Schorsch Hampel

In recent years an astonishing renaissance of Bavarian rock has caught the awareness of media and audiences all over Germany. Artists and bands of very varied subgenres have shook up the music scene with their refreshing use of Bavarian dialect in their lyrics. One of the central musicians of this movement is the Munich based blues guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Schorsch Hampel (Schorsch & de Bagasch), a true original and a real character, who for decades has unerringly followed his very own artistic paths. That the stylistic foundations of his music are not to be found in his homeland Bavaria, but far, far away, across the Atlantic becomes impressively clear with his first solo album. On this record Schorsch has assembled more than a dozen instrumentals, the finest of those compositions “which have piled up over the years in my shadow repertory, somehow urging to finally come to light one day.”