New Zealand-based Singer and Songwriter Matthias Wichtrup presents his works at Audiosparx. Matthias studied music at the Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany, and gained other qualifications for popular music while studying there. He released four CDs as a singer and songwriter (My Face Is Not My Face, My Loneliness, Mr. M, and Behind the Horizon) and various CDs for meditation, relaxation, music therapy and Tai Chi.
Today, Matthias is director of Manuka Music based in Paraparaumu, New Zealand. His passion besides performances is the recording of production music (Manuka Dreams and Manuka Music Productions) in different styles, ranging from Classical to Modern Music, and songwriting.
Matthias is a multi-instrumentalist and is influenced by many musicians from different genres but mainly from the Progressive Rock and Folk. You will find Classical elements as well as Rock and Blues in his music. Some of the pieces are very complex compositions and show a variety of different sounds and atmospheres, spaces and colours. Other songs are ballads performed solo on a piano or acoustic guitar and others are straight Rock tunes with driving guitar riffs or Symphonic-Rock elements.
Genres for This Artist
Music Tracks: 50
Music Genres For Matthias Wichtrup Blues | Folk | Rock |
This song is about immigration and the problem to fit in. Finding a place to call your home and fighting with the memories of the past. If you don't fit in you will become an aerial root. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Rock (pending categorization)
Powerful song about the land of your dreams. A song of hope and magic. A song of visions and expectations. The track starts with acoustic guitars and hand drums builds up to a very powerful band arrangement with different instruments and a solo duel of guitar and keyboards. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
This Instrumental Progressive Rock piece opens with light percussions and soft sound collages. The main part focuses on wide keyboard improvisation before it opens into a world of open spaces and atmospheres. In the final part, the guitar joins in and brings it to a powerful final. Instrumental, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
A song about the final moments in our life. Elegant and soulful, soft, ethereal with beautiful, hopeful lyrics. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
A song about high expectations and great disappointments in my life. I wrote this song after a friend promised me a new life in another land and it didn't work out that way. The song start with piano only and it builds up to a very powerful final. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
Rock theatre piece with the theme of a priest's ritual. Solemn melody and elegant male vocals, featuring organ, bass and guitar. Beautiful sense of caring, reverence, ritual, and mystery. Uplifting and filled with hope for salvation and everlasting life. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
A song about the inner voice in your heart. Listen to your heart when you want to change your life: What you think is what you'll be. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Melodic Rock
First part of the Rock theatre triolgy of Mr. M. He wakes up one morning and reflects the anaonym life around him before escaping into another world. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
2nd part of the Rock Theatre of Mr. M. This Symphnonic-Rock part is the escape of Mr. M into a new world. He follows a voice across a river up to the top of a stairway tower ... Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
3rd part of the Rock theatre Mr.M.: He returns back into the real world and tells of the three men he met on his journey and of his inner fight he has to face. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
A song about changes. People are changing all the time and sometimes they don't even notice. The song contains ballad parts and powerful instrumental parts with guitar and synthesizer sounds chasing and each other. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
This is a song about the death my aunt which took me by surprise. This song reflects all emotions and pain of grief. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Rock (pending categorization)
Art Rock Instrumental piece that begins with beautiful thunder, rain, lightening and light percussion. Atmospheric and spacious, morphing into exotic and unusual music with both dramatic tension and release. The pipe organ provides the powerful melody and chord progressions. Instrumental, Rock Music, Art Rock
A song about the breakup of two people. The day after yesterday is the day after the world fell apart and where you start to pick up the pieces. Male Vocal, Rock Music, Progressive Rock
A beautiful ballad written as a tribute to the artist's father. Soulful and melodic, peaceful and tender. Poignant and caring music, expressing love and feelings of depth and nostalgia for a life lived well. Solemn, stirring and graceful, remeniscing and taking a look back to better times. Instrumental, Rock Music, Melodic Rock
