Schoenwaelder, Mario

Artist: Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwälder feat. Raughi Ebert & Thomas Kagermann
P: 2002    
This release by the well-known trio Bas Broekhuis, Detled Keller and Mario Schönwälder is a double live album, which sees the musicians play with Raughi Ebert (electric and acoustic guitar) and Thomas Kagermann (violin) during a concert on January 20th 2008 at the Dorfkirche Repelen.
The second disc comprises five tracks recorded at concerts at the same location in January 2006 and 2007, plus a recording of a rehearsal of the complete band.
This release from 2008 features 146 minutes of gripping electronic music.
Disc 1 was recorded live at Dorfkirche Repelen on January 20, 2008. Disc 2 features live and rehearsal tracks from performances at Dorfkirche Repelen in 2006 to 2007.
Joining Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario Schönwälder are Raughi Ebert (on guitar) and Thomas Kagermann (on violin).
This release adds lively guitar and energized violin to the percussion-enhanced pastiche of layered electronics, resulting in tuneage that is as vigorous as it is dreamy. Twinkling electronics generate a spacey foundation of undulant passages with streaming harmonics of noble character.

Artist: Fanger & Schönwälder
P: 2016
On their DVD "Analog Overdose - The Roadmovie" was the first part of their Berlin concert on 08.08.2008 released. On this EP you can hear the second part of the concert.

Artist: Broekhuis, Rothe & Schönwälder
P: 2021
Kontroll-Raum is a new project from Bas Broekhuis, Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder. "Check In" is a fascinating synthetic, polyrhythmic album with numerous influences from the most diverse playing styles of electronic and psychedelic music. As with many good albums, at the beginning you are irritated and unsure where it is supposed to take you. But the fascination is there immediately and you find new sounds and rhythms with every new listen. The CD was created in 2020 in times of spatial separation by intensively sending files with individual tracks and fragments to each other as well as countless video phone calls. In this way, a musical work of great density developed over several months. Open your ears and mind and let the three sound tinkerers Bas Broekhuis, Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder take you into their sound cosmos.
Somewhere in the middle between the music of Broekhuis, Keller & Schönwald and Filter-Coffee you could settle the sound creations of control room. The sounds are retro-electronic and slightly colder (machine) than those of UCS, but on the other hand also more rhythmic and percussive than the cosmic waves of filter coffee. Sometimes the music is reminiscent of Schulze with drums (such as a little a la "Moondawn" – you can hear e.B. "C9 05-05"), but the sounds on "Check In" work their way forward in a more modern, colourful and with their own character. With various hand percussions, Broekhuis ensures a steady, often rather thoughtful dynamic, which ensures, however, that the expansive and voluminous sound images, or the airy and playful tone-spinning, move forward movingly, swaying cautiously, more nervously tacking and sometimes even rocking subduedly. At the same time, however, the music also exudes this typically spacy-cosmic depth and tonal density, as one appreciates it on albums of the genre.

Artist: Broekhuis, Rothe & Schönwälder
P: 2023
All tracks composed, arranged and played by Bas Broekhuis, Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder
Recorded live in Berlin at Superbooth22 (tracks 1 and 4), Superbooth23 (track 6) and during a recording
session at Bas‘ place in Westerwolde/Netherlands in May 2023
Further recordings were made in June and July 2023 in our studios in Berlin/Germany,
Schönefeld/Germany and Westerwolde/Netherlands

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Artist: Mario Schönwälder 
P: 1989 / 2023
Originally recorded November 1988 - May 1989 at Orpheus Studio Berlin Composed, arranged and produced by Mario Schönwälder
Track 4 recorded live at the Berlin Planetary on 7th January 1989.
´The Eye Of The Chameleon´ is Mario Schönwälder´s 1st CD, released on Musique Intemporelle in 1989, re-released on Manikin Records in 1992.
In particular, the excellent title track is very typical late 1970s Schulze style. The bell-like sequences, the basses, the solos, and the overall atmosphere evidence this. It could be a track from “The Historic Edition”.

Artist: Mario Schönwälder & Rothe 
P: 2016
To close the list of sizes of filter papers from 100 to 102 Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder have searched in their files of older recordings and found some gems of "Berlin School" electronic for a release on this EP. All tracks composed. arranged and performed by Frank Rothe and Mario Schönwälder between 2009 and 2011, except "raindrops", which was recorded in 2014. Additional recordings on tracks 1 and 4 were made in 2015/2016 at SouthEndStudio, Berlin.

Artist: Mario Schönwälder & Rothe
P: 2011 / 2020
LTD 100
Filter-Kaffee 101 is the new side project by Mario Schönwälder and Frank Rothe (member of Fratoroler). Newcomer Fratoroler released their first CD-R 'Reflections' in 2010.
Filter-Kaffee 101 is performed and recorded over three years. Schönwälder & Rothe played a lot of real analogue and virtuell analogue gear. On an evening of January 2011 they listened to all this recorded stuff while they were drinking cups of coffee and take the tracks in the right order.
Mastered by Gerd Wienekamp of Rainbow Serpent, the CD is a wonderfull nearly 70 minutes long trip into their world of analogue soundsscapes and sequences in Berlin School of Electronic Music. Highly recommended for all fans of the music from the great aera of EM, the seventies!

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Artist: Mario Schönwälder & Rothe 
P: 2024
 

Artist: Mario Schönwälder 
P: 1992
Starting with the grammatically challenged “Let the Rhythm Comin’ On You,” this is vintage Schönwälder from 1992, relaxed and confident. A lilting bass line meanders its way just so from beginning to end as delicate beats and a subtle but effective synth solo move things along.
“Les Yeux Sans Visage” is light and airy, surprisingly abstract yet warm.
“Sems’U’Kanar” has long been a favorite of mine, here in a slightly shorter version than appears on Solotrip. The ethnic sounds, the guitar synth lead, the simple bass loop, all of it blending seamlessly together into something that isn’t exactly Berlin school, ambient, dance, or trance – just a great piece of electronic music. Beautiful tinkling electronics like glass adorn “The Point of Impact.” Again the gentle touch pays off here, as it does throughout.
“Memories of Oz” and the title track add on another 26-plus minutes of great mellow Berlin-tinged journeys.
Though the pensive wistful “Farewell From Heaven” seems such an appropriate way to end the disc, there’s more, namely two bonus tracks.
Recorded around the same time as the rest of the album, they do fit in well, though for flow I would have swapped them, opting for the dreamy “Testsequence” as the closer as opposed to the playful bouncing bass line of “Quiet Earth.”

This is the last copy of the original factory pressed CD!
 

Artist: Schönwälder 
P: 1989 / 1992
Originally recorded November 1988 - May 1989 at Orpheus Studio Berlin Composed, arranged and produced by Mario Schönwälder
Track 4 recorded live at the Berlin Planetary on 7th January 1989.
´The Eye Of The Chameleon´ is Mario Schönwälder´s 1st CD, released on Musique Intemporelle in 1989, re-released on Manikin Records in 1992.
In particular, the excellent title track is very typical late 1970s Schulze style. The bell-like sequences, the basses, the solos, and the overall atmosphere evidence this. It could be a track from “The Historic Edition”.

Here the last copy of the factory version!