Peter Michael Hamel
As a young man, Hamel studied music, psychology, and sociology in his native Germany. He then spent three extensive periods in Asia, where his studies of Eastern musical traditions (particularly Tibetan and Indian) had a profound effect not only on his compositional style but on his views concerning Western music as a whole. Hamel shared his unconventional insights on music and its place in society in his influential book Through Music to the Self. First published in 1976, the treatise discusses the transformational effects of music through the ages and calls for a more spiritual approach to composition in 20th-century Western music. While many of his concepts fueled the American new-age movement, Hamel's music is a far cry from the good-natured doodling often associated with that genre. Though some of his works are more successful than others, they all exhibit the grace and intelligence of classical music, the spontaneity of jazz, the hypnotic qualities of Far Eastern styles, and (quite often) the relentless drive of American minimalist techniques.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Keys of Life: Piano Music from Celestial Harmonies
Florian Fricke, Hans Otte, Peter Michael Hamel, Terry Riley, Herbert Henck, Cecil Lytle
Klassiek - Released by Celestial Harmonies on 1 jan. 1983
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Hamel: Transition
Klassiek - Released by Kuckuck Schallplatten on 1 jan. 1983
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Hamel: String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4, String Trio
Klassiek - Released by Celestial Harmonies on 1 jul. 2007
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Hamel: De Visione Dei (nach Nikolaus Cusanus)
Pop - Released by Celestial Harmonies on 1 jan. 2001
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Hamel: Let It Play, Selected Pieces 1979-1983
Klassiek - Released by Kuckuck Schallplatten on 1 jan. 1979
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Hamel: Colours of Time
Peter Michael Hamel, Ulrich Kraus
Klassiek - Released by Kuckuck Schallplatten on 1 jan. 1980
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Hamel: Organum
Klassiek - Released by Kuckuck Schallplatten on 1 jan. 1986
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Hamel: Bardo
Klassiek - Released by Kuckuck Schallplatten on 1 jan. 1981
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Peter Michael Hamel, Thomas Gundermann
Klassiek - Released by Schneeball on 28 feb. 2014
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Hamel: Vom Klang des Lebens (Of the Sound of Life)
Klassiek - Released by Celestial Harmonies on 1 jan. 2007
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