Klangwelt - Xoio

Klangwelt (sound-world or world of sound) is the musical project of Gerald Arend, a German audio-designer from Norderstedt (near Hamburg) who is working for the multimedia- and computer-games-industry. Born in 1966, he already made his first contact with electronic music in the late 70s with Jean-Michel Jarres famous Oxygene-album. More records with synthesizer-music followed, made by artists like Tangerine Dream, Michael Rother, Vangelis, Kitaro or Klaus Schulze. The more he listened to these fascinating sounds, the more he was convinced that this was the kind of music he would like to play himself. Gerald bought his first synthesizer back in 1982 and started to self-educate keyboard-playing. The first CD Weltweit was released in early 2002 and became a big success. It got great reviews from EM-magazines and WWW-sites from all over the world, tracks from the album were played in numerous radio-shows like the US-program Echoes. The end of 2003 saw the release of the second album The Age Of Numbers, an electronic journey into the fascinating world of numbers and mathematics. The second CD soon received lots of positive reviews and became a big success as well. In late summer 2006, the latest album XOIO was released. XOIO : Playful sampling-experiments, floating spherical sounds and driving beats - with his third album, Klangwelt proves how colourful electronic music can be. Each of the nine tracks sweeps the listener away into a unique sound-cosmos, refined with Klangwelts typical crystal clear timbres, dreamy harmonies and effervescent arpeggio-sequences. http://www.klangwelt.info    / ohrwerk