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  • Genre: Acoustic / Funk / Jazz

    Location Mainz/Heidelberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, De

    Profile Views: 18289

    Last Login: 5/14/2012

    Member Since 3/1/2007

    Record Label unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    I took up playing the guitar at the age of 12. I got lessons in Jazz-Guitar in Heidelberg by Gunter 'Ruit' Kraus who's now mixing up the scene wtih his jazz/avantgarde project 'conjoint' along with Karl Berger. At the age of 16, I founded the Jazz-Trio 'Swinging Safari' and made a little record with this formation including some jazz-standards and own tunes. At the same time I played in several formations also emerging into the blues scene. The 'Swinging Safari Trio' finally became more and more a funk band as other musicians joined the band like my brother Lucien on Fender Rhodes, a percussion-player and some funky horns. This development caused an inevitable change in the band's name and 'safarisounds' were born. With the safaris I recorded the 'FUNKANIMAL' album along with the german True-School-Hiphop-legend Toni L. With the 'FUNKANIMAL' project I toured across Germany and Switzerland in 2007, also playing the two biggest HipHop-festivals in Germany, the 'SPLASH'-Festival 2007 (at the time the biggest Hiphop/Reggae Festival in Europe with main artists like Snoop Dogg and The Roots), and the 'MTV HipHopOpen' 2009 (main artists: Method Man & Redman, Peter Fox, Jan Delay). Beside this project I explore the field of Jazz (Quartet/Trio) and all other kind of music I feel good playing it, like the singer/songwriter project with my former classmate Anne (see below!). I'm also playing with the 'Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz' (Schellack-Orchester, www.schellack-orchester.de). At the moment I'm studying jazzguitar with Norbert Scholly at the conservatory of Mainz (Mayence)/Germany.

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Biography

I took up playing the guitar at the age of 12. I got lessons in Jazz-Guitar in Heidelberg by Gunter 'Ruit' Kraus who's now mixing up the scene wtih his jazz/avantgarde project 'conjoint' along with Karl Berger. At the age of 16, I founded the Jazz-Trio 'Swinging Safari' and made a little record with this formation including some jazz-standards and own tunes. At the same time I played in several formations also emerging into the blues scene. The 'Swinging Safari Trio' finally became more and more a funk band as other musicians joined the band like my brother Lucien on Fender Rhodes, a percussion-player and some funky horns. This development caused an inevitable change in the band's name and 'safarisounds' were born. With the safaris I recorded the 'FUNKANIMAL' album along with the german True-School-Hiphop-legend Toni L. With the 'FUNKANIMAL' project I toured across Germany and Switzerland in 2007, also playing the two biggest HipHop-festivals in Germany, the 'SPLASH'-Festival 2007 (at the time the biggest Hiphop/Reggae Festival in Europe with main artists like Snoop Dogg and The Roots), and the 'MTV HipHopOpen' 2009 (main artists: Method Man & Redman, Peter Fox, Jan Delay). Beside this project I explore the field of Jazz (Quartet/Trio) and all other kind of music I feel good playing it, like the singer/songwriter project with my former classmate Anne (see below!). I also played from 2006 to 2010 with the 'Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz' (Schellack-Orchester). At the moment I'm studying jazzguitar with Norbert Scholly (Guitar/Major) and Jean-Yves Jung (Piano/Minor) as well as Axel Schlosser, Steffen Weber, Vitold Rek, Ralf Cetto, Denis Gäbel and Rainer Böhm (Ensemble Coaching) among others at the conservatory of Mainz (Mayence)/Germany.

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  • Lukas Roos

    sehr geil relaxte beatrice version!

    1 year ago
  • Rosemary Nuno

    Enjoying your music.

    1 year ago
  • Modern Spheres

    danke fürs freunde sein..grüße aus dem süden, rené

    2 years ago
  • Robert Schulze

    Theaterpremiere: ENDSTATION, 7.12.2009 um 20 Uhr in der VILLA ELISABETH, Invalidenstr. 3, 10115 Berlin

    www.sophien.de




    2 years ago
  • DEMI EVANS

    Thanks David for the friendship!!!!! Blessed weekend

    2 years ago
  • René Fleck

    endlich nun auch hier freunde..sonnige grüße aus der stadt der sieben hügel ;)

    2 years ago
  • DJ DISTER


    hi.. ich bin in der aktuellen JUICE im dj feature.
    Wenns dich interessiert KLICK AUFS BILD um das interview zu lesen.

    2 years ago
  • Kiernan McMullan

    thanks for the request man

    2 years ago
  • Missy Andersen

    Hey David, I really enjoyed listening to your tunes, beautiful playing.


    Best of luck to you

    2 years ago
  • Robert Schulze

    Bis zum 6. Mai läuft das Online Voting beim Guitar Fight Club 2009.

    Hört rein und gebt Eure Stimme ab:

    http://www.guitarfightclub.de/index.php?id=49&id2=1

    Kategorie: Time of Anovah

    Beste Grüße,
    Robert

    3 years ago
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Influences

First of all inspiring people around me, and then, of course, some of the greats like Wes Montgomery, Jesse Van Ruller, Brad Mehldau, Chet Baker, Adam Rogers, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Ralph Towner, Norbert Scholly, Axel Schlosser, Ferenc Snetberger, Aaron Goldberg, Brian Blade, Borjan Z, Bill Stewart, John Coltrane, Miles, Larry Grenadier, Pat Metheny, George Benson, Jim Hall, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ack Van Rooyen, Robben Ford, Kalle Kalima, Pierre Bensusan, Erykah Badu, Roy Hargrove, Glenn Gould, Sylvain Luc, Michel Petrucciani, Nick Drake, Common, Q-Tip, The Roots, James Brown, George Clinton, Michael Jackson/Jackson 5, The Time, The Police, Prince, D'Angelo, Dyke & The Blazers, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Singer/Songwriter Music... At the moment I'm listening to: - Roy Hargrove 'Earfood' - Common 'Like Water For Chocolate' - Adam Rogers 'Time And The Infinite' - Gilad Hekselman - Various - Brian Blade Fellowship - Robben Ford - Various

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