Thomas Kessler Group

Addicted since 1962. 

TK’s life with music. 

Biography in reverse order: 

2019

• • TRANCE GROOVE reunion and live tour
• • HEIN+KLEIN release ‚In my Head‘
• • CRYSTIN release ‚Seeing Clearly‘ 

2018

• • ITEMdigital, foundation of TK’s own record label
• • debut concert ‚loopSOCIETY‘
• • ,Le Son des Couleurs’  album release and multi media show at Muziek Biennale, D/NL

2017

• • concerts with Drums Off Chaos and Helmut Zerlett
• • debut concert ,Ingenhag-Heinze-Kessler’

2015

• • ,Le Son des Couleurs’ live at ,8th Hamburger Architektursommer’, Freie Akademie der Künste
• • ,GOLDMAN live at the BLUE SHELL‘ - special vinyl release in memoriam GOLDMAN-founder Stefan Krachten († 2014, Sept 16) - a charity project to the benefit of the Elisabeth Hospice in Lohmar, Stefan’s last home. (co-composer, producer, musician)
• • VDT [Verband Deutscher Tonmeister] membership

2014

• • live concerts with ,GOLDMAN’
• • ,The Truth of Ghost Dog‘ | ‘Die Farbe der Sonne’ -  ,GOLDMAN’ live releases, all digital platforms (co-producer)
• • ,Spring Summer Fall – Tunes from a Lifetime’ by Ulli Boegershausen - CD album, High Res Audio 24/96, all digital platforms (producer and mastering engineer)

2013

• • ,On The Outside / Looking In’, GOLDMAN double vinyl album and CD (musician, co-composer)
• • studio work with Helmut Zerlett
• • ,Kine Em’ remix for Sivan Perwer [label: Tayart] (producer)

2012

• • ,Piano Diaries’ solo album, limited CD edition
• • concerts with ‚GOLDMAN’ [w/ Stefan Krachten, Mel Collins, Juergen Dahmen, Konstantin Wienstroer, Helian Schulte]
• • concerts with Helmut Zerlett Quartet
• • ,Le Son des Couleurs’ live debut [with Bernd Winterschladen]

2011

• • ‚Piano Diaries’ Youtube video project
• • concerts with ‚Frühling in Braziers’ [line-up: Rosko Gee, Stefan Krachten, Juergen Dahmen, Dirk Herweg]
• • Sungha Jung album ‚Irony’ (co-producer / with Ulli Boegershausen)
• • Crystin ‚Moon River’, ‚Something Beautiful’ (co-producer / with Crystin)
• • Dead Guitars ‚You and I‘ (guest musician)

2010

• • Blauw Associates EP ‚Manila Bay Sketchbook’ featuring Lucian Zäyn (as producer/composer)
• • ‚Le Son des Couleurs’ -  a multi media project with Bernd Winterschladen
• • Sungha Jung debut album ‚Perfect Blue’ (co-producer / with Ulli Boegershausen])
• • Razoof ‚Inhale’ (co-producer / with Razoof])
• • Razoof ‚Sun Salutation’ (remixer, co-producer)

2009 

• • Trance Groove album 'Playing with the Chelsea Girls' (as musician, co-composer, co-producer / with Stefan Krachten and Helmut Zerlett)
• • Peak Of Normal album ‚Foam’ (guest musician, co-composer)

2008 

• • Trance Groove album ,Orange'  (co-composer and musician)
• • Score music performances with Andy Warhol movie ,Chelsea Girls' [USA 1966], Cologne Müngersdorfer Stadion 
• • Formation of ,CFN Cloud Factory Network’, multimedia Deep House project with DJ Heli and Udo Hanten (†) [HAN10]
• • TKaudiotreatments^SM [signature mastering] launched at newly built ‚p.fort base‘

2007

• • Recording sessions with Nighthawks [Reiner Winterschladen, Dal Martino] 
• • Concerts with Drums Off Chaos [Jaki Liebezeit, Manos Tsangaris, Olek Gelba, Reiner Linke, Maf Retter]
• • ,The Liquid EP’ solo album [digital release]

2006

• • Collaboration with Brazilian/French artist Luzia Simons, video installation ,Stockage 0'

2005 

• • ,Egolution', 3rd solo album, extended re-release of the 1998 album ‚Ego’ - Japan release, later worldwide

2003 ff

• • ,Trance Groove’ live tour

2002 ff

• • ,Trance Club’ sessions with Stefan Krachten  [The Unknown Cases, Trance Groove, Django Edwards], with Mel Collins [King Crimson], Rosko Gee [Can, Traffic] and many others...
• • Studio recordings with Wolfgang Fluer [YAMO, ex-Kraftwerk]
• • launch of  ‚p.fort base’ digital studio 

2000

• • 'Memory of the Waters' documentary opera, DISSIDENTEN co-production with US-composer Gordon Sherwood [New York Symphonics], Charlie Mariano, and The Danubian Orchestra and Choir [Bratislava]
• • Composer and musician with UK  saxplayer Clive Stevens [Manfred Mann, Billy Cobham, Gilberto Gil, Africa Bambaataa] 'Millenium Jams'

1998

• • ‚Ego': solo CD

1995

• • 'On Earth': first solo album, recorded at newly built hybrid analog/digital studio, worldwide release

1994 - 2001

• • DISSIDENTEN studio recordings [,Instinctive Traveler’, ,Live in Europe’, ‚2001 – A Worldbeat Odyssey’] and European live tour [festivals: Roskilde, Glastonbury, Montreux, Rome, Budapest, Madrid, Barcelona...]

1991

• • Studio recordings and CD album ,April’, with Ulli Boegershausen and Reinhold Westerheide

1986 - 94

• • Thomas Kessler Group, numerous concerts and recordings
• • CD releases: ,Thomas Kessler Group’ [1990] and ,Untitled’ [1992]

1984-93

• • Peter Behrends School of Architecture Duesseldorf - studied Architecture and Interior Design, Award by the Federal Association of the German Cement Industry

1970 ff

• • Musical education: classical piano, composing, jazz harmonics 
• • Teachers and mentors: Ruth Ohlwein (†), Ali Haurand (†), Rob van den Broeck (†). John Taylor (†). Tomasz Ochalski, Juergen Dahmen

1962

• • born in Viersen/Germany