Stephan Micus (born 1943) is a German composer and multi-instrumentalist known for solo recordings on ECM; he plays and overdubs a wide range of traditional instruments from around the world.

Longtime ECM recording artist; composes and performs using diverse traditional instruments (for example shakuhachi, suling, dilruba, sho, dulcimers); many albums are solo projects with Micus performing all parts himself; associated with meditative/ambient/world music aesthetics.

DeBaser reviews present Stephan Micus as a German multi-instrumentalist and composer who records largely for ECM and constructs immersive, meditative soundscapes. Reviewers highlight his use of diverse traditional instruments (shakuhachi, suling, dilruba, sho, dulcimers) and his solo overdubbing approach. Albums discussed are often described as archaic, spiritual, and evocative rather than literal or programmatic. Overall reception in the provided reviews is strongly favorable.

For:Listeners of ambient, world and new-age music; ECM fans; readers seeking meditative, instrumental soundscapes.

 Micus owes the instrumentation of this album to his travels around the world and the study, with local musicians, of the instruments he encountered along the way: suling and shakuhachi, both bamboo flutes, the former from Bali, the latter of Japanese origin; dilruba, an Indian instrument similar to the sitar, played with a bow; tambura, a type of lute of Indian origin but also present in the Balkans; along with the acoustic guitars, designed by Micus himself, with 10 strings or double 7 strings.

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 Stephan Micus, eclectic multi-instrumentalist on his 12th album (!!), must have lost himself in a desert too, because the 9 tracks contained in this album seem to have been composed from the 5th hour onward, such is the serenity and harmonious sense that pervades the entire album.

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 ZEN album of cathartic meditation where the resonating parts of struck stones sound in six divided parts.

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