Embryo's Reise - mp3 - 320

Embryo

Band
Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10.
Active from: 1969
Origin: Munich, Germany

History

In 1969 the band was founded by multi instrumentalist Christian Burchard (drums, vibraphone, santur, keyboard) and Edgar Hoffmann (saxophone, flutes). To date more than 400 musicians have played with the collective, some, such as Charlie Mariano, Trilok Gurtu, Ramesh Shotham, Marty Cook, Yuri Parfenov, Allan Praskin, X.Nie, Nick McCarthy, Monty Waters and Mal Waldron, have played on multiple occasions. Longtime members are Edgar Hoffmann (sax,violin), Dieter Serfas (drums), Roman Bunka (guitar, oud), Uve Müllrich (bass), Michael Wehmeyer (keyboard), Chris Karrer (guitar, oud, violin, sax), Lothar Stahl (marimba, drums), and Jens Polheide (bass, flute).
With Ton Steine Scherben a. o. founder of the first German independent label Schneeball in 1976.
In 1979 the band started a nine-month tour to India by bus, which was documented by the movie "Vagabunden Karawane".[3] Embryo developed from jazzy Krautrock to a world music band, which is able to merge different styles and trends. Many of their albums originated during collective journeys on 4 continents. The band played many festivals around the globe: in India (Mumbai Jazz 1979), England (Reading 1973), Nigeria (Port Harcourt Jazz 1987), Japan (Wakayama 1991) to name a few. In July 2008, Embryo was awarded the German World Music Award RUTH 2008 at the TFF.Rudolstadt Festival.

Embryo's Reise

Tracklist

1 Strasse Nach Asien - Road To Asia
2 Lost Scooters - Verlorene Scooters
3 Anar Anar - Granatapfel
4 Es Ist Wie's Ist - It's That Way
5 Kurdistan
6 Far East - Ferner Osten
7 Chan Delawar Khan - Schmetterlinge
8 Farid
9 Cello, Cello - Schnell, Schnell
10 Rog De Quadamuna Achna
11 Hymalaya Radio