a r t i s t : Christian Zehnder
t i t l e : Kraah
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Alpent÷ne
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : 2009-05-23
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBR, 44.1Khz, Joint Stereo
s i z e : 73.10MB
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Christian Zehnder was born in Zurich in 1961 and now lives and works in
Basle. He began his musical career by studying guitar but then turned to
singing, studying with baritone singer Rapael Laback among others, and
graduated with a diploma as a voice instructor. He went on to study
overtone singing with Tokne Nonaka and Alfred WolfsohnÆs body-voice
techniques with Daniel Prieto. He has also spent many years researching the
non-verbal communication of the human voice and the yodel as communication
form. With his idiosyncratic approach to overtone singing, Zehnder belongs
to a new generation of vocalists who are providing new impulses for a form
of singing long dominated by the western New Age movement. In 1996 he
founded the project stimmhorn with wind player Balthasar Streiff, which
went on to gain international recognition and several awards. He works as
an actor-musician in theatre projects, as a singer in various musical
groups and on solo projects in the field of theatre and performance
(including ôGenom Genesisö in Berlin and ôTalk with my turntablesö in
Basle/Berlin/Lausanne). He has composed many pieces for film, television
and radio and taught overtone singing, voice techniques and choral singing
in Switzerland and abroad. Now Zehnder is presenting his solo project
ôkraah,ö with contributions by Georg Breinschmid, Thomas Weiss, and the
casalQuartett.
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1. Ane Dane 3:47
2. Ho Heje Hohu 8:00
3. Wat Ju No 5:17
4. Chummer (Original Version) 4:05
5. Oh Raura 3:03
6. Hotten Totten 3:48
7. Pygmajo 4:32
8. Ade 3:50
9. Stifeli (Moritat) 4:57
10. Chummer 11:17