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February 2012

Coming soon fellows: The third C.T.P. / Christian Tolle Project CD titled The Higher They Climb is finished! Michael Voss and I co-produced 12 tracks between summer and winter 2011. I am very pleased with the result: Performed with an incredible amount of energy the album contains a powerful mixture of hard hitting Heavy Rock tracks (no ballads!), catchy hooklines and some of the best voices in the genre: David Reece (Ex-Accept, Bangalore Choir), Leon Goewie (Vengeance), Paul Shortino (King Kobra, Ex-Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt) and Michael Voss (Michael Schenker, Casanova, Mad Max). Also a few friends joined me on the guitar: L.A. guitar wizard Michael Landau, Ben Granfelt (Ex-Wishbone Ash), Andy Susemihl and Morris Adriaens do a guitar solo each and give the record a special flavour. The album will be released 30th of March via FASTBALL Music.

December 2011

I contributed to the new Vengeance CD Crystal Eye with the opening track Me And You. The CD will come out 24th of February 2012 on Steamhammer/SPV. Vengeance now is: Leon Goewie on vocals, drummer Chris Slade (Ex- AC/DC), guitarist (Ex- Alice Cooper) and bass player Chris Glen (Michael Schenker Group). Crystal Eye was produced by Michael Voss.

Check out a Youtube-Teaser for the new AOR CD The Colors Of L.A.

October 2011

From Frederic Slama’s website: The new AOR CD entitled The Colors Of L.A will be released January 27th on AOR Boulevard Records and will include some of the best musicians of the AOR world like Tommy Denander, Philip Bardowell, David Foster, Steve Lukather, Jerry Hludzik, Joey Summer, Christian Tolle, Randy Goodrum, Steve Newman, Joe Pasquale, Michael Thompson, Rick Riso, Bill Champlin, David Diggs, Bruno Levesque, Michael Landau, David Williams, Vinnie Colaiuta, Brandon Fields among many others.

I am very honoured and proud to be part of it.

The new C.T.P. CD is mastered and finished, I just returned from MSM studios in Munich. The 12 tracks indeed do sound fat and punchy. Christoph Stickel once again did a fantastic job. A release is planned for early 2012, more news soon.

June 2011

Just returned from 3 days tracking guitars at Kidroom studio with producer Michael Voss for my next C.T.P. record. It's gonna be loud and heavy.

April 2011

There will be more music in 2011/12. I started to record my next C.T.P. release and teamed up with producer Michael Voss (Michael Schenker, Voices of Rock, Casanova, Mad Max, Cooper Inc.). It will include some rocking appearances from singers all over the world and then some. I am very exicited. This will be a straight Heavy Rock effort thru and thru.

Reece-Kronlund is the new project of Bangalore Choir singer David Reece (ex-Accept) and Swedish guitarist/producer Martin Kronlund (Gypsy Rose). The debut album Solid will be released on June 24th through AOR Heaven. I co-wrote three tracks on Solid: Animals & Canibals, Remember You and Magic Pudding. More at REECEWORLD.

March 2011

Check out the Shop section:

The following CD’s are 7,90 EUR each!

Grab
C.T.P. - Better Than Dreams,
C.T.P. - The Real Thing and/or
COOPER Inc. - Pulling The Trigger
at a “Nice Price”.

January 2011

Happy new year everybody. I start the year co-producing with Frederic Slama for his next AOR project.

December 2010

Happy Holidays and all the best for 2011. Thanks to all who supported and worked with me. It was a pleasure. More to come next year.

November 2010

Again a great day of recording with David Reece. Also we did an interview for the online magazin www.hardharderheavy.de. Thanks to Stephan König for coming over.

I did a a few layer guitar tracks for David Reece at my friends Markus homestudio and played a few parts through his wonderful original Tri-Stereo-Chorus that will add some flavour to a few tunes, I love that vintage outboard gear.

October 2010

I started to record and produce in my studio with David Reece. We have written more songs over the summer together. Those tracks are some great pieces of hard rockin music! Stay tuned!

David and I also wrote for the upcoming release of US-Rockers Tango Down, another great band David is fronting. Their next CD will be released on Kivel Records soon. David rocks! Check him out on REECEWORLD.

July 2010

I started to write songs with David Reece recently. Our first output Heart Attack & Vine can be heard on the new Bangalore Choir CD Cadence, which will be released at the 23rd of September on Metal Heaven records. I also guested for a solo on a great uptempo track called High On The Clouds.

January 2010

Happy new year! Looks like a promising start yet. I am writing new songs already and I’ll play more with Cooper Inc. live to support the recent release. Therefore we’ll do another show together with our friends from REECEat the10th of April in Cologne at the Krebelshof e.V.

December 2009

A big thank you to everybody who supported us at the Rock Temple in Kerkrade and at the Spirit of 66 in Verviers at the recent Cooper Inc. shows. Thanks to Jorn and especially to David Reece and his band - great guys, great music and most important: good friends.

July 2009

I am happy to announce that the the new CD from Cooper Inc. - Pulling The Trigger is set for release by CTM christones music / POINT Music Distribution on the 9th of October.

June 2009

I am honored to guest on the debut solo CD Universal Language from David Reece (Accept, Bangalore Choir, Gypsy Rose and Sircle Of Sirence). I played lead guitar on the opener Before I Die. The CD will be released on August 28th on Metal Heaven records.

May 2009

After a passionate and good amount of work the new Cooper Inc. CD is finally finished. 12 tracks, produced by Michael Voss of Kidroom Music, are now mixed and mastered. We are currently looking into release options. More soon...

July 2008

Getting busy lately: Cooper Inc. has finally started to produce the next album. We are very happy to announce the collaboration with top producer Michael Voss, whom you might know from Mad Max, Casanova, Demon Drive or Voices Of Rock. We will work and record within the next coming weeks and hope to have everything done by the end of the year. It will be a fantastic record. I promise!

I cowrote and recorded a nice instrumental tune called Sunset After Dark together with my friend Andy Susemihl for his new instrumental record Supermihl & Superfriends. The cd features the massive chops and more songs from Andy and also guest appearances from Richie Kotzen and Rafael Moreira among a few others. Check out Andy here:

July 2007

The three shows with TOTO in Hannover, Bremerhaven and Dortmund have been awesome. Thanks to everybody who supported us there. Of course a BIG THANK YOU to TOTO, their crew and to the promoters for making it all possible. You guys rule!

The most exciting moment was of course playing Hold The Line with the guys in Dortmund. Check it out on YouTube.

June 2007

Cooper Inc. will support TOTO on a few shows on their upcoming summer leg of the FALLING IN BETWEEN tour. Plus we’ll do some shows on our own.

We are in the middle of pre-production for the next CD and we are having a bunch of very cool new songs.

February 2007

I am humbled and honoured to play with David Garfield, John Pena, Russ Miller and Eric Marienthal at the Spirit of 66 in Verviers/Belgium at the 3rd of April. It’s a challenge and I will give my very best to hold the candle with those legends.

August 2006

A BIG THANK YOU to TOTO, their crew and the local promoters for treating us like family. The two shows in Trier and Emmendingen have been fantastic. Thanks to everybody for their kind words and the appreciation. Check out some pics at the Gallery.

If you like, sign our guestbook at the Cooper Inc website.

May 2006

Wow, we will support TOTO (again) in Trier and Emmendingen this summer.

December 2005

CTP is featured in a detailed story about The making of The Real Thing In the current issue of Gitarre & Bass magazine in Germany

Rock It magazine 01/2006 features an interview with CTP.

September 2005

CTP's song Enemy can be heard on the new ROCK IT sampler HEAR IT Volume 21, coming with the current issue of the magazine.

Check out the interview at www.gitaarnet.nl - the Dutch guitar online magazine. Of course it's in Dutch...

August 2005

CTP's follow up to "Better Than Dreams" is out now on CTM christones music. "The Real Thing" features 10 fresh AOR songs with performances from Steve Lukather, Tim Pierce, Doug Aldrich, Chuck Wright, Lauren Scheff, John "Jaycee" Cuijpers and many other great players.

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