flute and vocals for several unreleased productions and the production of a 'New German Wave' project, the LP 'Aloa'.
1982
Mastering and enhancement in a Frankfurt scene music studio and release their debut LP 'Aloa' on an Offenbach publisher Rockport Records.
Then came the transition to digital music production, his first Vintage PPG Wave 2.2 Computer fascinated him.
1983
Moved to Hamburg. Together with Matthias Brendel 'Sound Company' was founded, a GEMA listed media publishing. There followed several productive years as composer/producer for radio, TV-movie and advertising music, jingles and songs and as an sound supplier for other artists. Due to the tight studio work which was concentrated to Al, and thus it became a nuisance, he broke away from the publishing operation.
1986
Back to Kassel. The self-interest was to develop as an artist and as a musician. He created new songs of the Genre New Age Rock.
1988
MC release and self-sales of an instrumental and a vocal version of 'Pictures of eternal eight'. Then the extension of the PPG Waveterm Workstation to 24 tracks and a 24/8/2/2 channel mixer, several effects devices and a Teac Tascam 8-track DBX tape machine and a Revox 2-track master tape machine.
1989
Moved to Munich to act in a more effectively productive environment and to accommodate new influences. Composing, mixing and mastering of his first CD 'Do the Fun'. Released 1990 under his own label in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan.
1992
Back to Kassel. Detachment from the GEMA and starting the search for musical and economic independent ways.
1999
By searching for a better sound and the general rapid development of computers he detaches from the PPG-Workstation and it began the transition of making music on PC-based software.
2003
Production of the CD Album 'Not for sale'
2004
Production of the CD Album 'Aasgard'
2005
Production of the CD Album 'Strömung'
2006
Production of the CD Album 'Outdoor'
2007
Production of the CD Album 'Dubanga'
These 5 CD Albums between 2003 and 2007 are not released or distributed. The workout was a test modus.
2009
Suddenly came the desire to compose again more aggressively to the publications. For this conversion was necessary a better and more powerful PC, new and better composition software and a pool of fantastic synthesizers and sound tools. After all the installing work of the new equipment his enthusiasm exploded. There starts a wondrous flow of new instrumental music pieces, was of better quality. Every year he now originated several new CD packages.
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All following Titels are released as digital music files by many internet and mobile e-shops worldwide, as CD Album Packages and as single Titels.
2010
Produced and Released CD Album Titles:
'Perplexmas'
'Alter Falter'
'Astralion'
2011
Produced and Released CD Album Titles:
'Ouha nio'
'Citx stomped'
'Genuin'
The first single title ‘Monoatomic’ of the CD Album ‘Genuin’ is promoted by an artistvideo. See link
2012
Produced and Released CD Album Titles:
'Unifikation'
‘Ektoronic’
2013
Produced and Released CD Album Titles:
‘Xosu’
‘Mondovis’
2014
Produced and Released CD Album Titles:
‘Onopomum’
A short video to a single title ‘Moringa’ Check it:
A short video to a single title ‘La aL’ Check it:
‘Al Go Rhythm’
Second Release of the Neue Deutsche Welle LP ‘ALOA’ by Medical Records, Seattle, USA
Jan222014
Artist: Aloa
Title: Aloa
Format: 12"
Label: Medical Records
Rated:
Originally issued in 1982 the self titled album by Aloa has been a particular one which, at that time, the press and radio stations didn't appreciate fully. Formed by Al Kanz and Matthias Brendel, two guys born in Kassel, Germany, Aloa released only that album and the fourteen songs contained on that vinyl issued by Offers Musik Produktion 'are the only stuff left to testimony their innovative style. Using Roland 606 and 808 drum machines plus a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesizer, they composed tracks that were in balance from krautrock and robotic electronic music. Some tracks like the opening "Weisser Wal", "Deutsche Begegnung" and "Tramfrau" recall the evolution DAF did from their early experimental phase of "Produkt Der Deutsch-Amerikanischen Freundschaft '" to the first core of their sound already present in "Die Kleinen Und Die Bosen". Both the bands were part of the Neue Deutsche Welle movement but Aloa were more focused on their personal version of synthpop where melodies, dark atmospheres and extravagant vocals were mixed just to form a fresh and dadaist paint. "Babane Zitrone" is a great dark pop song with catchy melodies, while the following "Madchen Von Gegenuber" sounds just crazy, like a party held at a clowns conference. Also the following song "Du Machst Es Mir Schwer" is a weird one, as it sounds like a folk song sung by a drunk who fell in love with a certain girl called Martina. This album is a multifaceted one which contains many ideas and it will take time to be fully appreciated but compared to thirty years ago, you'll be able to catch at a early listening its real value. This reissue was a must due and it has been restored and mastered from the original master tapes by Klearlight Studios. Presented on high-quality 180gram heavyweight green vinyl. Features bonus LP insert with liner notes by Dave Segal. Check it here:
http://medicalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aloa-mr-029
An extrordinary video production. A cartoon on the german word ‘gehts’. Whats meaning is something
around: whats it all about, does it go, that will do. And to transfer the german sounding to american
language the Titel: ‘Gates’ fits closely. Check it:
2015
Will be continued.
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