Klangwelt (soundworld or world of sound) is the musical project of Gerald Arend, a German audiodesigner from Norderstedt (near Hamburg) who is working for the multimedia and computergamesindustry.
Born in 1966, he already made his first contact with electronic music in the late 70s with JeanMichel Jarres famous Oxygenealbum. More records with synthesizermusic followed, made by artists like Tangerine Dream, Michael Rother, Vangelis, Kitaro or Klaus Schulze. The more he listened to these fascinating sounds, the more he was convinced that this was the kind of music he would like to play himself.
Gerald bought his first synthesizer back in 1982 and started to selfeducate keyboardplaying.
The first CD Weltweit was released in early 2002 and became a big success. It got great reviews from EMmagazines and WWWsites from all over the world, tracks from the album were played in numerous radioshows like the USprogram Echoes. The end of 2003 saw the release of the second album The Age Of Numbers, an electronic journey into the fascinating world of numbers and mathematics. The second CD soon received lots of positive reviews and became a big success as well. In late summer 2006, the latest album XOIO was released.
XOIO : Playful samplingexperiments, floating spherical sounds and driving beats with his third album, Klangwelt proves how colourful electronic music can be. Each of the nine tracks sweeps the listener away into a unique soundcosmos, refined with Klangwelts typical crystal clear timbres, dreamy harmonies and effervescent arpeggiosequences.
http://www.klangwelt.info
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