Sound — music projects
Folk music, jazz, Nordic folk, funk and cabaret – the bands and projects I play in, write for and help shape.
New solo project · Live electronics · Accordion · Visuals
Styrian accordion, kalimba and percussion meet analog effects and modular synthesizers. Melodic fragments from Alpine and Nordic folk music are recorded live, transformed and looped – accompanied by real-time visuals by Madeleine Haider that enter into a dialogue with the music.
Trio · Styrian accordion, vibraphone, marimba
Quetsch ’n’ Vibes brings musical worlds together: the folk music of the Styrian accordion merges with the jazzy sound of the vibraphone, earthy marimba tones and many other exotic instruments. The result is a river of new sounds and colors on which the trio deftly navigates between worlds.
New folk music
Sturm & Klang are at home in folk music – but not the kind of home where everything has its fixed place; rather one where the furniture gets moved around and the walls are painted in bright colors. Feeling and a love of art instead of strict logic, without forgetting their roots: that’s how undiscovered soundscapes emerge on the way to the future of folk music.
Musical cabaret · “verhåckert”
The musical cabaret “verhåckert” tells – loosely based on Wilhelm Rudnigger and Peter Rosegger – the story of young Valentin Blendenbauer. He falls head over heels for the “Diandl im Hütterl übern Bacherl beim Bam” (the girl in the little hut by the brook under the tree) and has to fight his way all the way up to the Lord himself with the all-important question “Derf i’s Dirndle liabn?” (May I love the girl?). The redeeming answer: “Wegan Biabal haun i’s Diandle gmocht!” (I made the girl for the lad’s sake!)
Songs between Viennese song, chanson & swing
Listening to Seitinger & Maierhofer, you picture Ludwig Hirsch casually meeting Édith Piaf and Django Reinhardt for a beer – and happening to have a guitar with him. Together they sing about the beauty and the roughness of everyday life.
Accordion, piano, drums, bass & three-part vocals
An anagram is made by rearranging letters to find a new word. With us, the name says it all: a nod to our frontwoman Anna Hiden and a play on music and words. Styrian accordion, piano, drums, bass and three-part vocals add up to a grounded, honest, earthy sound – with German lyrics that take no detours. Goosebumps guaranteed.
Duo · Nordic & Austrian Folk
With intimate interplay and a rare, loving eye for rhythmic and agogic nuances, the duo Tim & Jonnic approaches Nordic and Austrian folk traditions – with open eyes, playfulness and respect for the music, the people and the stories behind it.
Duo · Folk music in the here and now
The Styrian duo Tubonika looks for something different and finds its luck in combining old and new – a respectful break with tradition. The two bring folk music into the present, open it up and cross it, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, with elements of other musical forms and styles.
Funk · Pop · Soul from Graz
Candlelight Ficus is long past being a brittle houseplant – it’s a big musical tree, and it’s growing like crazy. At the energetic live shows of the Graz funk-pop band, no foot stays still: earthy grooves, catchy pop melodies and archaic soul elements, straight to the bones. The sun is out.
Orchestras, big bands, ensembles and artists I’ve had the pleasure of sharing the stage and the studio with over the years – from brass band music to jazz and klezmer to Viennese song.
