Chris Karrer is a German guitarist and composer. He also plays oud

Oud

The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...

, saxophone and violin.He is known as co-founder of Amon Düül

Amon Düül

-External links:* - Extensive bio @ Perfect Sound Forever* mainly focussed on their collaboration with Robert Calvert of Hawkwind...

 (later participating in the related and much more commercially successful project Amon Düül II

Amon Düül II

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) and for his collaboration with Embryo

Embryo (band)

Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10...

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With his band Amon Düül II

Amon Düül II

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 he composed film music for Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...

's Niklashauser Fart and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a German film director, whose best known film is his lengthy feature, Hitler: A Film from Germany.- Early life :...

's film San Domingo (Deutscher Filmpreis

Deutscher Filmpreis

The Deutscher Filmpreis is the highest German movie award. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, since 2005 the award has been given by the Deutsche Filmakademie...

 1971 for film music).

Karrer was born in Kempten

Kempten

Kempten can refer to:* Kempten im Allgäu, a town in Bavaria, Germany* Kempten ZH, a district of the town of Wetzikon in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland* Kempton Park, Gauteng, a city in South Africa which was named after Kempten in Bavaria...

 in Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

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Solo

• Chris Karrer LP (1980) with Curt Cress
• Dervish Kiss (1994) with Sivan Perwer
  Sivan Perwer
  Şivan Perwer is a Kurdish poet, writer, musical teacher, singer, and performer on the tembûr . Şivan currently lives in exile after fleeing Turkey in 1976 because of his music...
  
   and Rabih Abou-Khalil
  Rabih Abou-Khalil
  -Life:Rabih Abou-Khalil grew up in Beirut and moved to Munich, Germany during the civil war in 1978. He lives part-time in Munich and part-time in the South of France with his wife and two children.-Music:...
  
  
• Sufisticated CD (1996)
• The Mask CD (1997) with Mani Neumeier
  Mani Neumeier
  Mani Neumeier is a German rock musician, free jazz-drummer, artist, frontman of the German Krautrock-band Guru Guru....
  
   and Christian Burchard
• Grandezza Mora CD (1999)

Collaborations

• Missus Beastly (LP 1970) with Missus Beastly
• Patchwork (CD 1999) with M.T. Wizzard
• Temporale (CD 2005) with Alhambra
• Fitzcarraldo (CD 2005) with Popol Vuh
  Popol Vuh
  Popol Vuh is a corpus of mytho-historical narratives of the Post Classic Quiché kingdom in Guatemala's western highlands. The title translates as "Book of the Community," "Book of Counsel," or more literally as "Book of the People."...
  
  
• Portrait (2009) with Uli Trepte
  Uli Trepte
  Uli Trepte was a German musician best known for his collaborations with various influential Krautrock bands in the early 1970s.-Early career:...
  
  
• PSY [2008) with Guru Guru
  Guru Guru
  Guru Guru is a German Krautrock band formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier , Uli Trepte and Eddy Naegeli later replaced by American Jim Kennedy...
  
  

External links

• Grandezza Mora
• http://www.thing.de/delektro/artikel/eng/ad2/ad-yeti-yogi.html Interview

• http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/60/