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RIP Mathias Grassow

MasangaMasanga
edited August 2025 in Other Music Content

Very sad news out of Germany: the great drone artist Mathias Grassow died on Wednesday at only 62. There'd been a bit of a theme of mortality and finality to his last few solo albums, which I thought was just a response to the times but now suggests he'd been ill for a while and knew he was on the exit ramp. But he was on a hot streak at the end, from his final and best live album a year ago to the fourth and biggest of his collaborations with Heikki Lindgren in May, while his final fans-only release was just a fortnight before his death. Heartfelt condolences to Conny Kern, his wife and longtime creative partner.

Despite over 300 albums, Mathias was very selective about what he put out publicly; everything had to be distinctive, and there were hundreds, probably thousands, of hours of recordings every bit as good as his public releases that he sat on because they weren't different enough, and only made available by the hard drive full on his Bandcamp merch page. Where his mentor and frequent collaborator Klaus Wiese's genius was for meticulously overdubbing layers of sound so that they blended magically and indistinguishably together, Mathias favoured more space and emotion in his sound, and increasingly liked to build stunningly complex compositions on the fly in virtuoso live recordings. Harmonia Mundi is his masterpiece, El Hadra his bestseller, Northland Wind the classic of his early work and Ascending Rosespirals of his later; Short Stories is a good introduction, and Lev Levin’s epic Wisdoom and AeroArea compilations gathered some of the best of his back catalogue of unreleased material. I particularly love his live-mixed work from 2009–12 (starting with the Heart of the Earth sessions).

Comments

  • jwmmakerofmusicjwmmakerofmusic

    I don't think I've ever heard his name before, but I'm so sorry to hear he passed away. I can't wait to dig into his music catalogue. I bet there's a lot of great music to be listened to. 🙏

  • MasangaMasanga
    edited August 2025

    Yes, he's been criminally underappreciated; Klaus Wiese at least had a celebrity fan in Terrence Malick, who's used him on several soundtracks, but Mathias, who's right up there with him, has languished in relative obscurity despite a forty-year career. I only discovered him myself about fifteen years ago, but for me he was the absolute master. It's a terrible loss, but he leaves a huge and amazing body of work. Nearly all of it is streamable free in full on Bandcamp.

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    Never heard of him either, he is (was) my age. Listening a couple of minutes is enough to tell, real good stuff. Thanks for the links and sorry for the loss.

  • cyberheatercyberheater
    1. That’s quite young 😔
  • wimwim

    Wow. I never heard of him either. I love what I'm listening to now.

  • SteveElbowsSteveElbows
    edited August 2025

    @Masanga said:
    There'd been a bit of a theme of mortality and finality to his last few solo albums, which I thought was just a response to the times but now suggests he'd been ill for a while and knew he was on the exit ramp.

    I dont really want to go on at length about the details of cause of death here, but its mentioned elsewhere online and was not related to illness. River drowning accident.

    Sadly I was not aware of him and his work while he was alive but will take this sad opportunity to learn more and to hear some of his work. RIP.

  • MasangaMasanga

    @SteveElbows said:

    @Masanga said:
    There'd been a bit of a theme of mortality and finality to his last few solo albums, which I thought was just a response to the times but now suggests he'd been ill for a while and knew he was on the exit ramp.

    I dont really want to go on at length about the details of cause of death here, but its mentioned elsewhere online and was not related to illness. River drowning accident.

    Yes, here are links to a couple of press reports; his friend and occasional collaborator Michael Brückner is among those who've confirmed it was Mathias.

    https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kreis-mainz-bingen/verbandsgemeinde-rhein-nahe/bacharach/toedlicher-badeunfall-im-rhein-bei-bacharach-4878769

    https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/rheinlandpfalz/swr-mann-ertrinkt-im-rhein-bei-bacharach-100.html

    I now remember it was only this last Bandcamp Friday he was promising a new album in the autumn. Heartbreaking.

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