Cinematic Theremin Sound / Hypnotic Grooves & Drones / Rock / Jazz/ Dance / Electronica/ Composer/ Producer

The works of the german based duo range from concerts  Future Memories and Membran Music, film music scores, radioplays and audio visual installations The Projection to techno live sets Treibjagd.

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.

Hans Wanning

piano  / synthesizers/ electronics

Hans 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)

Soul Experience

Future Memories

Gilda Razani
theremin / soma pipe electronic wind instrument / aerophone
Hans 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 jazz/rock, dance 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

Treibjagd

Gilda Razani   theremin/ saxophone/ soma pipe electronic wind intrument
Hans 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 technoid rhythms. The artists Gilda Razani and Hans Wanning take you  on a euphoric and energetic sound journey with their liveset and the sky is deep, dark, heavy and sweet!

Festivals  Fusionfestival (DE) , Les Digitales (CH), Spirit of the Woodstockfestival (IT),, Skandaloes Festival ( DE), Klangtherapie Festival (DE). Tropen Tango Festival (DE), Afterhills Festival (ROU), Zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival (DE).

Recordings  ‚Ocean Lily‘ 2014 and  ‚Faktor X‘ 2015, released by Aztek Electronic Music,  Melbourne/AUS.

The Projection

This audiovisual act is the extended version of About Aphrodite. Gilda Razani and Hans Wanning  perform together with  Mario Simon and Jan Voges, both media artists in residence at the theatre Dortmund.

Membran Music

Gilda Razani
theremin / soma pipe electronic wind instrument / soprano saxophone
Hans Wanning
piano / synthesizer / live electronics

About Aphrodite//Membran Music is an exciting combination of classical, film and electronic music, jazz improvisation, and atmospheric soundscapes.

Recording  ‚Polaris‘  released 2018 by Floating World Records/ London/ UK

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 Hans are composer and producer.
All recordings with her bands Sub,vison 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 Hans Wanning are working for German television.
Since 2015 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

LIVE

Datum Stadt Location Land
14/04/23 Gelsenkirchen in der Nähe von Nordsternturm DE
Zeit: 19:30 . Future Memories Blind Date Concert
25/03/23 Bochum Kunstmuseum DE
Zeit: 19:30 . Future Memories Lions – Kulturfrühling
04/03/23 Dortmund Amtshaus Mengede DE
Zeit: 20:00 . Future Memories More information
10/02/23 Kiel Medusa DE
Zeit: 20:00 . Future Memories Buy Tickets
09/02/23 Hamburg MS Stubnitz DE
Zeit: 20:30 . Future Memories Buy Tickets
15/10/22 Bochum Kulturrat DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information
09/09/22 Gelsenkirchen Werkstatt DE
Zeit: 20:00 . special guest Christian Hammer More information
02/09/22 Essen Südrock Nachtkneipe DE
Zeit: 20:00 . special guest Christian Hammer More information
02/07/22 Duisburg Kreativküche DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information
24/06/22 Bochum Kulturrat DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information
29/04/22 Dortmund Domicil DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information
26/03/22 Dortmund Zeche Zollern DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information
17/03/22 Oberhausen Gdanska DE
Zeit: 20:00 . More information

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