Bill Smith
Excerpts CODA,Jazzmagazin, Canada
from a performance in Toronto

"He is surely one of the most individual players I have heard..his music is full of joy and exhuberance, and he himself physically tall and loose, completes the picture of a beautiful and happy experience.
Vibraphone : amazing 4 mallets-technic, truly amazing, changes his metal instrument into a veritable orchestra: he employed the sustain pedal to hold chord-clusters lingering in the air and at the same time counteracted them with single note runs, rhythmically arranged and rearranged in more ways than it seemed possible.........flute: he made the heart leap...so much happened. It ranged from the natural twittering of birds to the banshe vocal cry of folk music...Breathing, swaying, grunting into his instruments and even to the technic of rhythmicall accompanying himself with the clacking of the keys.TRULY ASTOUNDING!"

IN THE POETRY
AND TRADITION
OF THE MUSIC
by
MICHAEL F.
HOPKINS
buffalo,USA

"ONE FORCE ON THE MUSICAL

HORIZON  WHO BIDS FAIR TO MATCH AND MOBILIZE ALL ACHIEVEMENTS IS A GERMAN UNIVERSALIST WHOSE PLAYING AND WRITING CONJURES THE AWESOME SIMPLICITY OF A ONE WORLD TERRAIN.
GUNTER HAMPEL, THE GRANDSON OF A COMPOSER AND BOHEMIAN STREET MUSICIAN,IS A M A S T E R ,WHO PRESENTS A NEW WAVE - THE REAL NEW WAVE - IN THE MUSIC !
A VIBRAPHONIST WHO STAGGERS THE EAR WITH A FLOATING AND FULL BODIED PRECISION OF EACH CHIME,HE PLAYS THE FLUTE LIKE A BACH_WINGED DOVE,THE BASSCLARINET LIKE AN ELEPHANT DANCING THE MINUET (again Tone !) AND PIANO AS THE WINDLORD WOULD PLAY UPON THE SUMMERS FIRST LEAVES (His BIRTH -label demonstrates once more the tremendous potential that artistic control holds in store....."