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.
Und als ich anfing zu laufen,
waren die Beine noch krumm,
da dachte ich, mit diesen Beinen
fall ich mein Leben lang um.
Als ich zu sprechen begann,
schrie ich die Worte nach
da glaubte ich noch, mit lauten Parolen
rüttelt man Schlafende wach.
Als ich gehorchen lernte,
und saß bei Tische still,
ahnte ich, daß ihr wolltet
was ich noch heut nicht will.
Und als ich singen mußte,
von der Etsch bis an den Belt,
blieb mir das Lied im Halse stecken
bei "Deutschland in der Welt".
Und als ich sehen konnte,
so wie ihr es befahlt,
hätte ich fast mit euern Lügen
mein schlechtes Gewissen bezahlt.
Als ich begriffen hatte,
warum ihr Kriege führt,
da hat meine Wut mit letzter Kraft