About Me
Lëtzebuergesch
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About me
Like so many Luxembourg musicians, I have started my musical career in
the Luxembourg band scene. In the mid-90s, I joined the Luxembourg rock
band Lifewire as a keyboarder. At this point my songs had rare, if any,
classical elements.
Through my growing fondness for bands like Queen as well as symphonic-
metal bands, my path led me more and more into the classical direction,
only to end up at the Conservatoire de Musique in Esch/Alzette, where I took
music and piano lessons.
Lifewire was busy in the years to come: a number of gigs, both in
Luxembourg and abroad; and the release of a first CD (”Kivas”). We
represented Luxembourg at the Emergenza-Festival in Barcelona (E), until
we finally had the tremendous opportunity to record our second CD ("Burnin Tears") at the Mountain
Studios in Montreux (CH) with David Richards, the producer of Queen, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and
many more.
It was a great honor to take part in the production and to see David at work. Needless to say that I took
the advantage to watch his every move.
My fondest memory is being able to do the piano recordings, which I played on the same grand piano
Freddie Mercury played on various Queen tracks a few decades before. The highlight was a duet with the
cellist Nathalie Manser for “La merveille”, a song stemming from an impromptu piano improvisation
between two recordings and which therefore could not feature on the CD.
Extract from “La merveille”
Lifewire (copyrights) feat. Nathalie Manser
Cello: Nathalie Manser
Piano: Christian Krier
Shortly after Montreux in 2002-2003, we recorded and produced a video clip at the castle in Neuerburg
(D) together with director Pier Hausemer, before the band members of Lifewire went their separate ways in
2003.
But things were far from over. In spring 2005 a new line-up gave life to Pale Obsession, a band which
quickly developed a slightly different musical style. 3 out of the 4 tracks of our first CD “Songs of Love and
Death” made it to the Luxembourg Charts. Many concerts followed in next few years to come, both in
Luxembourg and abroad; we performed amongst others at “Rock um Knuedler”, “Rock am Park”, “Tivoli
Rock Festival” in Sweden with the Swedish power-metal band Sabaton. We were also very fortunate to
open for various big acts, like the Dutch symphonic-metal band Epica and the German Tokio Hotel.
In 2010-2011 we recorded our next CD “Made of Glass”. Stefan Helleblad (gitarrist with Within Temptation)
came to Luxembourg specifically to record in our practice facilities. Yet again I had the opportunity to
watch an experienced sound technician at work, but this time in a more familiar environment.
Extract from “The ghost and the sadness”
Copyrights: Pale Obsession
Arrangement & Opnahm (klassesch Deeler): Christian Krier
CD-Opnahm & Produktioun: Stefan Helleblad
Extract from “War”
Copyrights: Pale Obsession
Arrangement & Opnahm (klassesch Deeler): Christian Krier
CD-Opnahm & Produktioun: Stefan Helleblad
Quote from Backstage Pro: “... With the rocking guitar riffs, overwhelming orchestral parts, mixed to
catchy, melancholic piano and keyboard melodies and surrounded by Joe MAY’s uncommon and
outstanding voice, PALE OBSESSION have found their very own sound which will be kept in mind ! The
perfect mixture between dark rock and bombastic melodic parts opens them a way to a very broad range
of audience...”
Pale Obsession´s musical style also gave me the possibility to introduce more classical elements and
integrate this type of arrangements in our music. A further step in this direction ...
2012 saw the end of Pale Obsession too. There was a deep lack of common interests between band
members and hence there was no more reason to keep the band alive. All the band members are
somehow still carrying on with music in their own specific way.
After using these last years intensively to independently specialize in various areas of sound and mixing
techniques, I started to concentrate solely on film music and its various facets in 2017. As a result I have
published this on this website; something I had wished for a long time.
While I managed to release some productions in 2018, I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge in
orchestration and to take correspondence courses in mixing and orchestral mixing.
After the big project “Die Eichenthron-Annalen” as well as the remix of the track “Memories” have been
released, I am actually - among other projects - in the process of completing the Audio Engineer (Hofa
college) courses. February 2021, I have won one a jury prize for my mix a rock track in the HOFA Xmas
Mix Contest. Out of 1250 participants, I have qualified under the top ten.
After the more technical and general audio engineering-courses, an apprenticeship in Cinematic
Orchestration via ThinkSpace Education is already planned for 2021.
Hereby a list of the different courses since then:
Mix By Design by Jason Moss (Behind The Speakers) - 2019
Mixing Low-End by Jason Moss (Behind The Speakers) - 2019
Vocal Mixing Masterclass by Jason Moss (Behind The Speakers) - 2019
Orchestral Mixing by Jake Jackson (ThinkSpace Education) - 2019
Mix With The Masters - 2019/2020
HOFA Audio Engineer by HOFA - 2020/2021
Cinematic Orchestration by Guy Michelmore (ThinkSpace Education) - 2021
I enjoy it enormously and I hope you enjoy it too.
Christian K.
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