Hartmut Geerken

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙃𝙂𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙣: 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧, 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧, 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣, 𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢-𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧, 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧, 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧, 𝙢𝙮𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨, 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙧𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙙𝙖, 𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙗𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚-𝙗𝙚𝙚-𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙧.

During his six-year stay in Egypt in the 60's he is co-founder (together with Salah Ragab and Edu Vizvari) of the Cairo Jazz Band as well as founder and head of the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble. played in various music groups: Embryo, trio with John Tchicai and Don Moye (extensive tour of Africa) and also with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. he worked with Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Okay Termiz, Peter Kowald, Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, ect...

Today Geerken possesses one of the most comprehensive Sun Ra archives (waitawhile sun ra archives). his book omniverse sun ra (1994) ,which contains a first all-embracing discography of the musician, has meanwhile grown to be a priceless cult book. together with James Wolf from the library of congress in Washington DC , he's editor of the recently published collected poems and philosophical works of Sun Ra (the immeasurable equation 2005).This is Geerken 1st ever solo release (a major event indeed !) and it was recorded under the influence of magic mushrooms (dried amanita muscaria). one of the instruments played here is Sun Ra's Sun harp (a Bulgarian bandura).