Vita
January 2002 I started my second trip to India/Goa for a period of three months. This time it was quiet comfortable to "dive" in, in this total different culture.
Immediately after arriving there, I started again lessons on pakhawaj with my friend and teacher Gajanan Amonkar. He taught me a lot of new Indian Rhythms (Bols) and we showed up together in some interesting concerts.
Dhrupad-singer Amelia Cuni, she participated on my cd Raviindra "Aswattha" (topical projects) and Ramesh Shotham, who showed me some of the basics of South Indian drumming on the ghatam; they both had such a great influence on me that I started on a journey to India in January 2000. Goa was to be my first destination.
No sooner had I arrived there when I met Gajanan Amonkar and Manab Das.
Gajanan is playing the tablas and the pakhawaj and Manab from 
Calcutta is playing the sitar. They are very close friends and they are teaching at Kala Academy (Goa College of Music).
The next few months it turned out that my Karma served well: Gajanan became my teacher in pakhawaj and a very good friend, too.
Thanks to Manab, I regained the sitar and indian food. spielt Sitar.
Music Competition "Querbeet" from SWR
1996 - The beginning with Ahmet Yüzen (b), Erich Baumgärtner (sax.), Berthold Reusch (git.), Nils Tannert (marimba,perc.), Raviindra Ralf "Ralle" Fricker (dr.perc.comp.)
1997 - we began to produce the Cd "Aswattha" with Amelia Cuni (dhrupad, tanpura), Prabhudeva (b), Ahmet Yüzen (b), Bernd Dieterich (b), Berthold Reusch (git.), Erich Baumgärtner (sax.), Nils Tannert (marimba, perc.), Andrés Schreiber (viol.), Alwin Pütsch (didj.), Mahdi Milla (perc.), Omri Hason (perc.), Andieh Merk (tabla, fl.) and Raviindra Ralf "Ralle" Fricker (dr.perc.comp.)
1998 - presentation of the Cd and concerts with the ethno singer Nani Tschauner from Frankfurt second award at the multi-cultural music competition "Querbeet" from SWR
1999 - with Amelia Cuni
During my second journey to Brazil which led me immediately to Rio de Janeiro. I studied at Centro Musical Antonio Adolfo. Antonio Adolfo himself taught me in MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira). I learned drums and percussion from Tutty Moreno. He is Joyce's husband and drummer.
My other two drum-masters at Centro Musical were Gustavo Schroeter and Bolao. That time helped me to perfect playing samba, partido alto, samba funk and so on. To conclude I performed in a concert at Theatro Leblon with a composition of Milton Nascimento. I met my friend and teacher Tutty Moreno again on march 15th, 1995 in Hamburg, when the cd "Joyce live at the Mojo Club" was produced.
Music clip on/off
