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Roland Neuwirth & Extreme Schrammeln
"The Austrians who have lost their melody have lost themselves. Hitler and the non-musicality of the high school teachers have succeeded in making the boys laugh at their own folk music and feel ashamed of it." (Roland Neuwirth)
The loner and quiet broody Roland Josef Leopold Neuwirth began his musical career in the 1960s with the replay of songs from the Spencer Davis Group, which brought him to jazz and blues; later he played in the evening in the swing and Dixie band Blue Note Seven and worked during the day in a party print shop. "It was in Jazzland when the crack came," says Neuwirth. "I noticed that my cobbled together blood texts had somehow become empty. Suddenly my whole view of the world collapsed and I realized that I was not a colored man, but 'born in Floridsdorf' and not in Chicago." H. C. Artmann's 'Med ana schwoazzn Dintn' and his Villon translations had long since become the Bible for Neuwirth, and so the circle closed. Neuwirth moved from the Partendruckerei to the Musikhochschule, began composing and founded a Schrammelquartett (the 'Schrammeln' formed the climax of popular Viennese music at the end of the 19th century). With the death of the brothers Johann and Josef Schrammel, the special timbre of the quartet, which was only revived in 1964, fell into oblivion). In the early 70s the bassist and guitarist played with Franz Bilik & his Brogressivschrammeln before releasing his first album in 1978. He found his own handwriting with his second LP 'Alles ist hin'. It contains about you are mei' Kitt'lfålt'n, one of the most beautiful and atmospheric love songs between Vienna, Floridsdorf and Paris, Texas. "There you stay," wrote journalist Christian Seiler, "although you already know the songs so well [...], the air is gone. You breathe when you listen with all the caution you know not to disturb." Until today Neuwirth's songs breathe wonderful word jokes and mood pictures about love, death and politics. The musician himself: "If you see it with the chanson claim, I don't think I am so gifted. Let's put it this way: I think I write quite well. With me there is every rhyme, every story - that's clear, but I would be embarrassed if it weren't so. If you rhyme wrongly, that would be a hearing defect, as my favourite poet Peter Rühmkorf once said."
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Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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