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  • Genre: Blues / Indie / Pop

    Location Dallas, Un

    Profile Views: 196339

    Last Login: 11/23/2012

    Member Since 4/22/2005

    Website hansyork.com

    Record Label Coyo Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Hans York, Performing Musical Artist Over the past three years Hans has navigated non-stop across the U.S. on a continuous tour of clubs and concerts. Captivating audiences with his confiding voice and easy charm, he has made lifelong friends while witnessing the vast territories of the country that has become his adopted home. This love affair with America is long-standing. German-born Hans says that the tepid local pop music of his youth was no match for the sensational rock of the UK and the states. Although he didn't yet speak the language, he would improvise lyrics, knowing that his audiences didn't understand them. Growing up near Ramstein Air Force base, headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe, Hans left home at 18 and began playing and living with American musicians. "After a short period I was dreaming in English," he says. While he subsequently performed everything from theater to classical music as a bass player, it was as the co-founder of the German World Music cult band Moka Efti that Hans made his mark as an artist with three CDs. But he knew there was a wider world panorama, and he explored it while living for six for months in Brazil. Hans returned home to Germany and recorded his solo debut, Hazzazar and a well-received follow-up, Sau Gut, but his creativity demanded movement and motion. And so with only a smattering of contacts, he moved to the United States. His first American release, Inside Out, established him as a masterful storyteller, multi-instrumentalist and a producer with a deep musical palette. As one writer said, it introduced an artist who was "… delicate, expressive and highly evocative." His next release, Young Amelia, was a natural progression as Hans was lauded for his "sweet, comfy tenor and expressive acoustic guitar work that place him in the upper echelon of music makers." With Heard or Herded?, Hans has settled down from the road in Dallas, Texas. Energized by the camaraderie of a band, he anticipates enlisting a strong group of players to animate his songs. The sound of Hans York is the sound of a man at peace with himself, and remarkably interested in those around him. "There's movement in the heavens where the winds have taken shape Swirling dust and devils, dragons that awake And they rage through crowded streets, leave nothing behind Only the weak, the opened hearted kind" from "Walk This Way" "The heart space is what's important," he concludes. "The more that an artist can find that in himself, the better then that the art transcends and people will find strength in listening."

  • Members

    Hans York, whenever possible, Ralf Goeldner, percussion, Myra Joy, cello, Eva Scow, mandolin/violin, Dusty Brough, nylon string guitar, Jon Hamar, upright bass, Chris Stromquist, drums, percussion

  • Influences

    Oh my --- Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Tim Buckley, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles, Milton Nascimento, Nick Drake, Feist, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Pat Metheney, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Chopin, Bach, Zero 7, Mc Solar, Lenine, Ivan Lins, Janis Ian, Kate Wolf, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Bob Schneider, Tori Amos, Ani Di Franco, Teitur, Radiohead, Kraftwerk, Tom Harrell, Eminem, Tupac, Incubus, Väsen, Bazar Bla, Asita Hamidi, Take 5, Bulgarian Rhythms, Indian Music, Muddy Waters, Sting, Doors, Songs, John Coltrane .... Not to forget Neil Young, Paul Simon, Ricky Lee Jones, Earth Wind & Fire, Chicago, Tower of Power, Cameo, Al Jarreau, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Propellerhead, Kings of Convinience, and many others

  • Sounds Like

    ...Hans York, Mark Knopfler, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Kenny Rankin, Teitur, Joni Mitchell, Lenine, Rufus Wainwright, Milton Nascimento, Michael Franks, Sting......

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  1. Hans York

    To my Dallas Friends:) - After a year of Sabbatical I'm back playing my music and would love to invite you to this... http://t.co/S2iP0UAjjL

  2. Hans York

    Bring your mummy or come with your friends and loved ones and celebrate her! I'm excited to be part of the... http://t.co/ItjwHa7BUn

  3. Hans York

    Going great Chi, @chimcclean ! Did a Sabbatical after being on the road for three years straight. Slowly starting to warm up again:)

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