Blackthorn Blossom Productions

Happy to announce my new band Hard+Soul. Hard+Soul is a cover band from Pforzheim, southern Germany. Around singer Natasha we bring rock and soul titles not every cover band is playing, delivering straight beat and multivoice backing vocals. With me on bass, Thorsten on drums, Franz and Gert on guitars, we now have a set of approx. two hours and are ready to rumble. This promo track is from our rehearsal room, looking for gigs in region Karlsruhe / Pforzheim Germany. Franz (g

After having stuff more on the heavier side of music, this time I was experimenting with my AKAI MKplus midi keyboard and some more mellow e-piano sounds. Vocals had been multiplied to a choir with new vocal synthesizer functionality in Moises and we ended up in a classical Christian contemporary worship song. Wasn't ment to be like that, but it was a nice experience, learing some new stuff and entered another musical category. ON SOLID GROUND by Blackthorn Blossom

When I look into my DISCOGRAPHY I can see an endless list of 126 songs, that I wrote or at least co-wrote in the last 40 years of my musical activities. Starting with my first band Czaika Ranch back in the nineteeneighties I developed as a musician with songs over a wide musical spectrum. For me it is fun to now and then listen back into the cataloge and see how things developed. Probably you also like to dive into the Blackthorn Blossom universe - I built two collections fo

With new equipment (Tonex Bass Preamp) there are always new song ideas. Using a fat Ampeg bass driven sound was the ground work for the new song " Ruins ", once again something dark in odd times, but as usual still with some hope within.

Played two concerts with my gospelchoir GetUp, part in the band with my bass, part singing in the choir. Went well, will be the setup for the next years.

Gospelnight was great, 6 choirs from region Karlsruhe. For me quite a lot of work with lighting technology, playing bass for GetUp and mass choir as well as audio recording. Currently in the process of mixing the multitrack recording in my home studio.

The 6-string bass is back again. Next to building a quickly growing song catalogue with the cover band "Hard&Soul" I joined in July 2025, I took over the bass in my gospel choir as a substitute for our base player. A lot to rehearse these days, therefore no new songs.