Roland Pöntinen | ru

Как известно, немецкий пауэр-металлический квинтет HELLOWEEN славится не только своими песнями, в сочинении которых, кстати, принимают участие все пятеро, но и сольными проектами музыкантов группы. Одним из первых на этом поприще отличился гитарист Роланд Грапов (Roland Grapow), девять лет назад занявший в HELLOWEEN место Кая Хансена (Kai Hansen), а до этого игравший в группе RAMPAGE. Было бы странно, если бы Грапов не сделал основной упор на каноны классической музыки, страстным поклонником которой он является практически с детства. Даже оформление дебютного сольника Роланда "The Four Seasons Of Life" недвусмысленно указывает на его увлечение нетленными произведениями классиков — примерно так выглядят обложки...

Roland Kayn (3rd September 1933 in Reutlingen, Germany - 6th January 2011) was a composer of electro-acoustic music. Kayn studied in Stuttgart and Esslingen. He was also was a student of Boris Blacher in Berlin, Josef Rufer, Fritz Winckel, and Oskar Sala. In 1960 he was awarded the "Rompreis", after that he lived in Rome & Venice. In 1970 he started to work for the Goethe-Institute in Amsterdam. From 1995 until his death, he lived in a remote country house in the Netherlands. Besides composing for instruments (mainly the organ and the piano), he worked mostly on electronic and tape...

Roland Sandor, a fresh newcomer to the electronic dance music scene, was born in Romania, but spent his early childhood in Austria. At the age of 11, he moved to Hungary where he is living now. “After all these changes in my life, I have such a different definition of home. I found home in those people who I love and who are always around me. That means really home for me. No matter where you’re living right now or where you were born…” The story began in Austria. As a kid, he was watching artists on music channels who...