Andreas Baaden

What is it that inspires Andreas Baaden's music? The small, compact and picturesque mountainous landscape of Siebengebirge. That is where his songs are written in the "Antares-Studio" in Bad Honnef/Aegidienberg.

He began late with electronic music. His grandmother, with whom he was often with, had an old, very interestingly out of tune piano, which he could try out extensively in unobserved moments. There are no recordings!

Later he took his first steps on the synthesizer (Korg MS 20) and then carried out wild experiments with various recording devices. Here recordings still exist! After a few years in the Münster rock band Nachtfahrt, Andreas set up a small music studio and dedicated himself to the production of his own compositions. His first album "Gamma" was released in 2005.

Stylistically the music is influenced by different styles: classical Berlin school, romantic EM in the style of Michael Rother, progressive rock music like Genesis. It was the instrumental songs by Genesis and especially the album "Tangram" by Tangerine Dream that made Andreas Baaden make music himself. It is mostly quiet and relaxed music, based on harmonic textures and melodies. Sometimes it also turns more rocky and experimental.

Andreas always finds like-minded people for various jam sessions, for example with Uwe Cremer (Level Pi) in the Baaden/Cremer project (see the album "Aufbruch" here at Mellowjet). For some years now he plays in the rock band Basement Two in Bonn, they have some of his tracks in their repertoire.