Gunter Hampel has been played on NTS shows including Sees to Exist Show, with (No. 204) Sonnenschein first played on 4 June 2017.

Gunter Hampel (born August 31, 1937) is a German jazz vibraphonist, clarinetist, saxophonist, flautist, pianist and composer born in Göttingen, Germany, perhaps best-known for his album "The 8th of July 1969" that included fellow musicians Anthony Braxton, Willem Breuker and Jeanne Lee. Jeanne, now deceased, was Gunter's wife.

Hampel became dedicated to free-jazz in the 1960s, developing his own record label (Birth Records), and worked with a variety of artists over the years, including John McLaughlin, Laurie Allan, Udo Lindenberg and Perry Robinson….