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Searching for the Blues
Robert Johnson did not sell his soul to the devil. But how did he crack the Blues code...? While modern music historians have now almost completely stripped the Blues of its myths, award-winning Swiss singer-songwriter, slide guitarist and book author Richard Koechli gives him back the soul in a philosophical way. With a mystical story that deeply explores the question of what exactly might be behind the legendary "mojo" of the great Blues masters. Koechli embarks on a trip to the temples of the African-American musical soul, gets involved in strange thought adventures, meets all kinds of stars of Blues and Rock history – and in the end is haunted in a dream by the most famous of all Blues figures, by Robert Johnson (1911-1938). Johnson 'tells' him what really happened in Mississippi back then, how he got the Blues secret – and whether the devil really played a role ... A stirring story for all Blues lovers; full of light-footed poetry, spiritual depth and music-historical precision. You can feel in every line that the author is not a theorist, but a Blues artist down to the core.
Music and Transcendence - Story of a Dream Team
Music exhilarates, enchants, fires, liberates, calms, comforts, heals. Like hardly any other medium, it lets us take off into a world beyond time and space. How does that work? What is the mystery of sound? There are theories, suppositions and hunches from the most diverse fields, but in no epoch has it been possible to lift the veil definitively. Tenaciously, playfully and at times ironically, Swiss musician and book author Richard Koechli searches for answers as to how and why music touches us and, in the sense of transcendence, even takes us beyond ourselves. What processes are going on there, in the brain and in the soul? How has all this influenced the history of humanity? Meticulously,...
Tampa Red - The Forgotten King Of Blues
Hardly any book tells more about the history of Chicago Blues. Hardly any biography reveals more anecdotes and secrets of the Blues. Tampa Red (ca. 1903 - 1981) should be mentioned in the same breath with legends like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters or B.B. King. For more than 20 years Tampa Red set the tone in Chicago; the first with a brass guitar, one of the first with an electric guitar, pioneering slide virtuoso, author of more than 300 song pearls, mentor of many later stars. But Hudson Whittaker, as his real name was, lost glory and health towards the end of his life, died lonely as a forgotten man. To this day, no comprehensive book has been published, no film, nothing. Unbelievable! No...
Holy Blues
How African American Christian music influenced Western cultural history and forever changed the world of song. What do blues, jazz, soul, R&B, rock'n'roll, folk, country, rock, pop and hip hop have in common? Their origin, their fire! Holy Blues (Gospel Blues) is the source of all the roots music we love. The history of gospel music is 400 years old; its spirit even much older, and without it we simply would not be able to be enchanted by soulful music today. Reason enough to trace this good spirit, Holy Spirit. The award-winning Swiss musician and book author Richard Koechli embarks on an adventurous journey through American cultural history and shows with countless concrete examples how high the influence of faith on the music and its producers has been throughout the centuries, how decisive and mysterious the divine dimension shapes the music at every moment. Koechli does this in a double package: as a book author with a soul stirring history trip, and as a blues artist with very personal interpretations of timeless Holy Blues songs (free download).
Boogiemania - 88 keys to the soul
In over 4,000 performances in 19 countries to date, the award-winning Swiss boogie and blues pianist Nico Brina has experienced the magic of improvised music, how it affects people and what it triggers in their souls. Music as a world language. Already in his German-language book "Von 100 auf 0 in 1 Sekunde" (From 100 to 0 in 1 second), published in 2022, he talked humorously and up close about his career and about unusual projects that enabled him to keep the flame alive even during the coronavirus pandemic. Just in time for his 40th stage anniversary, a direct continuation of this successful author's journey is now being published, and this time also in an English translation: "Boogiemania...
The Evolution of Consciousness
The Evolution of Consciousness - The entire history of mankind affects our inner life, mostly without our knowledge. Often this influence on our soul is so subtly and finely ingrained in our patterns of behaviour that we view them as a matter of course, unaware that and how they separate us from what we really want and what is important to us. In a way, our personal life story represents a miniature repetition of human cultural development in general. The challenges we are confronted with our individual lives are similar to those that all man-kind has had to take up. Thus, we can learn from our precursors in history how we might succeed in life but also how we might fail.
Der vergessene König des Blues - Tampa Red
Tampa Red müsste im selben Atemzug mit Blueslegenden wie Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters oder B.B. King genannt werden. Während mehr als 20 Jahren war er in Chicago tonangebend - der Erste mit einer Blechgitarre, einer der Ersten mit einer E-Gitarre, pionierhafter Saitenvirtuose, Autor von über 300 Songperlen, Mentor vieler späterer Stars. Doch Hudson Whittaker, so sein bürgerlicher Name, verlor gegen Ende seines Lebens Glanz und Gesundheit, starb einsam wie ein Vergessener. Bis heute erschien kein umfassendes Buch über ihn, kein Film, nichts. Unbegreiflich! Mit einem literarischen Trick versucht der Schweizer Autor und Musiker Richard Koechli, das Steuer herumzureissen, dem vergessenen K...
Holy Blues
Was haben Blues, Jazz, Soul, R&B, Rock'n'Roll, Folk, Country, Rock, Pop und Hip Hop gemeinsam? Ihre Herkunft, ihr Feuer! Holy Blues war der Feuerherd. Holy Blues, auch Gospel genannt, ist die Quelle all jener Rootsmusik, die wir lieben. Die Geschichte der Gospelmusik ist 400-jährig; ihr Geist noch sehr viel älter, und ohne ihn würden wir uns heute schlicht und einfach nicht von beseelter Musik verzaubern lassen können. Grund genug, diesem guten Geist nachzuspüren. Der Schweizer Musiker und Fachbuchautor Richard Koechli macht sich auf die abenteuerliche Reise durch die amerikanische Kulturgeschichte und zeigt mit unzähligen konkreten Beispielen auf, wie hoch während all den Jahrhunderten der Einfluss des Glaubens auf die Musik und ihre Erzeuger:innen war, wie entscheidend und geheimnisvoll die göttliche Dimension in jedem Moment die Musik prägt. Koechli tut dies im Doppelpack: Als Buchautor mit einem inspirierenden Geschichts-Trip, und als Blues-Künstler gratis dazu mit einem mp3-Album zum freien Download.
Slide Guitar Instrumentals
DE: Richard Koechlis Gitarrenbuch Slide Guitar Styles gilt seit über 20 Jahren als Standard-Werk im deutschen Sprachraum. Nun veröffentlicht der Schweizer Autor als Ergänzung ein Spielbuch mit ausgiebigen Übungsstücken: 12 Instrumentals aus verschiedenen Stilrichtungen (Blues, Folk, Pop, Rock, Country) mit mittlerem bis höherem Schwierigkeitsgrad. Stücke, die Spass machen und sich auch vor Publikum nicht zu verstecken brauchen. Das Buch ist multimedial, mit Audio- und Video-Download, QR-Codes, zusätzlichem e-book und in dreisprachiger Übersetzung. EN: Richard Koechli's guitar book Slide Guitar Styles has been the standard work in the German-speaking world for over 20 years. Now the ...
