Martin Siewert (born 11 May 1972) is a German guitarist and

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Career

Siewert has been living in Vienna since the age of 10. He studied guitar at the

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. As a guitarist, he started his public performances in 1995. In his early performances, he played with Herwig Gradischnig,

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, Franz Hautzinger, and his band Duckbilled Platypus. With this band, he recorded two albums for the label Extraplatte. He began to separated himself from the jazz idiom and developed an abstract sound on guitar. He became a member of Efzeg with Burkhard Stangl and Hauf and Komfort. He invited Dafeldecker, Hinteregger,

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and Tony Buck to the group Komfort. In the group Trapist, he played with Joe Williamson and

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. On ''My Kingdom for a Lullably'', he played with Christof Kurzmann,

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, and Billy Roisz, the video artist of Efzeg. He was a member of the guitar quartet SSSD with Taku Sugimoto, Werner Dafeldecker, and Burkhard Stangl. He has worked with

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, Kammerflimmer Kollektief,

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, and

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. He has composed music for, ballet, film, theater,

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recordings, and

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Discography

* ''Komfort 2000'' (Charhizma, 1999) * ''Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Fennesz/O'Rourke/Drumm/Siewert'' (Charhizma, 1999) * ''Just In Case You Are Bored. So Are We''. (dOc recordings, 2002) * ''Highway My Friend'' (hatOLOGY, 2002) * ''Die Instabilität Der Symmetrie'' (dOc recordings, 2003) * ''Too Beautiful to Burn'' (Erstwhile, 2003) * ''No Need to Be Lonesome'' (Mosz, 2004) * ''3 Suits and a Violin'' with Christian Weber, Michael Moser,

Hans Koch Hans Koch (16 August 1893 – 24 April 1945) was a German lawyer, a member of the Confessional Church and a member of the German resistance against Nazism. Koch was born in Bartenstein, East Prussia (modern Bartoszyce, Poland), he graduated ...

, Christian Wolfarth, (hatOLOGY, 2006) * ''(Fake) The Facts'' (Editions Mego, 2011) * ''The Peeled Eye'' (Shameless, 2015) * ''Live at Wirr'' (Trost, 2016) * ''Hoverload'' (Chmafu Nocords, 2016)

References

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