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Saturday, January 04, 2014

RIP Thomas Kurzhals

Moog Behind the Iron Curtain - Interview & performance with Thomas Kurzhals

Uploaded on Apr 12, 2009 MoogMusicInc·256 videos

"In a short interview, mixed with performance clips, Thomas Kurzhals, keyboardist for the East German rock band KARAT talks about his experiences playing Moog in the days before the Berlin Wall came down."

moog synth solo, part 1, Musikmesse 2009

Uploaded on Apr 5, 2009 Travis Nobles·22 videos

"thomas kurzhals plays an awesome moog solo"


We lost Thomas Kurzhals this past Thursday on January 2.

via Wikipedia: "Thomas Kurzhals (13 December 1953 – 2 January 2014) was a German keyboardist, composer and rock musician, best known as a member of the bands Stern-Combo Meißen and Karat.  Kurzhals died from liver cirrhosis on 2 January 2014, aged 60, in Glauchau, Saxony.[1]"

You can find his work on discogs here and a tribute page here: http://www.overlight-tonstudio.de.

The above interview is from Moog Music.

Below is a video tribute from Dirk Kroegers.


RIP THOMAS KURZHALS Published on Jan 2, 2014 Dirk Kroegers·2,611 videos

"Thomas Kurzhals, geboren am 13. Dezember 1953 in Ronneburg bei Gera, spielte jahrelang bei der Stern Combo Meißen und bei KARAT. Heute gehört ihm ein eigenes Tonstudio vor den Toren von Berlin. In seiner musikalischen Karriere hat Thomas Meilensteine der Deutschen Rockgeschichte geschrieben.RIP 01.01.2014
http://www.deutsche-mugge.de/zeitzeug..." [Googlish - scroll when you get there]

""Thomas Kurzhals, born on 13 December 1953 in Ronneburg in Gera, played for years at the Stern Combo Meissen and at KARAT. Nowadays own recording studio he owns on the outskirts of Berlin. During his musical career, Thomas milestones wrote the German rock history. RIP 01/01/2014"

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