Leykam Live Erlangen 1998
His idiosyncratic style, combining structure and improvisation, lies in the realm of ambient, experimental and industrial music. He simultaneously combines electric guitar, effects and electronic sound sources controlled by electric guitar (guitar-controlled synthesizer).
Works by and featuring Leykam have been released on CD since 1990. He designs most of the CDs (Digi-Pak, Jewel Case) himself using photographs and images (artwork). Through photography, artistic processing and the resulting high-quality CD artwork, he creates a visual connection to the music.
Life and work
Leykam has released several solo albums since 2008 and has worked with Frank Mark, Martin Birke, Aaron Kinney, Daniel Panasenko, Chuck Ehlis, Frank Meyer and Robin Schaller since 1989. Since 1990, 46 albums by and featuring Leykam have been released. Leykam works and composes mainly in his own recording studio. Mixing, mastering and artwork design (CD, booklet, digipak, inlay) are produced in the studios of Frank Meyer and Frank Mark (pre-master).
Leykam private 2006
Instruments and working methods
Leykam mostly uses a Steinberger electric guitar. The original sound of the electric guitar is simultaneously combined with controlled effects and synthesizers. The resulting soundscapes are usually used without post-processing. Leykam also works in this way when collaborating with other musicians. Either the guitar is pre-recorded and musicians play tracks to accompany it (as on the album "Experience Space"), or Leykam plays the guitar to accompany the pre-recorded tracks (as on the albums "Boundless" and "HEX").Discography
Solo
2008 Veiled
2011 The Mainspring
2013 Corridors
2014 Realm of the Shades
2015 Ethereal
2016 Impressions
2016 The Eternal Cycle
2017 Essence
2018 Sound Waves of the Present
2018 Force Fields
2019 Alchemy
2019 Imagery
2021 Pure
2021 The Interweaving of Mood and Tension
2022 Echo
2022 Anchorage
2023 Healing Place
2024 New Worlds in Interstices
2025 Time Phenomena
Releases with Roman Leykam
1990 Ghost/Way of Thinking 1
1995 Sensitive 1
1996 Extreme Colours 1
1997 Instant Influx 1
2000 Seed of the Essential 1
2002 Act on Impulse 2
2004 Executive Flesh 8
2006 Bewitched Revelations 2
2010 The Volume of Silence 1
2011 Live Extracts 96-98 1
2012 Boundless 3
2012 Primal Ocean 4
2014 Levitation 4
2015 HEX 5
2016 The Detection of Slowness (DVD) 1
2017 Experience Space 1
2017 Interferences 6
2018 Nebbia 4
2018 Nightfall 1
2019 Shards 4
2020 Utopia 5
2021 Dawn 1
2024 The Cause Lies in the Future 4
2024 Confluence 1
2024 Krautinsel 7
2025 Pulsars 4
2025 Drifting 1
1 Leykam/Mark
2 Birke/Leykam/Panasenko
3 Leykam/Mark/Panasenko
4 Meyer/Leykam
5 Leykam/Mark/Meyer
6 Schaller/Leykam
7 Leykam/Meyer/Schaller
8 Casualty Park
all albums as CD at:
Frank Mark Arts (LC 04344),
except Executive Flesh/Casualty Park at:
Cyberdelia Records
Sampler
1995 Semaphore Sampler, Track "Ticket for Titanics" from the album "Extreme Colours".
1997 Live Tour Promo CD, Track "Affect the Senses" from the album "Instant Influx" at the sampler CD FMA 9707.
2017 Dark Spy Magazin, Tracks "Labyrinth" und "Breathing Pictures" from the album "The Eternal Cycle" at the sampler (attached CD) of the printed edition No.75.
Performances
1995 Album Presentation extreme colours for the opening/exhibition "Themen und Strukturen" (Themes and Structures) by Manfred Neupert in Nuremberg, Oct 14 till Nov 14.
1996 Live at Monteith Barracks1 (Fuerth/Germany), October 6.
1998 Live Tour Germany1, October 5 till 11 (Munich, Erlangen, Aschaffenburg, Hamburg, Berlin, Bochum).
2000 Ambient Sound Installation at the opening/exhibition of Manfred Neupert in Nuremberg, April 14.
1 Tracks at the album Live Extracts 96-98 (CD FMA 1118)
Interviews
1998 Klanglandschaften im Grenzbereich [PDF/1.8MB] Version with preface [PDF/0.9MB]
Interview2 with Roman Leykam, Frank Mark, Daniel Panasenko (Sandbox Trio), Aaron Kinney (Casualty Park);
2000 Seed of the Essential
Interview1 with Roman Leykam.
2002 Act on Impulse in inMusic
Interview1 with Roman Leykam, Martin Birke und Daniel Panasenko.
2002 Act on Impulse in Orkus
Report/Talk3 with Roman Leykam, Martin Birke und Daniel Panasenko.
2006 Bewitched Revelations
Interview1 with Roman Leykam.
2008 Veiled
Interview1 with Roman Leykam.
2017 The Eternal Cycle
Interview with Roman Leykam.
1 Rainer Guérich: inMusic Musikmagazin
2 Jan Hagemann: Black Magazin
3 Thomas Sonder: Orkus Musikmagazin