Christian Eigner

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Christian Eigner (born 3 March 1971 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian session musician, having worked on over 300 albums. Most contributions have been to Austrian musicians like Peter Cornelius, Georg Danzer, Al Slavik or Dr. Kurt Ostbahn.

He has been Depeche Mode's tour drummer since 1997, and has also occasionally collaborated, having co-written three songs on their 2005 album Playing the Angel.

He has also released a solo album titled Recovery in October 2005.[1]

For the Austrian movie Die Viertelliterklasse released in March 2005, he wrote the film score.[2]

Since 1997, he has also performed live with fellow Austrian musicians Al Slavik and Karl Ritter under the name of Sel Gapu Mex. They have released an album and most recently toured in December 2006 in Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, this time with Andrew Philpott, Eigner's collaborator on the three tracks penned with David Gahan for the Depeche Mode album Playing the Angel.

Eigner, Philpott, and Gahan also co-wrote for Gahan's second solo album Hourglass in 2007, which they also produced.[3]

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  1. ^ Universal Music: CD Recovery
  2. ^ IMDB: Die Viertelliterklasse
  3. ^ Dave Gahan's 'Hourglass' Eagerly Awaited Second Solo LP Released October 22nd, 2007 on Mute First Single 'Kingdom', Released October 8th, 2007 Official press release from 2007-08-07
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