Nautilus

About

Residence:
Waltrop (Dortmund) / Hambrücken (Karlsruhe) / Kirchlauter (Bamberg)

Instruments:
Martin Ludwig (keyboard,synthesizer,sequencer)
Ralf Obel (sampler,synthesizer,sequencer)
Werner Strätz (e-guitar)

Important steps along the way:
Founded 1998 by Martin Ludwig and Ralf Obel in cooperation with EROC (ex-Grobschnitt) and guitar-player Werner Strätz,who played in diverse Rock- and Popbands before. Ralf Obel is known as 'Aquarius' (1994 - 1997) with four CD-releases. Since january 2000 he's becoming a member of Nautilus. The first bigger award is the 'Schwingungen-Preis' for the 'best CD of the year' (Solar Moon)

Musical influences:
Pink Floyd, Grobschnitt, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Rüdiger Lorenz, Peter Green, Rory Gallagher

Personal motto for life:
"Am dunkelsten ist es kurz vor der Dämmerung" (Martin)
"Irgendwie geht's immer weiter" (Ralf)
"Ten beers after!" (Werner)

Discography:
1998 "Rising Balloon" (Nautilus-Records)
1999 "Underground Visions" (soundline-records)
2001 "Solar Moon" (Prudence)
2002 "North Pole Pilgrim" (Prudence)
2004 "In Search Of Castaways" (Prudence)
2007 "Along The Winding Road" (Prudence)