Animation Artist & Musican, Keyboardist - Fender Rhodes, Moog and Sequential Synthesizers, Ambient, Filmscore, Sound Tracks for Games

Hello! My name is Hans Henning Thomas. I think, I´m more a soundengineer than a songwriter and more a songwriter than really a singer/musician. I started to play guitar  late, i.e. on the age of sixteen and had never learned an instrument before. So my first musical influences have been by songwriters, because I firstly payed most of my attention to the lyrics. My musical understanding developed at this time, moving away from home and hanging around with some friends. At this time I did my first steps by grounding a band. But we were influenced more by the era of such as the Doors, Rory Gallagher, Neil Young, Jimmy Hendrix,  Pink Floyd or the first Deep Purple cast, - while the actual successful music at this time sadly was New German Wave and the like.

Later, after becoming an firstly unemployed physics, I followed my intention and turned my passion to trade, becoming a sound engineer. After all I got a well paid job in an public supported analog sound studio for a decade, recording and teaching some people in sound engineering. Some of my songs, published here, are a result from this era.

Now I´m working again as a physics / engineer, and music became my fervour again. In my life I lived in many different towns, in East and West Germany -  i.e. Düsseldorf, Braunschweig, Paderborn, Berlin, (1/2 year Tropea, Calabria, Italy), Hagen Westf, Siegburg, Dresden (Neustadt) and now I turned to Rahden, Westf., again, where I live deep in the country in an integral nature reserve. The experiences, I got and the people I met, might be an insperation for my philosophy and my music.

Thanks to the new computer technologies, I was able to build myself a modern home recording studio again, to produce my own and my friends music in a good quality.

My intention for the next time is, to listen to the theme and sound of the nature and turn it to music. The Intro of my song "Wild Ducks Flying" ("Flieg mit dem Wind") is a good example for this project. It came up to me, when I recorded some wild ducks trough my open window, flying over my house. I loaded the samples into a software synthesizer and started to made music to it, leaning on the style of some early Pink Floyd projects. This song should be regarded to migrant birds in analogy to the human society, nowadays.

I plan to go on this way in my next holiday, at least for a month, recording and using the sounds of a forest at night and the like. 

I hope you like and enjoy at least some of my songs :-) 


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Welcome to the main music profile of https://soundcloud.com/calaminus

Feel free to enjoy many original releases of mine, ranging from 2017-2021.
For all former releases visit my Old Main Profile via the link below.

Thank you for listening! And have a good time :-)
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Calaminus was a one-man-project from Düsseldorf/Germany, producing groove-orientated instrumental music with the focus on genres like Funk, Fusion, (Acid/Nu)Jazz, Groove and Rock/Pop, sometimes enriched by several influences of our Worlds' Music.
From 2009 - 2021, I created more than 200 original music tracks, released 5 albums and actively colaborated with some fine musicians here.

In 2021, I decided to end this project after all these years due to the lack of general interest in my music and my own personal interest in music at all.

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Many of these original tracks - all arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by myself - are still available under Creative Commons (CC-NC-ND) for free non-commercial use.

Any commercial use of my music tracks is strictly prohibited.

Here are the archived links to the  5 full album releases  of Calaminus
- enjoy your listen for FREE as long as they are still there:

"Filet de Fonque" (2010)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-FiletDeFonque/ 
"On the Trail" (2012)...  http://www.archive.org/details/Calaminus-OnTheTrail/ 
"Grooveyard" (2013)... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Grooveyard/
"To Another Place (2014)... http://archive.org/details/Calaminus-Another-Place/
"No Lament" (2015) ... https://archive.org/details/Calaminus-NoLament

Feel free to explore my side project https://soundcloud.com/quipmusic/ as well which went beyond the Calaminus works in a proggy/multigenre way.
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Although l've quitted music and won't be active here on SC anymore, you can still leave me a comment & share the music with your friends :-) 
But please don't await any replies to comments, reactions to likes or messages anymore. 

Thanks, farewell and all the best, 
Calaminus
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Respected musician friends on SC,  I had the honour to make music with and/or can really recommend to you:

- https://soundcloud.com/jamie-rhind
- https://soundcloud.com/danarchx
- https://soundcloud.com/jules-keys-1
- https://soundcloud.com/michel-martineau
- https://soundcloud.com/roysmith
- https://soundcloud.com/stringburner
- https://soundcloud.com/simon-reich
- https://soundcloud.com/tunesma
- https://soundcloud.com/audric-jankauskas
- https://soundcloud.com/4pickupguy
- https://soundcloud.com/aleckrand
- https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
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THANK YOU all for your support & music during the past years!!!!
Maybe we'll meet again in the future.
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Some artists beyond SC who have inspired me & have influenced my works:

Incognito, Maceo Parker, Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Steely Dan, Soulive, Lettuce, Jamiroquai, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Bruce Hornsby, Toto, Sting, Beady Belle, Bill Evans, Derek Trucks, Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Adam Holzman, Dave Matthews, Iona, Snarky Puppy, Raw Stylus, Tribal Tech, Spocks Beard, Robben Ford, Ron Spielman, Sceaming Headless Torsoes, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Yellowjackets, Weather Report and many more...

I'm a synthesist, saxophonist and general techie who enjoys creating and sharing music. Styles range from ambient-experimental-improvisational to jazz, soul jazz and the warm tropical sounds of Brazil.

Soprano/Alto/Tenor Saxophones 
Piccolo/Flute/Alto Flute/Bass Flute
I welcome ideas for any new musical collaborations. 
Feel free to contact me with any tracks you feel I might be able to add to.

Bassplayer, Percussionist, Keyboarder, Drummer. Musical experience since 1970, first Band in 1978 as Percussionist, studying Percussion with Freddie Santiago, after an accident switched to Bass end of 80´s.
Livemusician, find his home in Classic, Jazz, Soul and mainly improvisation. 
Open for cooperations, write a short message.

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