You'll find my music on all streaming platforms and here in my Bandcamp-Shop.
Here some thoughts about every album, starting with the latest one. Hope you'll enjoy!

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HAGENMAYER: "BEGINNING"

Full album with 14 tracks, released March 7, 2025. Wonderful recordings from my young years up to 40 years back in time!



HAGENMAYER: "CRIME SCENE"

Single, released March 2025.



HAGENMAYER: "CHINESE WALL"

How could the Chinese people build a monster like this - compared to the poor quality of all things 'Made in China' sold here in Indonesia ;-)



HAGENMAYER: "TRUST"

Single, released February 21, 2025. Isn't all about authenticity, credibility and trust in life? Beautiful artwork painted by my wife Erlin Hagenmayer.


HAGENMAYER: "SADAKO"

Please watch my little video about the sad story of Sadako Sasaki - you're not forgotten. Just click the cover or here!



HAGENMAYER: "DEMOCRACY"

Single, released February 7, 2025. Few days left until elections in Germany. Unfortunately, it seems Germany will have incompetent politicians in these difficult times.



HAGENMAYER: "LOVE"

Single, released January 24, 2025. Also a very old song of mine, recorded new. I used the sound of a big rain in the old recording which was much too loud. And since I don't have Original mixes of the old tracks to reduce this I've recorded it completely new and I'm more than happy with it!


HAGENMAYER: "HAPPY NEW YEAR"

Single, recorded on New Years Day 2025, reflecting thoughts about the future. Beautiful artwork by my wife Erlin Hagenmayer.


HAGENMAYER: "HOLIDAY"

Single, December 2024, about someone who really needs a holiday after Christmas hassle.


HAGENMAYER: "MISSION"

A single, released end of 2024. It's about an aircraft crew lost in space stranded on an unknown planet in search for a better place than Mother Earth.

I have written this song maybe 25 years ago and still have a demo recording of it. I'm really proud of my new track. 


MICHAEL HAGENMAYER: "ISLANDER"

Released  on Friday, October 18, 2024 on all your favourite platforms worldwide. It's an EP with four songs I absolutely love. The first recordings in my new home on the Island far away from anything!

MICHAEL HAGENMAYER: "SOLO"
This is my latest album from 2018. I've composed, arranged, written, played and recorded everything on my very own in my little studio at home. Even the graphic artwork and photos of the eight page booklet are from me. More "solo" is not possible. So the name for the album was found quickly. I have done a lot of instrumental stuff in the past, as you may know, cause I am very addicted to sounds and moods. This time I wanted to make a full vocal album. People always tell me that they love my voice when I'm singing songs. And so I wanted to give it a try. I'm more than proud now with these eleven songs, because the process of composing is something I love, but writing lyrics is very hard for me. Anyway, this time the lyrics came to me easily, and I'm more than happy with them.
One day in December 2017 I was bored and sent an E-Mail with two of the songs to a couple of record companies. Just for fun and - to be honest - without any hope at all. Looking back, I have released everything on my own before. But this time two companies showed interest and got in touch with me - and "boom": One of them gave me a record deal. Hey, no big thing, a very very small one indeed. Meanwhile I've separated from the company since I'm going to start my own label soon hopefully. If you are interested in the lyrics of my songs, please open the lyrics-page.
HAGENMAYER & HUECKSTAEDT: "MUSIC FOR WOOD AND STEEL"
This album is from 2011, but I have to start much earlier: When I was a little boy, my family was living in a small flat in a quite poor area of our town. Anyway, my childhood could not be happier with dozens of kids of my age living in the neighborhood. One of them was Horst Hueckstaedt. Well, getting older and moving a couple of times I've lost contact to most of my childhood friends. Decades later, in 2011, I've read an article about a didgeridoo-festival. The top act was "didgeridoo-superstar Horst Hueckstaedt". Could it be ...? I found some net tracks of him, and a few days later we met in a pub. Followed by a session in my home studio which turned out to be amazing! Didgeridoos, Fujara-flutes and overtone-singing fitted perfectly to my ambient guitar sounds and drones. So we wrote some instrumental tracks and recorded an album in no time. And we have played in many many churches since then, which seemed to be the right choice because of their great natural acoustic. One day he moved away, but I found other didgeridoo-players and continued playing world music festivals up to nowadays. CDs are still available, downloads will always be. Tracks from this album were used in a French TV documentation about Australian aboriginees. The film was played in cinemas around the world and has won many film awards including the French TV-price in 2017. One day, I was asked to provide one of the tracks for a CD-production called "Stand up for the Burrup" - 19 world musicians from all over the world provided tracks for this project. I'm proud to be one of them. The Burrup is a peninsula in Australia, where 50.000 year old historical aboriginal stone and rock art is washed away and damaged forever by acid rain - caused by fracking activities in the area. This needs to be stopped!
MICHAEL HAGENMAYER: "'HALFLIGHT"
How I love this album! I have recorded it in 2010. I realized that it is amazing to take a field-recording and start playing instruments over it. Starting with drones, adding melodies, sounds and moods. Wow, so many pictures in my head, just like a movie you imagine on your own! Many years ago I had bought a quite expensive DAT-recorder (digital audio tape) in size of a walkman in order to record band rehearsals in a good quality. Still got a lot of tape-cassettes for it - they  aren't available anymore nowadays. I got lots of nature sounds and moods that I have recorded while hiking  out in the fields and wilderness. Lots of moods can be found on the net today also. Please stay tuned - I'm remastering these tracks right now.
HAGENMAYER & RETTICH: "ETOSHA"
I have recorded this album 2010 /2011 with my old school buddy Harald Rettich (aka Rettnoise), who was the first of us to become a professional musician after studying jazz guitar. Today he is living in Munich as an experimental musician and filmmaker. Our album was a result of some sessions at my home, too. It's full of wonderful instrumental guitar tracks and melodies. I'm so glad we recorded our sessions and picked out the best of all those beautiful sounds and melodies as a life long memory of these days. The cover photo is from my friend Professor Eberhard A. Kraemer, Stuttgart. Don't wanna miss it!
INTENSIVE CARE: "DIVING OVERTIME"
"Intensive Care" was my first real band that I had founded with my friends Paul Wagner and Ulrich Lutz, both keyboarders. I think it was in the early Eighties. We had one of the first synthesizers, a Roland JX-3P, and Paul and I had spent all our money to buy a Fostex 8-track-multitracker with quite a big mixing console. We had a rehearsal room downstairs of the old church in our hometown. And we recorded hundreds of tracks and songs that we mastered on compact-cassettes, later DAT-tapes. Still got all of them. They are such a huge source of ideas and memories!
We founded our band and wrote songs for a concert evening. We played many concerts with these tracks. After finishing school, the band vanished in the haze. Members moved away in order to study or work, we had our first girl friends - and time for making music got pretty rare. 1992 we all met again for some gigs. We decided to enter a recording studio in order to record our songs as a life-long memory of our younger days. It was a recording week without day and night. We felt like diving no-limit and had the time of our lives. My old friend Hardy Langer painted the cover oil-on-canvas especially for us.