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15-572: Schneeball may refer to: Schneeball (record label) Schneeball (pastry) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Schneeball . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schneeball&oldid=933114445 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

30-418: A living for themselves. The start of APRIL Records was extraordinarily successful and attracted much attention. After CBS threatened to take legal action, its name was changed to “Schneeball” [“Snowball”] in 1977. The situation was quite difficult, but samplers entitled “April ist Schneeball” [“April is Snowball”] enabled it to remain recognizable in the music and media landscapes. The name was chosen to express

45-483: A music documentary film “Vagabundenkarawane” [“Caravan of Vagabonds”] by Werner Penzel and Nico Humpert. EMBRYO's dissidents hived off, joined forces with Hartmut Bremer, and co-founded the EXIL [EXILE] label, likewise at INDIGO. Christian Burchard formed EMBRYO anew with different personnel. Sparifankal switched to a new label and a new distributor. A great die-off of the pioneering German bands began, and no one wept to see

60-453: A new cooperative project by the musicians from the various bands. This showed that a mutual willingness existed to collaborate beyond the horizons of each individual band. The distribution structure became increasingly independent, but this autonomy unfortunately proved detrimental to the interests of the producing artists. Consequently, Efa and INDIGO Musikvertrieb [INDIGO Music Distribution] separated in 1992. Schneeball's most productive era

75-417: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Schneeball (record label) Embryo , Missus Beastly, Sparifankal, Ton Steine Scherben and Julius Schittenhelm decided to take their fate into their own hands in 1976. Setting themselves apart from the phonograph industry, they founded their own record company (APRIL Records) and cooperatively organized

90-643: Is one of the first European musicians who dared to seriously explore the oud and liberated it from exoticism and Orientalism ." During his 50-year career, Bunka recorded and played concerts with numerous musical groups, and also composed soundtracks for movies. A few weeks before his death, he played with the Munich-based group Jisr (Arabic for 'bridge') at concerts in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. Bunka died of cancer on 12 June 2022, in Munich at

105-844: The Berlin Jazz Festival , curated by George Gruntz . The same line-up was recorded by Enja Records , with Rolling Stone magazine writing: "Bunka gets fame in a growing musical diaspora as 'best oud-player north of Mekka'." Bunka was known for his artistic collaboration with German and international musicians, such as the German world music groups Embryo, Dissidenten and Jisr, but also with jazz musicians Mal Waldron , Charlie Mariano and Malachi Favors , as well as with Indian and Egyptian performers Trilok Gurtu, Ramesh Shotham , Fathy Salama and others. German music critic Ralf Dombrowski wrote about Bunka's 2004 record Orientación with fellow musicians Luis Borda and Jost Heckler: "He

120-553: The distribution. “Music distributed by the musicians” was the primary guiding principle. There were no European models to imitate, although the Filmverlag der Autoren [Authors’ Film Publishing Company] was surely groundbreaking at the beginning. Established several years previously, it had succeeded in marginally pushing back the market power of the Anglo-American media flood so the filmmakers who belonged to it could make

135-581: The energy in the center of the music spectrum and the expansion and development along its margins. Many others subsequently used APRIL Records as a model. Within a short time, numerous bands wanted to be part of it. Other artists who published at Schneeball are Real Ax Band, Munju, Checkpoint Charlie, Moira, and Hammerfest. An important cooperating partner for distribution via bookstores was the Trikont label “Unsere Stimme” [“Our Voice”], which had sprouted from Trikont Buchverlag [Trikont Book Publishing Company]. At

150-550: The label for occasional new releases, e.g. Charlie Mariano with Rama Mani in 2005 or Peter Michael Hamel with Thomas Gundermann in 2014. Schneeball was the trailblazer of the “Independent Label” movement, which conquered its place in the global music industry. Roman Bunka Roman Bunka (2 December 1951 – 12 June 2022) was a German guitarist, oud player and composer, active in world music and jazz fusion bands. He lived most of his life in Munich , Bavaria, where he

165-432: The same time, the “Umsonst und draußen” [“Free and Outdoors”] festival movement developed as an organizational form for noncommercial music festivals. New labels were founded, including, for example, NO FUN, Zickzack , Eigelstein, Subup, and Trikont. The distribution was taken over by EfA(Energie für Alle) [Energy for Everyone] at the beginning of the 1980s. Schneeball Oper 1 und 2 [Snowball Operas 1 and 2] were developed as

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180-662: The trailblazers disappear. Punk, Neue deutsche Welle , disco: the audience's orientations had changed. Othmar Schreckeneder, EMBRYO's producer since 1972, continued to publish audio recordings until the mid-1990s on the Schneeball label with EMBRYO and its guest musicians from diverse cultures and countries. He also published radio plays for Bayerischer Rundfunk [Bavarian Radio] (Ernst Jandl, Grace Yoon) and works by artists such as Eugen de Ryck, Chris Karrer , and Amon Düül II . EMBRYO switched to Trikont, thus remaining under Indigo's distribution. Only Schreckeneder continued to use

195-458: Was already over by the mid-1980s. The reasons were manifold. Ton Stein Scherben broke up. Rio Reiser began a solo career at Sony . At EMBRYO too, many years of collaboration among the musicians and composers Christian Burchard, Roman Bunka and Uve Müllrich came to an end after a trip to India – but not before the releases of the double LP “EMBRYO’s Reise” [“EMBRYO’s Trip”], a road movie, and

210-769: Was documented in the movie Vagabunden Karawane . Besides the guitar, his second instrument was the Arabic oud , which he studied mainly in Egypt . Having spent long periods of time there, he often played in the band of Egyptian singer and movie actor Mohamed Mounir , for example at the New Year's Eve concert in 2000 at the Pyramids of Giza . In 1994, Bunka presented his ethno jazz project Color me Cairo , featuring Malachi Favors of Art Ensemble of Chicago , and Egyptian musicians Fathy Salama , Hosam Shakir and Khaled Goma at

225-569: Was involved in various musical crossover projects. Bunka was born in Frankfurt on 2 December 1951. He started playing the guitar as a teenager. In the 1970s, he moved to Munich and joined the world music group Embryo . They toured in Morocco, India and Afghanistan, and the music of these countries made a strong impact on Bunka and his fellow musicians. In 1979, Embryo traveled overland to India with three buses and their instruments. The tour

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