Six Historical Concerts

Six Historical Concerts

Selected concert highlights from over 40 years of Andreas Vollenweider & Friends:
- Caverna Magica live in Zurich 1983
- Down to the Moon live in Tokyo 1987
- Live in Santiago de Chile 1995
- Wolkenstein - a symphonic mind movie 1998
- The Cosmopoly Sessions 2001 - Part 1+2
- 35 Years of Andreas Vollenweider & Friends, Montreux Jazz Festival 2011 - Part 1+2

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Six Historical Concerts
  • AVAF 1983 "Caverna Magica" Live

    Music from the album Caverna Magica live with:
    Andreas Vollenweider; harp, ocarina, vocals
    Walter Keiser; drums
    Pedro Haldemann; percussion
    Joerg Peter "Büdi" Siebert; winds, keys, percussion

    It is one of the rare video recordings of a live concert in those early years. This was mainly due to th...

  • AVAF in Tokyo 1987

    live at the Japanese TV NHK, Tokyo, February 1987
    Andreas Vollenweider: harps
    Walter Keiser: drums
    Pedro Haldemann: percussion, keys
    Jon Otis: percussion
    Christoph Stiefel: keys
    Matthias Ziegler: winds

    Live at the Japanese TV NHK, Tokyo, February 1987
    Andreas Vollenweider: harps
    Walter Keiser: d...

  • AVAF in Santiago de Chile 1995

    "Hi - all you friends of our music! Be prepared for a very intense high energy treat ;-)
    
It was 1995 that we played in Santiago de Chile on our tour to South America for the album KRYPTOS. A very special concert! What an energy, what a band, what an audience!

    The heartbeat of the music, as alwa...

  • "Wolkenstein" - a symphonic mind movie

    with the ZKO Zurich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by André Bellmont,
    at the Fraumunster Cathedral, Zurich Switzerland, September 6, 1998
    special guests: Walter Keiser, Christoph Stiefel, Matthias Ziegler

    "This was my first large symphonic project. Ever since I can remember, this has been a dream...

  • COSMOPOLY Session AVAF Part 1 - 2001

    at the AVO session, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2001,
    with Andreas Vollenweider (harps) and Abdullah Ibrahim (African Piano)

    "The music of these two concerts we called the "COSMOPOLY sessions”. It was our main project from about 2000 to 2002. The term COSMOPOLY was a kind of umbrella for ma...

  • COSMOPOLY Session AVAF Part 2 - 2001

    at the AVO session, Basel, Switzerland, November 4, 2001,
    with Andreas Vollenweider, David Lindley, Abdullah Ibrahim, Xiaojing Wang, Walter Keiser, Andi Pupato, Valentin Kessler

    "Part 2 continues with more thematic improvisations. I like to use the term because it describes how, starting from a...

  • 35 Years Anniversary Concert 2011 - Part 1

    The evening was dedicated to the history of this unique music, which after its debut at the Montreux Festival in 1981, took the whole world by storm and can still inspire audiences to this day. The excellent performance of the musicians unleashed all the magic of this musical world. The protagoni...

  • 35 Years Anniversary Concert 2011 - Part 2

    Like in the first part, the protagonists were drummer Walter Keiser, percussionist Andi Pupato, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kueffer, Steff la Cheffe on vocals and human beatbox, guitarist Oliver Keller, Sandro Friedrich on the ethnic wind instruments, Greg Galli keyboards, as well as the South A...