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Release Date: 25-10-1992
Label: Erdenklang Musik
Catalog Number: EK20582
Barcode: 723091205825
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laguna De La Vera | 8 | Flowers Delight  |
| 2 | Lure Of Solitude | 9 | Gentle Breeze |
| 3 | Nightfall | 10 | Forest's Lament |
| 4 | Deep Green | 11 | Little White Mice |
| 5 | Bahia Dawn | 12 | Spassibo |
| 6 | New Winter | 13 | June'62 |
| 7 | Fesdu | 14 | Follow Me |
Description:
Discreet melodies are drifting from the CD-Player which seem familiar to you, as if you have known them for years. And yet they are so refreshingly new. Bernward Koch is a master of melodies with few notes. 'The Lagoon Of Thruth' has in store for you a breath of that so sunny feeling you always notice, when you want break out of the humdrum daily routine with the help of this music. Composer and pianist Bernward Koch devoted his second album to the Maledives Islands because his debut album 'Flowing' enjoys considerable popularity on that group of islands. On the American west coast too, many people are fond of this lovely, uncomplicated and relaxed music. He is the only German musician represented there on two samplers, whose entire revenue will be donated to AIDS help organizations. So far over 350,000 of these CD's and MC's have been sold. This album became a great USA success in 1993 and found a place in the Billboard's New Age Charts. Supported by his wife - Christiane Böhm - on the flute and his brother - Christoph Koch - on percussion, this album is, so to speak, a family project.
Biography:
Bernward Koch (kahtch) has experienced a most astonishing rise within the Contemporary Instrumental Music scene during the last few years. Many NAC radio stations such as 'The Wave' have popularized the work of this German keyboardist via power-rotation.
Koch's fame began to ascend when the artist (among greats such as Bonnie Raitt, Sting, Basia and Ottmar Liebert) contributed a track for two Aids-benefit compilations initiated by California radio stations KKSF and The Wave. Today Bernward Koch is considered by many as one of the genre's leading artists.
Nobody who knows Koch's music will be surprised by his success. The classically trained artist composes pieces of outstanding formal maturity with an astonishing musical finesse. Koch himself calls his compositions songs without lyrics -- and indeed they are delicately crafted and clearly show their creator's sense of form. His arrangements are always marked by a tasteful balance of synthesized and natural sounds. The organic pulse of a real, flesh and blood drummer, Bernward's brother Christoph, is essential for Koch's music and the exquisite flute playing of his wife, Christine Bohm, has over the years become a trademark feature in his sound.
