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February 1st 2012: release of Nils Kercherīs new live-album (set of CD & DVD) “Ancient Intimations Live”! It is available on Amazon, CD Baby, i-tunes and most other stores. You can also order it directly through: info@nilskercher.com See CDs for more information
October 2011: new interview with Nils Kercher on his experiences in West-Africa on the website of the Association “Hilfe für Guinea” (Help for Guinea). Nils Kercher will play two charity concerts with his ensemble for the association on 12th November 2011 and 27th Jnuary 2012 in Cologne / Germany Link to Interview with Nils Kercher in German language “Hilfe für Guinea”
August 8th 2011, Interview with Nils Kercher in German language at radio station Domradio - part of the program “Worldwide Today ” (interview: Daniel Hauser, Bonn) Link to listen online Listen Online
August 5th 2011: tickets for the two concerts November 19th / 20th in chamber music hall Beethovenhaus, Bonn, Germany are available via www.bonnticket.de or any other ticket seller
August 6th, 2011: stage during concert of Nils Kercher & Kira Kaipainen at dawn at Alkumeri Festival in the European Capital of Culture 2011, Turku, Finland
Nils Kercher & Kira Kaipainen were accompanied by Samuli Majamäki (FIN) and the string ensemble from Sibelius music academy (FIN):
Nils & KIra during concert Turku 2011
May 2011: ...”gentle strokes for the soul” writes the newspaper in Neuzelle, where Nils, Kira and Dinesh (India) gave a sold out concert in a beautiful baroque style former monastery.Read full article in German
February 2011: the first pictures of the concert in the planetarium Bochum (12.02.2011) are online. The round hall with 270 seats was completely sold out. The room was dark except for the stars and the planets dancing into the music...
January 2011: On January 9th the German television MDR broadcasted some extracts of Nils Kercherīs and Kira Kaipainenīs song “sanu” while performing at the crosscultural New Yearīs celebration in Weimarhalle / Weimar for an audience of 800.
December 2010: new music video TALVEN SYLI - mystic embrace of winter (album ANCIENT INTIMATIONS) now online: watch on Youtube or page videos
December 2010: new previously unreleased concert samples online! Recorded during CD release concert in November 2009 in Bonn / Germany Musicplayer Nils Kercher
4.October 2010 (12am & 12pm or later available as podcast): Two tracks of Nils Kercherīs album “Ancient Intimations” will be featured along with music by Ba Cissoko, Toumani Diabate and Bassekou Kouyate on the show “Harpestry”, broadcasted by KRVS radio station, Louisiana / USA
September 2010: editing, mixing and mastering of the recordings of the CD release concert 11-2009 in Bonn has been accomplished in Radu Marinescuīs Studio / Cologne (Germany) - the tracks will be released on a live DVD in 2011
August / September 2010: Recordings of new audio book project: Rainer Maria Rilke: “Die Weise von Liebe und Tod” together with actor Friedrich Mayer Audiobook will be released in the beginning of 2011 on the label: nils kercher records
April / May 2010: “Ancient intimations” is the “media recommendation” of the April / May edition of the German magazine “Prisma”. Nils Kercherīs CD received the best possible rating of 5 stars!
5. April 2010, ab 16:03 Uhr: Introduction of Nils Kercherīs CD in the German radio Broadcasting programme Musikkulturen WDR 3
21.2. 2010, interview with Nils Kercher at radio station Deutsche Welle in “Musikszene” (Interview: Daniel Hauser, Bonn) listen online
Januar 2010: Nils Kercher was nominated as “talent of the month” in the European webradio Groovalizacion. Some extracts of the review: “very elegant album”, “beautiful landscapes from Black Forest to Guinean farmlands” ... “His last album, "Ancient Intimations" is in line with the cause of human integration which binds cultures and which has already been taking shape through the discernment of the most open and curious minds.”(See the whole comment here)
15.11.2009 ab 20:04 bis 20:30 Uhr: Interview with Nils Kercher and Introduction of his new album “Ancient Intimations” on Radio Bonn Rhein-Sieg / Germany
Oktober 2009: track “I siga fe minden” of the new Album(ANCIENT INTIMATIONS - Nils Kercher)in the charts of European webradio Groovalization
September 2009: Nils Kercherīs new album reached the official European World Music Charts!www.wmce.de
16.09.2009 22:25 until 23:00: Introduction of the new album “Ancient Intimations” in the German radio Broadcasting Hessischer Rundfunk HR2-KulturHR2-Kultur Live-stream