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Biography
In 1982 Konrad Kuechenmeister was born in Dresden/ Germany. At the age of 4 he got addicted to music already. His dad is musician and had a room packed with intruments – a room that turned into Konrad`s playground.
At the age of 22 he had the chance to join the American band „Regatta69“ as keyboard player and toured Europe, the US, England and Swtzerland with the band.
Konrad really enjoyed performing with the guys but pretty soon felt himself limited to play just one instrument. He wanted more than that. And there was more....
In spring of 2006 he suddenly discovered the Loopstation (initially the RC20XL). Equipped with a car battery, an amplifier, his loopstation and several instruments he gigged around Berlin as a street musician.
Then out of his improvisations he developed songs and set up a show. And pretty soon afterwards he got the chance to perform on a stage. And a few days later a radio station (RadioFritz) took notice of his skills and by that he had his first radio interview and also his first solo show in the summer of 2006. In autumn then the TV show of XEN.ON shot a documentary about him and his show which was broadcasted by 17 other channels in Germany like RBB, OKB and OKR (and sometimes is still broadcasted).
After he had played a lot of shows – sometimes in tiny little in-scene venues and sometimes on bigger festival stages – this draw „SPUR1-MUSIC“`s interest on him. The indie label offered him to record and release an album, which was pressed in a strictly limited version of just 500 pieces. In spring of 2008 „Loopool“ his first album was released and was sold out within the next three months. „Battery Street“ the successing album is not a limited edition was released in summer of 2009.
Surely one of the most impressive highlight of his career as a solo musician was his touring with „BerlinLoopBrasil“in the summer of 2008. The German Embassy invited the collective to perform 2 months in Brasil within the framework of the „German Culture Fest“ supported by the „Goethe Institute“. „BerlinLoopBrasil“ is a collective of Konrad, several dancers, a film artist as well as a light artist of Berlin`s „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“, which is is a place for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse.
Due to the huge media coverage the local shows were massively packed with people and the artists performed in front of up to 5000 people. Even the first show at the famous „Teatro Caixa Cultural“ was sold out. While touring Brasil Konrad got in touch with a lot of musicians who were introduced to looping by him. Pretty soon some of those local artists joined the German collective and became part of the collective. The tour of „BerlinLoopBrasil“ suddenly turned into the project of „BerlinLoopBrasil“ and due to the growing demand he toured again three times with the project in Brasil and it was an honour for him to warm up for ManuChao as his official support act in the „Arena Brasila“.
Since the summer of 2009 Konrad is alsomst constantly touring Germany, playing a lot of show in different venues and festivals and in spring 2010 he was invited to come to Shanghai/ China to ply five shows at the German Pavillon an the „World Exhibition 2010“. The next Brasil tour is going to start in summer this year....To be continued.....
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