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

• with Amon Düül
• with Amon Düül II
• with Embryo

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

1. 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.

External links

• Grandezza Mora
• http://www.thing.de/delektro/artikel/eng/ad2/ad-yeti-yogi.html Interview
• http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/60/