Quaeschning + Schnauss

Artist: Harald Grosskopf
P: 1980 / 2020
LTD 500
For the 40th anniversary this classic of german electronic music is released as 2-CD with new interpretations by Steve Baltes, Thorsten Quaeschning, Paul Frick, Keidler, Pyrolator, Love-Songs, Stefan Lewin, Camera and Tellavision.
This music was composed and played 1980, just during and after his collaboration with Klaus Schulze. This was his first solo CD and all his musical forces he learned since the seventies was melt into this powerful music. Even the famous radiostation WDR 1 with the radioshow Schwingungen selectet his track: "So weit, so gut" as intro. So what to say about this all:
it is one of the best synthesizer CDs ever made.

Artist: Picture Palace Music
P: 2018
Thorsten Quaeschning is proofing his qualities with this Soundtrack music. Instrumental titles with a vein of TD.   
 

Artist: Thorsten Quaeschning + Ulrich Schnauss
P: 2017
Pure Berlin-school bliss from synthmeisters Thorsten Quaeschning and Ulrich Schnauss. Synthwaves pays homage to the masters of the past, yet feels fresh and enchanting. Crisp, interlocking patterns are modulated and mutated with mathematical precision into eight pieces of pristine, post-kosmische sounds to float away to. During two intense weeks in Berlin, Quaeschning and Schnauss both students of the great, late maestro Edgar Froese locked themselves in a studio full of vintage synthesizers, analog sequencers and drum machines, and the result is a gorgeous set of purely electronic music. As the title suggests, a bit of tongue-in-cheek playfullness was allowed during the process however, all of these pieces sparkle with real emotion and warmth. As with the finest Tangerine Dream soundtracks it's the kind of music that paints vivid pictures on the canvas of the listeners mind: synth plucks hang in the air like glaring neon in metropolitan dusk, and zero-gravity pads hover like ghostly morning mist travelling over empty coastlines. Poly-rhythmic patterns are allowed to build - slowly but steadily - bar after bar, until synth-Satori is reached. By the time the last track on this album runs out, it's obvious these two producers have themselves become masters of their craft.

Artist: Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, Paul Frick
P: 2020
On the occasion of the 4th Edgar Froese Memorial Day (EFMD) on 26th January 2019 at the Ballhaus Rixdorf in Berlin, Bianca Froese-Acquaye invited Hans Joachim Roedelius, 85 years old electro pioneer of the first hour and co-founder of the legendary Berlin Zodiak Free Arts Lab (Zodiak Club) in 1969, the birth place of many Krautrock and electronic bands, even for Edgar Froese and his future band Tangerine Dream.
Hans-Joachim's soulful piano playing blends in fantastically with the rhythmic beats and sounds of Paul Frick, member of the Berlin based Techno ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick, who already appeared several times as guest musician at live concerts with Tangerine Dream, and the distinctive synth sounds of Thorsten Quaeschning, long-time member and musical director of Tangerine Dream. Hoshiko Yamane, also a member of Tangerine Dream since 2011, completes the session with her extraordinary violin play by adding her special timbre we all know so well from her TD sessions.
The KLANGTRAUBE is a very unique, almost meditative piece of music that invites the listener to dream. In view of the very special time in which we are all currently living in, worldwide, this piece of music reflects the spirit of the Zeitgeist very well.
A piece of music for dreaming and reflection, a sound journey into another dimension, wide and intangible, like the hearts and minds that will be opened. A dignified and extraordinary session of four exceptional musicians in memory of Edgar Froese.

Artist: Thorsten Quaeschning
P: 2019
Recorded live at Superbooth Festival Berlin 09.05.2019.

Artist: Thorsten Quaeschning
P: 2020
Liverecording of the  des Ambient Waves Festivals concert of Quaeschning from the 25.11. 2019 in Zeil am Main at the Capitol Theater.

Artist: Thorsten Quaeschning
P: 2019
Recorded live at Nazareth Church, Ambient Waves Festival, May 24th 2019 in Munich