Guitarists · b. 1953

Stephan Micus

German composer

guitar
flute
steelpan
bagpipe
sitar
dungchen
kyizi
nyckelharpa
shō
shakuhachi
ney
zither
new age music

Born: 19 January 1953
Stuttgart
Country: Germany
Active: 1976–
Record labels: ECM Records, JAPO Records

Biography

Stephan Micus is a jazz musician who plays guitar, flute, steelpan and bagpipe. Stephan Micus was born on 19 January 1953 in Stuttgart. The music is usually filed under new age music. Record labels: ECM Records and JAPO Records.

Stephan Micus (; born 19 January 1953) is a German musician and composer, whose musical style is heavily influenced by his study of traditional instruments and musical techniques from Japan, India, South America, and other countries. With the exception of his album The Music of Stones (1989), he plays all the instruments on his recordings, combining styles from different countries and using the instruments in unprecedented ways in each of his pieces. He often uses layers of a single instrument to create unusual combinations of sounds. He is one of the few ECM Records artists whose records are not produced by Manfred Eicher. He has mixed instruments from around the world, or used whatever was at hand: stones, ordinary flowerpots tuned with water, and his voice. Micus plays bagpipes, Japanese bamboo flute, rabab, steel drums, and zither, among other instruments.

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