Chris Karrer

Christoph "Chris" Karrer (born 20 January 1947, Kempten, Germany) is a German guitarist and composer. He also plays oud, saxophone and violin. He is known as co-founder of Amon Düül (later participating in the related and much more commercially successful project Amon Düül II) and for his collaboration with Embryo.^[1] With his band Amon Düül II he composed film music for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Niklashauser Fart and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film San Domingo (Deutscher Filmpreis 1971 for film music).

Karrer was born in Kempten in Bavaria.

Discography

Solo

Chris Karrer LP (1980) with Curt Cress
Dervish Kiss (1994) with Sivan Perwer and Rabih Abou-Khalil
Sufisticated CD (1996)
The Mask CD (1997) with Mani Neumeier and Christian Burchard
Grandezza Mora CD (1999)

Collaborations

Missus Beastly (LP 1970) with Missus Beastly
Patchwork (CD 1999) with M.T. Wizzard
Dunarobba (LP 2000) with Militia
Temporale (CD 2005) with Alhambra
Fitzcarraldo (CD 2005) with Popol Vuh
Portrait (2009) with Uli Trepte
PSY (2008) with Guru Guru

References

↑ Freeman, Steve; Alan Freeman (1996). The crack in the cosmic egg: encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische musik & other progressive, experimental & electronic musics from Germany. Audion. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-9529506-0-8.

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