artist“ for such renomated guitar makers as Parker Guitars in Chicago where he is one of the 18 worldwide acclaimed artists forming the line-up which includes such stars as Joe Walsh ( Eagles), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Larry Coryell and Adrian Belew (Talking Heads).
Charles Blackledge was born in Jackson/Miss. (USA).Living in Nürnberg, Charles was playing over 20 years with the worldmusic-band ARGILE. The band was touring all over Europe and made it even to Africa - in Rom, Genua, Mailand, Prag, Krakau, Warschau, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Barcelona, London u.a.
Charly worked together with musicians like
Ramesh Shotam from Southindia, Sona Diabate and Famadou Konate from Guinee, Sahra Ndagire/Uganda, Farafina (Burkina Faso), Franz Hajak (Nürnberg Bluesking)
Biboul Darouiche (Kamerun), Barry Sangare (Mali), Ray Brandige (James Brown), Torsten Goods, Sigi Finkel, El Houssaine Kili, Achim
Göttert, Dieter Weberpalz, u.v.m.
Matze Schaefer
Matze Schaefer joined Eugen de Ryck´s band for the first time in the beginning of the 9-t´s to play a big Festival in Regensburg/Bavaria with Chick Corea´s and Dollar Brand´s Fred Braceful on drums. At that time Matze studied bass in Munich where Eugen de Ryck an Fred Braceful lived. Matze went to an Audition and was imidiately in charge as the new Eugen de Ryck- bassplayer `93 he played on "Eugen de Ryck & the funkomatic Hippies" Album "take you higher". After a big fight with the Record Company, Eugen de Ryck continued playing with Matze and produced and performed with his new Project "Universal Supersession".
Matze left to the US of A. New York and later Austin became his homebases. From there he went on stage with musicians from Defunkt, Foreigner, Enrice Iglesias.... Met Lou Reed and many others.
He found out that big stars in Europe are playing Pizza Restaurants in the States.
Now he´s back in Europe and continues jamming and producing with Eugen de Ryck and Charles Blackledge.
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