Otarion

Electronic music has always fascinated him. Even as a keyboarder in a school band at the end of the 70's, he did not spare his band colleagues with ideas and influences from the EM. But profession and further education did not allow him to get in touch with the synths again until 1989. Initially only for his own archiving on DAT tape and audio cassettes, his music found its way into the practice of a non-medical practitioner. The great demand of his patients prompted him to commission a small edition of audio cassettes. Here contacts to musicians and record labels were established. And so on June 21, 1997 the first work "Let there be light" was published.

On November 18, 1998 Rainer Klein gave his debut concert in Essen-Steele.  He was able to gain further stage experience with Bernd Braun, also known under his stage name Arcanum, at the concerts "Klang-Raum-Wort" and various performances with the musicians Mario Schönwälder, Detlef Keller and Bas Broekhuis.

Motivated and spurred on by 2nd place in the competition "Literature and Electronic Music" with the title "Symbioses" in 1998, he worked on the next album "Evolution", which was released in 2000 by the English record label Neu Harmony. Under the same label the CD's "Creator" and "Faces of the night" were released afterwards. With the release of new music Rainer Klein consciously takes his time and tries to critically evaluate his compositions himself. 

The album "Out of Eden" was thus created over several years. Here the listener notices a stylistic advancement whereby the musical identity of Otarion always remains. He continued this with many high class albums until today.