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  • Genre: Alternative / Latin

    Location Berlin, DE

    Profile Views: 62398

    Last Login: 1/27/2013

    Member Since 12/5/2007

    Record Label Cityslang, Touch And Go Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    My musical career started with picking up the trumpet in the local umptah band in the little german Village where I grew up. I was 8 and did not have any idea what impact that instrument later would have. After playing all sorts of music, and on all possible occasions, such as oktoberfests, weddings and funerals, I started playing the guitar to my favorite Punk, Rock and Rockabilly records around age 13 or 14. After the first 3 or 4 chords were learned, I joined some local bands in the next bigger city Kassel. A decade later I joined the fantastic "Rundfunktanzorchester Kassel" and "Ira Lee and the Whithazelboys".They where the two most important bands for me during that period. One led to the other and before I knew it I was offered a gig with an american band called Calexico which I still tour and record with today. Besides that I played live or/and recorded with artists like Arcade Fire, Nada Surf, Evan Dando, Willie Nelson, Feist, Wilco, Lizz Wright, Nancy Sinatra, Los Lobos, Neko Case, Broken Social Scene, Stephan Eicher, The Frames, Los Super Seven, Bee and Flower, Mark Lanegan, Loveland, Nikko Weidemann, Laith Al Deen, Jessie Evans, Lisa Bessange, Depedro, Jason Colette, Charlie Dee, Fink, Andrew Bird...and many others. Thru the years a wide variety of instruments crossed my path. Besides the trumped and electric and acoustic guitars I now play accordion, fluegelhorn, frenchhorn, keys, percussions, euphonium, vibraphone and mandotar. If you'd like to see this mixed salad , check out the showdates on this page. Thanks for stopping by and listening. Hope to see you soon. .. .. .. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....
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  • 2 years ago
  • Noches Florentinas

    Hola Martin, un saludo desde Argentina! Cuándo vuelven por aquí?!?

    2 years ago
  • Bee and Flower

    arg, long lost... you'd better be around when i get there. don't make me kick your butt up and down the straße ;)

    2 years ago
  • Christine The Smiling R…







    It was a great pleasure to see you last year with Calexico, and this year with Nada Surf at Lausanne and Paris ! 


    2 years ago
  • Ira Lee

    epaaaaa, maaartiiiiiiin! go go go! wenn's klappen soll, müssen wir's jetzt organisieren! ich könnte mir gut einen heimeligen grillabend in whitehazle vor unserer hütte vorstellen, schön im kreise der whitehazle-familie...

    2 years ago
  • Joanna Widder

    Dankesch�n f�rs addieren

    3 years ago
  • Andre L

    danke für den "Add" und viel Spaß in Down Under.

    3 years ago
  • Bernd Schneider

    hallo martin,war ein klasse abend mit depero(in berlin)endlich ein wenig sommer hitze,dank euch!deine musikalische vielseitigkeit...immer wieder toll !!! l.g. bernd

    3 years ago
  • Angela Borghesi

    Thank you for adding me :)
    when you will come in Iatly with Calexico???
    I love you!
    kisses!

    3 years ago
  • Amy Sturm

    happy christmas. eat well and live long! see you guys in january:)

    3 years ago
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Bio:

My musical career started with picking up the trumpet in the local umptah band in the little german Village where I grew up. I was 8 and did not have any idea what impact that instrument later would have. After playing all sorts of music, and on all possible occasions, such as oktoberfests, weddings and funerals, I started playing the guitar to my favorite Punk, Rock and Rockabilly records around age 13 or 14. After the first 3 or 4 chords were learned, I joined some local bands in the next bigger city Kassel. A decade later I joined the fantastic "Rundfunktanzorchester Kassel" and "Ira Lee and the Whithazelboys".They where the two most important bands for me during that period. One led to the other and before I knew it I was offered a gig with an american band called Calexico which I still tour and record with today. Besides that I played live or/and recorded with artists like Arcade Fire, Nada Surf, Evan Dando, Willie Nelson, Feist, Wilco, Lizz Wright, Nancy Sinatra, Los Lobos, Neko Case, Broken Social Scene, Stephan Eicher, The Frames, Los Super Seven, Bee and Flower, Mark Lanegan, Loveland, Nikko Weidemann, Laith Al Deen, Jessie Evans, Lisa Bessange, Depedro, Jason Colette, Charlie Dee, Fink, Andrew Bird...and many others. Thru the years a wide variety of instruments crossed my path. Besides the trumped and electric and acoustic guitars I now play accordion, fluegelhorn, frenchhorn, keys, percussions, euphonium, vibraphone and mandotar. If you'd like to see this mixed salad , check out the showdates on this page. Thanks for stopping by and listening. Hope to see you soon. ..   I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) ..

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Dezember 05, 2007

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Cityslang, Touch And Go Records

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