Mathias Grassow

Mathias Grassow
Origin	Wiesbaden, Germany
Genres	Ambient Drone ambient Dark ambient
Instruments	Steel Cello
Associated acts	Klaus Wiese Oöphoi Alio Die Bruno Sanfilippo
Website	www.mathias-grassow.de

Mathias Grassow is a German ambient musician whose recordings can also be classified in the genres of dark ambient and drone ambient. His music often has a meditative and emotional and spiritual context, which induces deep feelings of introspection in listeners. Over his long career, he collaborated extensively with other notable ambient composers such as Klaus Wiese, Oöphoi, Alio Die, Bruno Sanfilippo, and Tomas Weiss.

Mathias Grassow played drums and guitar in the 1970s and moved on to keyboards in the early 1980s. Later, he became interested in keyboards and electronic synths. He had an interest in Alan Watts books and spirituality. His interests progressed over from Buddhism to Sufism and to the mystical side of Christianity. He became interested in overtone and subharmonic chants, long deep synthesizer drones, and in Indian classical music. Later he was influenced by the singing bowl sound recordings of Klaus Wiese.

Notable albums include the following:

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