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Yoshi Hampl
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YOSHI HAMPL Born in the mountains of Tyrol, Austria, Yoshi Hampl soon decided to pursue the way of professional musician. With the Solo – debut as a one man band “Living with the Bridge” and his art-rock band HCL he gains the reputation to be one of the most exciting underground – live – acts during the 1990ties in Austria. Afterward he carves, inspired from trips to Sumatra; Sinai and India - where he got intense lessons by Paramashivam Pillai on the Thavil drum, from worldmusic to soundtracks for theatre, movies and dance performances. Since 2003 he was involved in the collective DUB AWARE SOUNDSYSTEM. The EP “Mega Megh/ Eastern child” entered the international DJ - charts (20). Today Yoshi Hampl re – employed with his roots in art-rock. Particularly as a bassist he spit diverse productions, like TOVAH “Escapologist” with Pat Mastelotto( King Crimson) and Markus Reuter (Centrozoon) and BIDNER/MARTINEK “hmmm daemon…” together with Stermann and Grissemann. Yoshi Hampls last Solo work “Water Dealer” was released April 2009 by Unsung Records. He is a member of the Pan European free improvisation collective SYNTONY. Yoshi shared the stage with Adrain Belew, Yo La Tengo, Makossa, Richard Dorfmeister, H.P.Zinker, Christof Kurzmann;… Unsung Records is distributed by Ryko/Warner and King Crimson mailorder dgm.live in the USA, in Great Britain by Burning Shed and in Germany by Galileo. Label shop: www.iapetus.com User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commo
