Peter Michael Hamel
Peter Michael Hamel is a German composer, born in Munich in 1947. He studied composition, psychology and sociology in Munich and Berlin, with teachers including Günter Bialas and Carl Dahlhaus, and spent long periods in Asia. His work is linked to minimalism and the New Simplicity, and he is known for meditative records on organ and electronics as well as for orchestral and stage works. In 1970 Hamel founded the improvising group Between, which recorded for the WERGO and intuition labels. Under his own name he released albums such as Hamel, Nada (1977), Colours of Time, Bardo and Organum.







