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Tony “TaiAn” Clark is a shakuhachi player of the Kinko lineage – he studied first with Dr. Dale Olsen Bai-o at Florida State University, later with the famous player Iwamoto Yoshikazu.

Tony plays traditional Zen pieces – “Honkyoku”, as well as classical and new music. He has performed with the Ensemble Online Vienna, the New Philharmonic of Nordrhein Westphalen, at the ECLAT Festival and März music, among others.

Tony also plays guitar and sings and is involved in many different projects, including Tony Clark and Killing Time.

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Tony Clark is the lead singer of Tony Clark and Killing Time.

Tall dark trees … the stench of rotting seaweed and oysters, lingering mist wafting over hills and towns. And the slightly deranged humour of a race of men that run around in logger shirts drinking cappuccino – all these things are quite apparent in Tony Clark’s songs, but the German based Seattle native does have more to offer.

Years travelling the globe, sitting in the Himalayas meditating over a sitar, playing the streets of Europe with South American Indians, or bearing the icy cold waterfall of a Japanese zen monastery – all these have left a trace in Tony’s musical oeuvre.

Tony: “At some point, I decided the rock song was the right cup, the flask, the vehicle for conveying my ideas. I tried other things, but it was all too much of a compromise. I´m happy if I can write a good rock song, with some spices thrown in for good measure.”

Tony Clark and Killing Time is Tony on vocals, Sascha Baransky on drums, and Willy Wagner on bass – they’ve have been killing time for a few years, doing gigs around Europe and recording stuff when they feel like it.