Koch’s fame began to ascend when the artist (among greats such Sting, Bonie Riatt, Dave Grusin, Al Jarreau, Ottmar Liebert and Dave Stewart) contributed a track for two Aids-benefit compilations initiated by California radio stations KKSF and THE WAVE and have achieved top positions on US-Billboard’s New Age Chart.
Today Bernward Koch is considered by many as among the genre’s leading artists. No one who knows Koch’s music is surprised by his success. The classically trained artist composes pieces of outstanding formal maturity and with an astonishing musical finesse. Koch himself calls his piano based compositions „songs without lyrics“, and indeed they are delicately crafted and clearly show their creator’s sense of form in his discernible tuneful signature.
His arrangements are always marked by a tasteful balance of natural and electronic sounds. The most instruments (piano, keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion) plays himself, mixed with percussionist and guitar player Bernward’s brother Christoph; and the exquisite flute playing of his wife Christiane Boehm has over the years become a trademark feature in his sound.
GENTLE SPIRIT: the new album from Bernward Koch, released on May 19th 2009! Bernward plays the most of the instruments (piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, glockenspiel, programming), additional intruments are flute (by Christiane Boehm) and percussion (Christoph Koch) on his fifteen new compositions. CD order, downloads, informations and more at:
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