About Aphrodite are a true one - off, they play at festivals, concert halls, underground techno clubs and events, compose music for films and radio plays, cooperate with art galleries and theatre productions and create sounds as logos for companies and personal names.
Gilda Razani
theremin / soma pipe electronic wind instrument / saxophone/ aerophone
Gilda Razani is one of the few professional theremin players. She is part of vocal group the Manhattan Transfer’s Grammy-nominated new recording ‚Fifty‘.
Aside from her classical playing style, she goes in her compositions and improvisations to the contemporary boarders of her instrument. With electronic effects, she generates contemporary E-Guitar-like sounds in brute hard-rock aesthetics next to ecstatic Sinus sound creations, spherical choirs and tenderest noise minimalisms.
Gilda has a master’s degree in Saxophone.
Hanzō Wanning
piano / synthesizers/ electronics
Hanzō Wanning has a master’s degree in Jazzpiano and Classical Composition Hilversum/NL.
He likes to improvise, to compose, to produce a wide stylistic range of modern music, using his piano, many synths and electronic devices in a very personal way.
Reviews
Music itself.de
… convinces with great composition and sound, one of the most fascinating duos of recent years. It is hard to escape the hypnotic charm of the music, which is both structured and complex. Highly recommended! (18/20)
NRWjazznet.de
What Hans and Gilda achieve in this album can only be called an immersive audio experience. Out of melancholy undertones springs music full of tonal fantasy and lyrical depth, and behind the duo’s conscious and animated musical freedom lies a wealth of in-depth knowledge and experience”
Music reviews.de
… an album as brilliant as the stars in the sky, Membran Music takes ‘Polaris‘ as its theme. The instrumental cosmos, with Theremin, piano, soprano saxophone and live electronics moves from classical music to progressive jazz, but at the same time always retaining its dark colouring. It is unique in the same way as ABOUT APHRODITE! (13/15)
Projects
Shirin Again
Gilda Razani theremin/ saxophone/ soma pipe electronic wind intrument
Hanzō Wanning piano/ synthesizer/ electronics
Mario Simon visuals
Shirin Again is a musical epic through the world’s great symphony with station Iran.
With thrilling beats, unusual sounds, touching moments and magical video installations, the artists Gilda Razani, Hanzō Wanning and Mario Simon take you on a euphoric and energetic sound journey and the sky is deep dark heavy and sweet!
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Future Memories
Gilda Razani
theremin / soma pipe electronic wind instrument / aerophone
Hanzō Wanning
piano / synthesizers / electronics
Jaime Moraga Vasquez
drums / percussion / voice
The musicians with Gilda on her theremin, her effects and the electronic wind instrument Soma Pipe play the terrific combination of rock/ dance/ world and electronica with devotion.
With cineastic soundscapes, hypnotic drones, gentle athmospheres and thrilling beats , About Aphrodite go on a euphoric and energetic sound journey, inspired by the great symphony of the world and the sky is deep, dark, heavy and sweet!
Recording ‚Future Memories ‚ released 2020 by Floating World Records/ London
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Treibjagd
Gilda Razani theremin/ saxophone/ soma pipe electronic wind intrument
Hanzō Wanning piano/ synthesizer/ electronics
Analog sounds made in the moment, hypnotic drones and melodies are driven through the great symphony of the world by thrilling deep dance rhythms. The artists Gilda Razani and Hanzō Wanning take you on a euphoric and energetic sound journey with their liveset and the sky is deep, dark, heavy and sweet!
Recordings ‚Ocean Lily‘ 2014 and ‚Faktor X‘ 2015, released by Aztek Electronic Music, Melbourne/AUS.
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Festivals and Tours
They performed at many festivals arround the world among other things at the Leverkusener Jazzdays Germany, Jazzkaarfestival Estonia, Juicy beats Germany, Jazz Province Festival Russia, Afterhills Festival Romania, Spirit of the Woodstockfestival Italia, Fusionfestival Germany, Les Digitales Suisse, Skandaloes Festival Germany, Klangtherapie Festival Germany, Tropen Tango Festival Germany, Zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival Germany.
Compositions and Productions
Gilda and Hanzō are composer and producer.
All recordings with her bands Sub,vison, About Aphrodite and About Aphrodite are their own compositions and productions including
* Duo live, Munichrecords 2002
* Bazaar, Traumtonrecords 2005
* Remembrance, Timelinerecords 2009
* Nashira, ESC Records 2012
* Ocean Lily, Aztek Electronic Music 2014
* Factor X, Aztek Electronic Music 2015
* Polaris, Floating World Records 2018
* Future Memories, Floating World Records 2020
Filmmusic
Gilda Razani and Hanzō Wanning are working for German television.
They have composed and produced numerous film scores and radioplays for the WDR (West German Broadcasting, Cologne)
* #weltuntergang: Der Sommer, der ins Wasser fiel , 2015
* #jesuischarlie: Ein Hashtag und die Folgen , 2015
* #fluechtlinge – was sind wir für ein Land , 2016
* #germanwings – die Katastrophe. Rückblick und Gedenken , 2016
* #land_unter-Der Unwetter-Sommer 2016
* #monsterstau – Stillstand ist unser Leben! 2016
* #koelnhbf , 2016
* schrecklichschön: weihnachten, 2016
* schrecklichschön: geschenke, geschenke ,2016
* Die schönsten Mausmomente , 2017
* Die Wunde meiner Stadt – Asli, Duisburg und die Loveparade, 2018
* #jahrhundertsommer – Sonne satt und Schattenseiten, 2018
*#KlimaAlarm: Sind wir noch zu retten?, 2021
Radioplay
* Mit Volldampf durch die Wüste, WDR Kiraka, 2018, nominated for the german radioplayprice 2018
* Anne und die Bankräuber, WDR Kiraka 2019
* Der Weihnachtsmann – Auflauf, WDR Kiraka 2020
* Marie Ka Ih – Schluß mit Gurkensalat, WDR Kiraka 2022
