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Franz Bilik & his Brogressiv Schrammeln
"And only the bourgeois has his say. / Ma censored as leftist, / Who dares criticism and protest." (Franz Bilik, interprets: "Put me down")
There's this one picture that's been haunting me for years. The picture of the successful kitsch singer singing on a mountain peak is proud to be "from Austria", courtesy of the ORF and thus reaching an audience of millions - while the other singer, who played a pioneering role in the Austrian singer-songwriter scene like almost no other, was stubbornly ignored by the ORF, even after he crashed while climbing the Hohe Wand and died shortly afterwards. This cynicism stands, so to speak, for what has always happened in the "land of hammers", freely according to the motto "Man is only through the party". Franz Bilik, who died in 1983, was "one of the forefathers of the critical songwriters", "the actual inventor of the dialect wave in Austro-Pop", "the grandfather of all Viennese songwriters", "a legendary original", "the wine drinking jazz musician", "the cabaret entertainer", "the language-critical mocker". What was left of him? Curiously just an album from 1973 under his name, thankfully re-released on Extraplatte on CD on the initiative of Evelyn Hruby-Sperker. You can hear how far ahead Franz Bilik was. His lyrics were set to music with great success by the Worried Men Skiffle Group, and his work for Drahdiwaberl brought him at least close to a higher degree of fame in the last year of his life. What distinguished him as a singer-songwriter was his strange musicality, a lightning between jazz, blues and Wienerlied, but above all he was a master of the word. Language games, in which one can easily guess that his general education was a great one, about foolishness and abuses of the time, not least a critic who was already thinking about the environment in the early 70s. The great genius of the singer-songwriter scene in Austria, buried, but not forgotten.
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Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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