BIOGRAPHIES

Ingo Bischof was born into a musical family on January 2nd, 1951. His mother had many classical records, which Ingo consumed early on. One day the Bischofs were invited over by friends. After their daughter played some piano pieces during the evening, Ingo said to himself "I can do this too".

While Ingo's older brother played Elvis Presley records 24 hours a day, the future Karthago member prefered the Rolling Stones or Steve Winwood. Later, Ingo also got into Fusion (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wheather Report,...) and Jazz pianists (McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarreth,...).

At age 15 Ingo founded his first band "Thud" with Marvin Kemper and other fellow musicians. In 1969, the "Modivations" followed. A year later Ingo became a founding member of Karthago.

In 1975, he switched over to "Kraan", in 1978 Ingo became a member of "Guru Guru". Later on, he re-joined "Kraan" until 1984. At the same time he founded the group "Bad Boy" in another cooperation with Joey Albrecht before becoming a pick-up musician.

Today Ingo says: "Being a musician for rent was something totally different. I'm glad about not being a pick-up musician anymore because many colleagues did not manage to get back into what they really wanted to do. The creativity and the personal style suffers while playing with other bands a lot. And these are important aspects".

In the 1990ies, Ingo became a music instructor in Hamburg. Today, he is both a Karthago and a "Kraan" member. In addition, he plays meditation sounds with Ramish Weeratunga ("Flowing Power").

Ingo on the Karthago revival: "Today we are more professional, more effective and not as wild and crazy as we were in the 1970ies. But the musical intensity is still there".