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Founding phase (1996-1999) KariBow was founded in the winter of 1996/97 by multi-instrumentalist Oliver Rüsing (born February 8, 1969) as an original six-piece band project. The early compositions were characterized by different musical influences, which, however, were combined to create their own varied style due to the open attitude of all the musicians involved. KariBow in 1997 The band initially tended to hard rock, but in the early years there was already a development towards rhythmically experimental grooves and hookline-heavy compositions. In addition, the band integrated various electronic instruments such as sequencers. The musical responsibility was mainly Oliver Rüsing, who in the 1990s had already worked as a live and studio musician in Europe and North America with bands such as Last Turion, Counterparts, Chinook, Maquis or the Canadian Swell Guys. For this reason, the first Karibow productions appeared under pseudonyms that had previously been used by Rüsing in solo projects. The name Karibow first appeared on the album Supernatural Foe vocalized in 1998. Despite successful joint band work, a creative core developed within the project over time, consisting of Oliver Rüsing and Berthold Fehmer, as most of the founding members were also involved in other musical fields beyond KariBow. Tribal Avenue" (1999-2003) Due to the open project structure, KariBow had become a musical two-man project with Rüsing and Fehmer in 1999. The remaining duo turned to studio work and were involved in various audio productions. With the neo-progressive concept album Three Times Deeper, KariBow's first development phase ended in the same year, as the band began to focus more on classical melodic rock at the beginning of the new millennium. Tribe (2000) and Tribal Avenue (2001) were therefore significantly less experimental than the band's first productions and are partly mainstream. Keyboardist and pianist Berthold Fehmer devoted himself in the following years to working with the Dorsten progressive rock band Junk Farm, which he founded in 2001 together with guitarist Benjamin Schippritt. "Ayganyan Project I" (2003-2007) KariBow worked on music for the art project "The Ayganyan Project I" from 2003. The digital experimental film required a monumental sound robe, which the band finished with the second edition of the "Ayganyan Project I" soundtrack in 2007. With this soundtrack, KariBow closed the circle to Rüsing's own past, marked by electronic influences, because during the 59 minutes of the album no acoustic instrument can be heard. In 2005, 'Besser' KariBow's only native-language piece of music was released in Maxi-CD format. Besser was later re-released as 'Better' on the album A' History of Inorganic Talk'.

"Inorganic Talk" (2007-2011) Oliver Rüsing live at Yamaha DTXtreme IIS in 2006 The influences of progressive rock returned to KariBow's music between 2006 and 2008 with the concept album A History of Inorganic Talk. Shortly thereafter, Inorganic Talk (Acoustic) and Hollow Be My World II were followed by two EPs, which contained acoustic versions of two songs released on the previous album. In addition, both mini-albums again contained stylistically overarching, more complex studio material. Since the turn of the millennium, KariBow had only been seen sporadically and mostly unplugged. Oliver Rüsing had also begun to perform electronic compositions solo in parallel with his studio work. A greatly expanded electronic drums and digital sampling played an essential role in performances. From studio to live project Following the release of the album Man of Rust and the receipt of the first German Rock & Pop Prize at the end of 2011, Rüsing decided to return the project to its original band character fifteen years after its foundation. As a result, KariBow developed from a studio to a live project until 2014, which initially consisted of a changing line-up, until the band finally established itself as a solid formation with Markus Bergen (keyboard), Gerald Nahrgang (drums), Oliver Rüsing (vocals, guitar), Christopher Thomas (guitar, vocals) and Thomas Wischt (bass). In November 2014, KariBow released the studio album Addicted, whose production Rüsing collaborated with Eroc as part of the mastering. In July 2016, keyboardist Markus Bergen died suddenly and unexpectedly, before guitarist Christopher Thomas left the band in October 2016. He was replaced by Jörg Eschrig, who had already been involved in the recordings of the Holophinium album, until autumn 2017. The four-piece band was strengthened live by Marek Arnold (Seven Steps to the Green Door/Toxic Smile) on keyboard and saxophone. In 2018, in addition to the studio albums The Unchosen and MOnuMENTO, the side project KariBow Acoustic was also created, within which Rüsing, together with guitarist Martin Schroer, Gerald Nahrgang and other band members, reinterprets acoustically arranged versions of various Karibow songs from twenty years of band history live. Since spring 2019, Karibow has been live with Oliver Rüsing, Gerald Nahrgang on drums, Guido Seifert on keyboards, Felix Jäger on bass and Philipp Dauenhauer on guitar again and after a successful release concert of the new album Supernatural Foe Rebirth in the Dutch Nieuwerkerk at the end of June on MOnuMENTour in the UK in summer 2019. Collaborations with the international progressive rock scene (since 2016)[Edit | Edit source code] KariBow live with Michael Sadler 2016 The KariBow double album Holophinium, released on April 4, 2016 by Progressive Promotion Records, included Saga singer Michael Sadler and Australian keyboardist Sean Timms (Unitopia/Southern Empire). The following month, KariBow went on tour in Germany together with Saga and presented part of their program together with Michael Sadler. The 2017 production From Here to the Impossible featured Rüsing and his fellow musicians, Saga keyboardist Jim Gilmour, Australian singer Mark Trueack (Unitopia/United Progressive Fraternity), saxophonist and keyboardist Marek Arnold, Sean Timms (keyboards) and Daniel Lopresto (guitarist and vocals) both Southern Empire. In addition, for the first time since the band was founded, a female artist was involved in a KariBow album with the Catalan-Dutch singer Monique van der Kolk (Harvest). In 2018, the series of international guests on the production MOnuMENTO continued with the singers Hayley Griffiths, Nik Koray and Simone Stiers. In addition, Mystery front man Michel St-Pére, keyboardist John Young (Lifesigns/Bonnie Tyler), Antony Kalugin (Karfagen/Sunchild) and Scottish singer Joe Cairney (Comedy of Errors) contributed musical elements to the double album released on 15 November 2018.