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<> Music of Thomas Wiegandt <>

My music is a mix of ethno ambient compositions and improvisations with influences from many different cultures. Over the years I have recorded a range of quite diverse music either on my own or together with other musicians, who I like to thank for their kind contributions. I'm sure there is something for everybody's taste, please check it out!

Please stay tuned to Cosmic Radio and explore listening to the various albums until you find the one you really like ... and download it! I like to share the music, that was brought to me by Cosmic Radio!

Enjoy and maybe let me know what you think ... it would be great to get some feedback!

All music downloads are for free and there is no obligation to pay. However, if you enjoy the music and if you want to show your appreciation as well as to support an aging musician you may consider to make a donation. What goes around comes around.

I welcome any creative use of my music like sampling, backing tracks for songs, film music, public performances, broadcasts, etc., but please contact me for permission if you intend to use my music in this or any other way.

 

Music Albums + Downloads

Thomas Wiegandt - Best Songs

Compilation of meaningful songs with poetical, philosophical, spiritual and critical lyrics Musicians: Ailin Becker (drums, perc.), Daniele Trevisiol (violin), Rafael Wiegandt (drum kit, perc.), Thomas Wiegandt (vocals, guitar, sitalin, jaws harp, Ngoni, perc., sound editing)
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1. Unwind + Unfold 11. Graffiti In The City #1
2. Fall In Love 12. Relationships
3. Lovers 13. Up In The Sky
4. Play The Game 14. Eventually
5. Inspire 15. Universal Energy
6. Animal Sense 16. Back In The Driver's Seat
7. Some People 17. Stones
8. Oblivion 18. Eureka
9. Internet 19. Brainiac Maniac
10. Into There (Watchtower Update) 20. Time Is A Joke

Thomas Wiegandt - Best Instrumentals

Multi-instrumental music compilation with a tribal ambient feel. Thanks to the musical contributions of Ailin Becker, Mali Rasta Fred and Paul Mayer. 11. Harpzither, Flute, Vocals (Simultaneous) 22. Aqua Blue (Gangsa Metallophone)
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1. Siesta (Guitar) 12. Made In China (Cooking Pots)
2. Beginings (Gambang Xylophone) 13. Flying Birds (Sitalin)
3. Flowers In The Wind (Mandolin) 14. Inwards (Suling Flute)
4. Happy Feeling (Hang Steel Drum) 15. Bamboophone, Drum + Bell
5. Spanish Road (Guitar) 16. Sabana (Mandolin)
6. Desert Flute 17. Morrocan Clarinet
7. Zen Harp-Zither 18. Frying Pans Sonata 1
8. Sheperd’s Dance (Cane Flute) 19. Roots Blues 29 (Sitalin + Sanza)
9. Being Home (Guitar) 20. Church Organ
10. Flowing (Euklang Aluphone) 21. Luna + NightSpirit KlingKlongs Sonata

Thomas Wiegandt - A minor Love Affair - Ambient guitar music (2009)

A pleasant and harmonious collection of ambient music by Thomas Wiegandt played mostly in the key of A minor on guitar, mandolin and sitalin - with some transmissions from ancient times plus some more recent classical and popular references ... The CD has 11 tracks with a total playing time of 49:00. Feedback: "This is really good !" (daughter Aleesha Wiegandt, 8 years of age)
1. Meadows 7. By The Well
2. Flowers In The Wind 8. Stairway For Elise 17
3. The Way Back 9. Fire Dance
4. Ancient Time 10. Nocturne Espagnole 15
5. Stairway For Elise 15 11. Peaceful Feeling
6. Nocturne Espagnole 5a

Thomas Wiegandt - Beyond The Strings (2007)

Instrumental guitar music to dream and drift downstream ... or maybe just to listen to ... Thomas Wiegandt finally releases some of his own guitar compositions and improvisation... likely to be enjoyed by people who in this fast paced third millenium with all its technolgy and gadgets still like to listen to just a humble acoustic guitar or like to create a pleasurable ambience ... The CD has 21 tracks with a total playing time of 79:36
1. Spanish Road 12. Guitar Raga
2. Siesta 13. Here It Goes
3. Sabana 14. Sunrise
4. Drifting By 15. Fantasia
5. Flying Birds 16. Late Summer
6. Feathers 17. Travelling South
7. Get Funky 18. Roots Blues
8. Dragonfly 19. Senegal
9. An Bóthar (Sancoir Version) 20. An Bóthar
10. Get Funky 2006 21. Reflections
11. Being Home

Thomas Wiegandt and friends - Dolce Vita - The music of life (2012)

> Dolce Vita <-> Varieté De La Vie <-> Living And Alive <-> Vielfalt Des Lebens < Acoustic true vibration music, which is all about life in a poetic and passionate way. It's not polished, but perfect as it is - in its imperfection and uniqueness. Lots of different sounds and tunes, talking and singing in different languages. Life and music: it's good to keep both natural and real. Dedicated to the generous nature of the universe and the ancestors, who look after us. Music played, written and edited by Thomas Wiegandt 2002-2012 with the help of these friends: (1) Dink Rowe: voc. - (3,8,11,19) Basil Schur: clarinet - (4,10,22) Roxan Riou: voc. - (6,15,17) Seán: voc. - (12) Aleesha Wiegandt: voc. - (16,20) Ailin Becker: calimba, perc. - (23) Mark Minard: drum - (24) Sarah Zugno: voc. - Refléxion Inutile was written in Paris ~1980 by Corinne ? or Natalie Benaim The CD has 24 tracks with a total playing time of 67:39
1. Welcome 13. Nilia (my beloved)
2. Unwind and Unfold (the un-song) 14. Samala (healing chant)
3. An Bóthar Variation 15. Tíntán (fire side)
4. Refléxion Inutile 16. Circles
5. October 2009 17. Traveller
6. On A Beach 18. Double U Double U Double U Dot
7.Ocean Of Time 19. Leaves In The Wind
8. Trust (Sitalin) 20. Heitere Gelassenheit
9. Recovering 21. ErLeben
10. Refléxion Inutile 2 22. Refléxion Inutile (acapella)
11. Gurdjieff 23. Ease At Last
12. Ballybane 24. Dolce Vita

Ethnic Forgery - Music from around the world (2006)

An amazing variety of acoustic ethnic music played on many different musical instruments from around the globe. The CD has been recorded in West Cork, Ireland by multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt, being joined by various local and international musicians. They play a range of both lively and meditative pieces inspired by African, American, Asian and other musical traditions. The musicians involved are Ailin Becker, Jeremy Baines, Andy Carling, James Casey-Ellis, Norman Collins, Dearbhail Connon, Doctor Dink, Toby Eaton, Frank Germuth, Markus Hohmann, Ato Mariano, Gert Neuberger, Katie Nixon, Dick Richards, Ben Russell, Basil Schur. The CD has 24 tracks with a total playing time of 70:50
1. Native Indian Chant 13. Being Home
2. Village Carnival 14. Spirit Cell
3. South African Tune 15. Ancestor Voices
4. Roots Blues 29 16. Transformation
5. Rhythm Djungle 17. Flowing
6. Still Around 18. Sitadanga 7f
7. Maori Song 19. Indian Earth Chant
8. Cave Time 20. Mongolian Gamelan
9. Flying Birds 21. Long Time Ago
10. Men's Stick Jam 22. Djungle Groove
11. Tropical Fish 23. Weaving
12. Bursting Out 24. Eja-Ejaah

Thomas Wiegandt - Guitar Poems (2013)

Some poems for strings by Thomas Wiegandt played on guitar, sitalin and bass - transmissions by Cosmic Radio concerning the present Zeitgeist of the fast changing Now. Saxofon: Anja Maier. Sound Editing: Thomas Wiegandt 7. Internet
1. Un-Song 8. Lovers
2. Play The Game 9. Up In The Sky
3. Far Away Vision 10. High Cue Haiku 3#
4. Fall In Love 11. Back In The Driver's Seat
5. Universal Energy 12. Eventually
6. Ocean Of Time 13. La Defense

Hear and Now: Coming Together - Music Improvisations from West-Cork (2002)

Acoustic music recorded in West Cork, Ireland. Exploring the vast scope of music improvisation became an exciting journey into the unknown full of magic and surprises. The musicians come from very different musical backgrounds and the improvisations do not necessarily represent the individual musician’s usual type or style of music. This CD has been funded by the arts office of the Cork County Council in 2002. Musicians: Jeremy Baines: Flute --- Sarah Cunningham: Viola da Gamba, Vielle --- Sarah Groser: Viola da Gamba --- Clair Lalor: Flute --- Mark Minard: Xylophone, Drums --- Thomas Riedmuller: Guitar, Flute --- Thomas Wiegandt (Project Co-ordinator): Guitar, Mandolin, African Lute, Flute, Xylophone, Talking Drum, Percussion, Calimba. Recording Studio: Drumming Centre West Cork, Ballydehob, West Cork The CD has 14 tracks with a total playing time of 47:40 Review: This album could certainly find a place in the record collection of any person who listens to the nature around them, notices that magnificent dawn or glorious sunset or wants to investigate their inner self. File under contemplative and thoughtful, and enjoy it. (Marcus Connaughton - RTE Radio - Cork)
1. Joyful Beginnings 8. Soul Retrieval
2. Daydreams + Clouds 9. Acceptance
3. Inward Journey 10. Trying To Understand
4. Awakening 11. Spiral Dance
5. Getting Ready 12. Surrendering To Change
6. On The Road 13. Ease At Last
7. Curiosity 14. Coming Home

Inside The Labyrinth - A Shamanic Sound Meditation (2006)

3 tracks recorded live in the Unitarian Church inside a labyrinth during the Cork 2005 European Capital Of Culture closing celebrations 21-12-2005. Musicians: Thomas Wiegandt + Ailin Becker. Instruments: shamanic drums, Tibetan singing bowls, flute, ocarina, kalimba, percussions. Bonus tracks - from various Spirit Trance Drumming sessions: 14-16 (An Sanctoir - Ballydehob, April 2001 Thomas Wiegandt: drums) 17 (Hear + Now Sessions 2002, Thomas Wiegandt: flute, vocals, drums, bowls, rainstick. Mark Minard: drums, bowls) 18 (Hearing Voices - Sound Session, Cork 11-2006, facilitated by Thomas Wiegandt) 19 (Feedback - backward) Time: 73:49 minutes
1. singing bowls (1) 11. kalimbas
2. singing bowls/drum 12. suling flute (2)
3. shamanic drums 13. singing bowls (2)
4. singing bowls/rainstick 14. Spirit Drumming 1
5. suling flute (1) 15. Spirit Drumming 2
6. ocean drum/rainstick 16. Spirit Drumming 3
7. shamanic drums/voice 17. Inward Journey
8. ocean drum/ocarina 18. Trance Session
9. gamelan bowls 19. Grand End
10. rattle/drum

Kaleidoscope - a multi-instrumental experience (2008)

On this CD multi-instrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt plays 23 different musical instruments. These 23 original tracks have been recorded over 23 years and cover a broad spectrum of multi-cultural music. The listener may decide if there is any significance to the number 23, or if this is just a coincidence with actually no meaning at all. In any case: we await your feedback - kcabdeef. Total playing time of 75:48
1. Hang Steel Drum 13. Mandolin
2. Spanish Guitar 14. Cane Flute
3. Gambang Xylophone 15. Singing Bowls
4. Zen Harp-Zither 16. Steel String Guitar
5. Calebash Calimba 17. Agogo Bells
6. Djembe Drum 18. Ngoni Lute
7. Sitalin Overtone Lute 19. Bonang Trouvé
8. Suling Flute 20. Sitar
9. Euklang Aluphone 21. Sawblade Sanza
10. Acoustic Highlife Guitar 22. Harmonium + Casio
11. Shamanic Drums 23. Electric Guitar
12. Gangsa Metallophone

Thomas Wiegandt - Master Of None (2020)

A multi – instrumental Kaleidoscope. This is the 2nd volume of another 23 original tracks featuring another 23 different musical instruments. Thomas Wiegandt: multi-instrumentalist + vocals — Ailin Becker: drums, percussion — Det Schlich: drums, percussion, vocals (9) — Jens Franke: drums, percussion) — Paul Mayer: drums, percussion — maybe someone else? Instruments built by Thomas Wiegandt (3, 8, 10, 11, 13, 18, 21, 23) Sound Editing: Thomas Wiegandt. (2020)
1. Rap 13. Ngoni + Bells + Vocals
2. Cuban Style Guitar 14. Long Bamboo Flute
3. KlingKlong + Shaker 15. Ethiopian David's Harp
4. Desert Flute 16. Church Organ
5. Piano + Vocal 17. Ocean + Harmonica
6. Morrocan Outar "Banjo Lute" 18. Pan Metallophones
7. Morrocan Clarinet 19. Tribal Dan Moi Chant
8. KlingKlong Solo 20. Gangsa + Frogs Composition
9. Harmonica 21. Egg Cutter + David's Harp
10. Luna + NightSpirit KlingKlong 22. Suling + Waves Composition
11. Alu Bucket + Poetry 23. Circular Chimes + Crows
12. Harpzither + Flute + Vocals

Land Of Magic - acoustic ethno ambient music (2007)

Soulful and gentle roots world music, melodic and rhythmic, featuring the Balafon (West African Xylophone), the Hang (a Swiss novelty steel drum), the sitalin (a sitar lute, build by Thomas), the Euklang (a tuned cylindrical aluminium drum, build by Thomas) and many other instruments. Musicians: Thomas Wiegandt: guitar, sitalin, flute, hang, euklang, gambang, drum --- Ailin Becker: drum, hang --- Fred Rasta Mali : Balafon --- John O'Sullivan Sherig: hang --- Sound Editing: Peter Sai-Ngarm, Thomas Wiegandt. The CD has 17 tracks with a total playing time of 70:15 Feedback: It puts a nice atmosphere into the house and the children also liked it very much. (Justine Foster, West Cork Art Centre) Sweet music, thank you. Caroline Carey (dance + movement teacher, West Cork)
1. Call From Mali 10. Shepherd's Dance
2. Magic Light 11. Mirage
3. Sunrise 12. Jah Dro (Circle Dance)
4. Dragonfly 13. Happy Feeling
5. Afro Dro (Circle Dance) 14. Dancing Feet
6. Hang On 15. Another Land
7. Land of Magic 16. Dragonfly (Hang Version)
8. Take Your Time 17. Late Summer (First Transmission)
9. Late Summer

Thomas Wiegandt: Out There - Somewhere ... - a musical expedition (1984)

A Kraut Rock music collage of nicely diverse pieces surfaced after 20 years. (Kraut Rock, meanwhile a trade mark, is a derogative in the English language for the inventive and highly individual Rock music in Germany in the 1970s) All acoustic and electric instruments have been played and recorded by multi-intsrumentalist Thomas Wiegandt in a farm house in the small village of Calle in the north of Germany in 1983/84. Only single takes were recorded on tape cassette, no overdubbing of instruments, several instrument are sometimes played simultaneous at the same time. Guest artists: tom cat Jimmy Kater and film star Marika Roekk. Straight transfer from original tape in 2004. Sound editing by PeterSai-Ngarm in 2007. The CD has 16 tracks with a total playing time of 57:44
1. Guitar Start 9. Casio Herbststrum
2. Harmonium 10. Mandolin
3. TV 11. Sitar
4. Guitar 12. Melodic Jazz Guitar
5. Flute - Percussion 13. Slow Harmonium
6. Cats 14. Electric Guitar
7. Casio - Electric Guitar 15. Guitar - Ocean
8. Marika Roekk 16. Casio - Flute - TV - Electric Guitar

Time Temple: Reflections (1989)

The music on this CD is ambient music to slow down and to enjoy being in the moment, being in a time temple... The improvisations, played mainly in eastern scales on acoustic instruments, create a peaceful and meditative atmosphere. The different pieces are reflections of different moods, ever changing with the flow of life. Improvised music is an authentic free flow of energy and vibration in the present moment and thus the creation of an instant composition by the Spirit. The music has been been recorded in 1988 in West Cork, Ireland. Thomas Wiegandt: Harp-zither, percussion Jeremy Baines: Flutes, ocarinas, bells, euklang, hooveridoo The CD has 16 tracks with a total playing time of 44:41
1. Happiness 9. Crossing Over
2. The Call 10. Sparks
3. The Road 11. Transformation
4. Everywhere 12. Realisation
5. Memories 13. Home Again
6. Invitation 14. Sleep
7. The Way Back 15. Dream Time
8. Water 16. Down Stream

Thomas Wiegandt - Rough Cuts + Derelict Demos (2018)

A collection of songs that had gathered over some decades and had never been used, but maybe still a worth while listen. 9. Goddess Have Merci 19. Rainy Day Blues 10. Relationships
1. Animal Sense 11. Back In The Driver's Seat
2. A Dare My Dear 12. Magic Happiness
3. Bird Of Paradise 13. Moon Blues
4. Into There (Watchtower Update) 14. Stones
5. Brainiac Maniac 15. Time Is A Joke
6. Graffiti Rap 16. Lovers
7. Eureka 17. Spliced Watchtower Update
8. Good Vibration 18. Play The Game

Daniele Trevisiol + Thomas Wiegandt + friends: Contemporary Chamber Music Of The Now

(selection from Doucemountain Jam 2014 except Track 12) The unique beauty and aliveness of an inspired instant composition. Musicians; Ben Russell: piano - Daniele Trevisiol: violin - Dick Richards: digital percussion + sounds, harmonica - Gerd Neubeck: bass - Thomas Wiegandt: guitar, acoustic percussion, vocals + words, sound recording + editing - Ailin Becker: guitar(track 12)
1. Salam 7. In Motion
2. Night Drift 8. Crazy Man 1
3. Little Wisdom 9. Strangely Woven
4. Freedom Waltz 10. Boogie Woogie
5. A Blues 11. The Sky Is High
6. Romantic Italian 12. La Defense

Daniele Trevisiol + Thomas Wiegandt: The Soft Edge of Awareness (2014)

Alternative chilled out classical music. 12 relaxing tracks for many occasions Musicians: Daniele Trevisiol: violin - Thomas Wiegandt: electric guitar, vocals, sound recording + editing Total playing time of 78:49 minutes
1. Soft Edge Of Awareness 1 7. Soft Edge Of Awareness 7
2. Soft Edge Of Awareness 2 8. Soft Edge Of Awareness 8
3. Soft Edge Of Awareness 3 9. Soft Edge Of Awareness 9
4. Soft Edge Of Awareness 4 10. Soft Edge Of Awareness 10
5. Soft Edge Of Awareness 5 11. Soft Edge Of Awareness 11
6. Soft Edge Of Awareness 6 12. Soft Edge Of Awareness 12

Daniele Trevisiol + Thomas Wiegandt: Violin Songs (2013)

Poetic songs trying to fathom the human condition, beautifully accompanied by violin being played with great feeling. Musicians: Daniele Trevisiol: violin Thomas Wiegandt: guitar, vocals, song writing, sound recording + editing Ailin Becker: percussion (1,4), guitar (9), cover foto - Gerd Neubeck: Bass (9) recorded in Ballydehob, Ireland in November 2013 This CD has 9 tracks with a playing time of 58:56
1. Unwind And Unfold 6. Unaware
2. Fall In Love 7. Into Space
3. Up In The Sky 8. NirgendAll
4. Lovers 9. La Defense
5. Moon Blues

**Bang On** Ballydehob World Percussion "Best Of" (2016)

.::.::. neo-tribal togetherness rhythms .::.::. Ailin Becker: drums, percussion - Anne Barry: drums, percussion - Detlef Schlich: drums, percussion, vocals - Jens: drums, percussion - Patrick Healy: banjo, bass, percussion - Thomas Wiegandt: vocals, drums, perc., dan moi jaws harp, flutes, harmonica, bass, sound editing. Sincere thanks to various unnamed guests. Recorded at the Ballydehob Social Club 2014/15. Total Time 78:28
1. Dan Moi Chant + Gambang 8. Aznavour + Waits
2. Something To Say 9. Time
3. Clarinet + Dan Moi 10. Bowls + Det
4. Bass + Flute 11. Flute Madness
5. Banjo + Recorder 12. Was Sagst Denn Du Dazu?
6. Gambang (Thomas) 13. Kein Anschluss
7. Secret Thoughts

Calle 33 - Cosmic Radio (1983)

“Kraut Rock” jam sessions from a remote place. Once upon a time there was a commune of some unusual individuals who lived together in an old farm house in the countryside in northern Germany. They often played music for their enjoyment, that just happened spontaneously and unfolded miraculously as if by magic by unconsciously tuning into Cosmic Radio! None of the players was too sure how this happened and worked and it did not matter one bit! The onderful nights were fun and full of musical surprises that no one could remember too clearly afterwards ... Musicians: Kira Boschen, Martin Gust, Martina Fahrenberg, Thomas Wiegandt, Wolfgang Steinke and some others.
1. Trance Mission 1 6. Dancing Colours 3
2. Trance Mission 2 7. Harmony
3. Happy Jam 8. Minimal Trance 1
4. Dancing colours 1 9. Minimal Trance 2
5. Dancing colours 2 10. Halt Mich Fest