Torsten de Winkel

NEW CD AVAILABLE NOW:
Torsten de Winkel presents
Bimbache Jazz & Raíces - La Condición Humana
- endorsed by UNESCO
w/ Gregoire Maret, Gwilym Simcock, Hellmut Hattler, Kike Perdomo, Audun Waage, María Mérida, Boris Kozlov, Fola Dada, Kai Eckhardt and many others
available at w w w . b i m b a c h e . i n f o
or download at www.artonearth.com
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IDIOT SAVANT & HUMAN CONDITIONER
Torsten de Winkel, guitar, e-sitar, perc, comp, prod (www.torstendewinkel.de); founder of new york jazz guerrilla artists-for-artists network and label (www.nyjg.org). 8 releases as leader featuring Michael Brecker, Joachim Kuehn, Nana Vasconcelos, Al Foster, Gregoire Maret, Larry Grenadier, Kai Eckhardt, Ernie Watts, Hellmut Hattler, Bob Moses, Buster Williams, Billy Cobham, Ravi Coltrane and others. Recordings and/or live performances with Joe Zawinul, Grandmaster Flash, Whitney Houston, Udo Juergens, Steve Smith's Vital Information, Tom Coster, Tab Two, Terri Lyne Carrington, Simon Phillips, Randy Brecker, Gary Husband, Tony Lakatos, Abe Laboriel jr., Horacio 'El Negro' Hernandez, Julio Barreto, Matt Garrison and many others.
Guitarist / multi-instrumentalist on Pat Metheny Secret Story Group Tour.
Artist community activist, clinician ('Training Intuition - a more effective approach to jazz education and much more'), theorist on motivational psycholgy, observer of the human condition. Human OS analyst. Proponent of love and humor instead of judgment and rigidity ("Fear is the devil's real name"). Human Conditioner. Idiot Savant.
Messiah-in-Training and megalomanic bastard with delusions of grandeur. Says: "don't take anything too seriously ever, unless you absolutely must.!!!"
Love and laugh.
And yes, we c a n improve the world, the human condition: be a force of reducing the pressure in the pressure cooker, allow the human animal to relax and its best intentions ("the better angels of our nature") to surface and roam rather then increasing the competition and self-perpetuating defense mechanisms which are at the root of the misery of the human condition.
Being HUMAN starts when we understand that we are puppets on the strings of our conditionings, of inner and outer stimuli, and choose to alter those conditionings which we determine are counterproductive, when we become observers of stimuli and choose which ones to react to and which not
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Krishnamurti / Ehama Institute / Antonio Damasio / Peter Kramer / Daniel Quinn / Myers-Briggs / experiments on learned helplessness and serotonin in alpha primates / community is the greatest healing power
de Beauvoir - All men are mortal / Albert Speer - Erinnerungen/Memoirs / Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich / Checkpoint Charlie - You are leaving the American sector



THE HUMAN CONDITION IS UNIVERSAL