Deuter (born Georg Deuter, 1945) is a German new age instrumentalist and recording artist known for his meditative style that blends Eastern and Western musical styles.
Born in 1945 in post-war Germany in the town of Falkenhagen, Deuter taught himself the guitar, flute, harmonica and "just about every instrument I could get my hands on," though it wasn’t until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties that he decided to pursue a career in music. His first release in 1971, titled D, is widely acknowledged as a Krautrock classic. D marked the beginning of Deuter’s spiritual and musical journey, ostensibly paving the way for a new genre of music known as New Age, which combined acoustic and electronic elements with ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds, such as whale and bird song, the open sea, wind in the trees, etc.
During the 1970s and 1980s Deuter, after travelling extensively in Asia in search of spiritual and creative inspiration, settled for a long time in Pune, India, where under the name Chaitanya Hari he became a neo-sannyasin — a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who later changed his name to Osho. With the aid of a multitrack tape machine, living in the neo-sannyas ashram, he produced a series of music tapes to be used in "active meditations", consisting of several "stages" of ten or fifteen minutes each, which range between, and often merge, Indian classical motifs, fiery drums, loops, synthesisers, bells, musique concrète and pastoral acoustic passages. These works, constructed to the master's instructions in consultation with a team of disciples testing the meditation methods, deserve recognition for their purely functional or objective origination as well as for their originality, power and sometimes beauty.
Walking down the sidewalk singing to myself when I saw her again and I had to follow
She was the most beautiful flower I’d ever seen it was getting hard to swallow, when she turned and said
You can follow me home, only to watch my door close
Or you can walk beside me, I’ll let you buy me a rose
And I might tell you my name
I took my chance I wanted to dance but played it cool I could feel the sun
Introduced myself, stopped at the first flower stand, gave her that rose, I gave her a dozen
And she told me her name
I could have followed her home, only to watch her door close
But I walked beside her, and bought her a rose
She looked at me tears flowed lightly her heart was open
Laid her head against my shoulder there we stood, nothing else was spoken
And we fell in love
I never will forget that day my whole life changed a smile touched her face her hand in mine
Half carried her up to her floor, she invited me in, I closed the door behind
I could have followed her home only to watch her door close
But I walked beside her, and bought her a rose