Deuter
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Deuter is a German New Age instrumentalist and recording artist known for his meditative style that blends Eastern and Western musical styles.
[edit] Biography
Born Georg Deuter in 1945 in post-war Germany in the town of Falkenhagen, he taught himself the guitar, the flute, harmonica and "just about every instrument I could get my hands on," though it wasn’t until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties that he decided to pursue a career in music. His first release in 1970, entitled “D,” is widely acknowledged as a Krautrock classic. “D” marked the beginning of Deuter’s spiritual and musical journey, ostensibly paving the way for a new genre of music known as “New Age,” which combined acoustic and electronic elements with ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds, such as whale and bird song, the open sea, wind in the trees, et cetera.
During the Seventies and Eighties Deuter, after travelling extensively in Asia in search of spiritual and creative inspiration, settled for a long time in Pune, India, where under the name Chaitanya Hari he became a neo-sannyasin - a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who later changed his name to Osho. With the aid of a multitrack tape-machine, living in the neo-sannyas ashram, he produced a series of music tapes to be used in "active meditations", consisting of several "stages" of ten or fifteen minutes each, which range between, and often merge, Indian classical motifs, fiery drums, loops, synthesisers, bells, musique concrete and pastoral acoustic passages. These works, constructed to the master's instructions in consultation with a team of disciples testing the meditation methods, deserve recognition for their purely functional or objective origination as well as for their originality, power and sometime beauty.
In the early nineties, Deuter - who always retained his professional name - ended his long standing relationship with Kuckuck, the small record label that had released nearly 20 original Deuter albums in as many years, and relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he signed a deal with New Earth Records, an independent label founded by fellow sannyasin Bhikkhu Schober and Waduda Paradiso. This proved to be a lucrative move for all involved, as Deuter's New Earth Records releases, the majority of them intended to accompany various healing and spiritual practices such as Reiki, massage and meditation or, in the case of Earth Blue (2003), a collaboration with the Autostadt Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, have sold well over half a million copies.
Deuter continues to learn and master an ever-expanding array of instruments, including the drums, the shakuhachi flute, the koto, sitar, Tibetan singing bowls, santoor, bouzouki, piano and keyboard. He’s recorded and released over 60 albums and claims to have sold more than he can count during the course of his career.
[edit] Discography
(Represented by year of actual recording)
- D 1971
- Aum 1972
- Celebration 1973
- Kundalini Meditation Music 1975
- Nadabrahma Meditation Music 1975
- Nataraj Meditation Music 1975
- Tea from an empty Cup 1975
- Riding the Bull 1976
- Dynamic Meditation Music 1976
- Haleakala 1978
- Ecstasy 1978
- Silence is the Answer 1980
- Cicada 1982
- Nirvana Road 1984
- Phantasiereisen 1984
- San 1984
- Call of the Unknown 1985
- Phantasiereisen 1987
- Land of Enchantment 1988
- Healing Hypno Trances 1990
- Bashos Pond 1990
- Petrified Forest 1990
- Sands of Time 1991
- Henon 1992
- Tao Te King Music & Words 1992
- Relax 1993
- Inside Hypno Relaxation 1994
- Terra magica: Planet of light 1994
- Klänge der Liebe Relaxation 1995
- Wind & Mountain 1995
- In Trance Hypno 1995
- Chakras 1995
- Tu dir gut 1996
- Nada Himalaya Tibetan bells 1997
- Reiki Hands of light 1998
- Die Blaue Blume 1998
- Chakra 1998
- Garden of the Gods 1999
- Männerrituale Music & Words 2000
- Frauenrituale Music & Words 2000
- Sun Spirit 2000
- Buddha Nature 2001
- Wind & Mountain 2001
- Like the Wind in the Trees 2002
- Sea & Silence 2003
- Earth Blue 2004
- Tibet: Nada Himalaya, Vol. 2 2005
- East of the Full Moon 2005
- Koyasan: Reiki Sound Healing 2007
- Spiritual Healing 2008
