This website is work in progress.
here you can listen to my musicAmini:
Transparent Soul (2007, keys, vocals, guitar, percussion)
Andrea Reichhart:
Moment of Beauty (2004, piano, vocals, percussion)
Magnolia (2008, piano)
crima:
The Ball Chair Experience (2021, everything)
Start Anew (Single 2021, everything)
Both Sides of the Ball Chair (2022, everything except violin, cello and saxophones)
Pop Piano For Study And Sleep (2025, everything)
Emajamaa:
Colors of Asymmetry (2024, drums)
Huub Dutch Duo:
Max und Moritz got the Blues (2018, sound engineering, percussion)
Life is Fine (2025, sound engineering, drums)
Peter Schnur Trio:
From Seconds to Hours (2009, drums)
Tête-A-Tête:
De l'autre coté de la rue (1999, piano, vocals, drums)
Beziehungswaisen (2004, piano, vocals, percussion, guitar)
Eisblumen und Rote Rosen (2009, piano, vocals)
On Board with You (2014, piano, vocals)
The "In" Crowd:
The "In" Crowd (2025, drums)
Thomas Haag:
Different Faces (2007, keys, producing, drums, bass)
Xavier Naidoo:
Telegramm für X (DVD 2004, keys, guitar)
Zitrovision:
Bulletproof (Single 2025, drums)
Christian Maurer is crossing the borders of musical styles. For many years he has mainly worked as a highly respected sideman (as keyboarder and drummer), before starting his own project: crima.
After graduating from the classical conservatory and an additional degree in jazz studies his musical work ranged from jazz to pop music, from Chanson to Latin American music, from electronic music to contemporary classical music.
He played with many international artists like drummer Keith Copeland, Allen Blairman, Pete York, saxophonists Olaf Schönborn and Peter Reiter, trumpetist Uli Schünemann; singer Viviane de Farias, Nubya, Xavier Naidoo, Hans Hartz, Rolf Stahlhofen, Philippe Huguet, Georg "Mary" Preuße; guitarist Dany "Labana" Martinez, bassists Dave King and Fritz Heieck, keyboarder Jason Wright and Thomas Wind, contemporary composer John King and many others...
His musical influences started with French electronic pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, the Beatles, ABBA but also classical musicians like Bach, Beethoven, Chopin. As an adolescent he discovered jazz artists like Bud Powell, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.
The list of musical influences has grown a lot by now as well as the quest for integrating these influences in his personal musical language. One result of this process was the double album "Both Sides of the Ball Chair".
The new collection "Pop Piano for Study and Sleep" combines his passion
for classical piano, the love for Pop melodies with a long experience as an arranger.
Christian Maurer
Weststadt
69115 Heidelberg
info@crima.de