Musical Influences
Concerning my musical taste I do not care much about the actual sound of the music as long as it it interesting in terms of structure, rhythm and melody. As main influences I would like to point out some of my very favourite albums and classical composers. The following list may also serve as a recommendation for all fans of complex progressive rock and kinds of music.
- Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Stormwatch
- Yes: Close to the Edge, Fragile, Relayer
- Zappa: One size fits all, Overnite Sensation, Sleep Dirt
- Genesis: Nursery Crime, Foxtrot
- Gentle Giant: All Albums up until 1976
- ELP: ELP, Tarkus, Trilogy
- Rush: Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Hemispheres, Power Windows
- Peter Hammill: In Camera, A Black Box
- Van der Graaf: Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, Still Life
- King Crimson: Red, Lizard, Discipline, The Power to Believe
- UK: UK
- Univers Zero: UZED, Ceux du dehors, Heatwave
- XTC: English Settlement, Oranges and Lemons, Big Express
- Dream Theater: When dream and day unite, Images and Words
- Magellan: Hour of Restauration, Impending Ascension
- Manfred Mann: Roaring Silence, Nightingales and Bombers
- Queen: A Night at the Opera
- Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
- Cardiacs: On Land and in the Sea
- Beatles: Abbey Road
- Kate Bush: The Dreaming
- 5 UU´s: Elements
- Thinking Plague: In this Life, In Extremis
- Anglagaard: Hybris, Epilog
- Allan Holdsworth: Road Games, IOU
- Traffic: John Barleycorne must die
- Symphony X: Twylight in Olympus, Paradise Lost
- Haken: Aquarius
Classical composers:
- Allan Pettersson
- Dimitri Shostakovitch
- Bela Bartok
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- Igor Stravinsky
- Arthur Honnegger
- Paul Hindemith
- Gustav Mahler