Bowie’s ghost in Copenhagen: Rother, Lampe, Bargmann
Michael Rother, Hans Lampe and Franz Bargmann took over Copenhagen’s Jazzhouse with “Krautrock” of the timeless and immediately captivating kind.
Tag: synthesizer
My trusty companion: The Korg MS-20 (in English)
When I was a teenager (in the late seventies), I got hold of an unexpected sum of money and promptly converted it into keyboard instruments: A used Fender Rhodes piano (which I got rid of a few years later) and …
Dr. Robert Moog – the granddad of synthesizers
The author (right) with Dr. Robert Moog.
Humble to the point of self-effacement, and driven only by the desire to solve others’ problems as best he can. Yet, he was both a successful businessman and even a cult figure. In 2004, I interviewed the man who invented the synthesizer, Dr. Robert Moog, for the Danish online magazine Soundvenue. He died in August 2005, at the age of 71.