78plus

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78plus
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General information
origin Vienna , AustriaAustriaAustria 
Genre (s) Electronic music , chansons , hits , pop music
founding 2002
Website 78plus.net
Current occupation
Vocals , guitar , electronics,
synthesizers , accordion
Günther Berger
Philipp Moosbrugger
Erwin "sake lushi" Schober
Synthesizer, electronics,
vocals, accordion,
electric bass , acoustic guitar
Stephan “5no” Sperlich
Live and session members
Live visuals , video production, graphics
Roman Vogl
Sound engineering , technical implementation, post-production
Matthias Erian
Julian Gabriel

78plus is an Austrian band from Vienna . The ensemble plays a mixture of electronic music , hits , chansons and jazz arrangements.

Band history

The band was founded in 2002 by the artist Otto Jekel and the multi-instrumentalist Stephan Sperlich. Another member was added with the singer Günther Berger. The originally open project grew into a band in 2004 with drummer Erwin Schober and double bass player Philipp Moosbrugger. The name is based on the playing speed of the shellac record, i.e. 78 min −1 . In 2004 the first single Sie will / Im Denkturm was released as a 10 '' LP . She will was also published on Sound Selection Vol. 11 , the sampler series of the radio station FM4 . In 2005 the debut album Im Denkturm followed .

In 2005, the band set the silent film Asphalt to music for the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg . In 2006, a Mozart biography from 1921, which was believed to be lost, was set to music for the Filmarchiv Austria and 3sat as part of the Mozart Year 2006 . In the same year the band was nominated for the FM4 Award , which is presented as part of the Amadeus Austrian Music Award .

In 2009 the band directed the music for the play What Crisis? of the Aktionstheater Ensemble and also played a part. In 2011, the ensemble and its cooperation with 78plus translated Zukunftsmaschine of Martin Gruber continued. The play premiered on March 13, 2011 in the Bregenz Festival and Congress House . This was followed by Working Pure , in which Sperlich and Berger worked together with the punk band The Result of Boredom .

In 2013 78plus took part in the musical Here Comes the Crook by the performance collective The Loose Collective. The piece is based on The Black Crook , which is generally considered to be the first musical ever.

Music genre

78plus sees itself as an artist collective, consisting of musicians who come from classical music , jazz instrumentalists and visual artists. The ensemble works with the shellac record collection of the Vienna-based artist Otto Jekel. The records were sampled and form the basis for new mostly German-language pieces. Musically, you are not tied to any style, the music oscillates between chanson , pop , jazz and drum & bass . In addition to the musical presentation, the visual is also important. The live performances are complemented by video art , appropriate stage design and costumes. The ensemble not only refers to the original shellac music of the early 20th century, but also has references to the 1980s, such as Roger Whittaker and Kraftwerk . 78plus sees itself as a discourse pop that tries to “put many types of music in new contexts”. The lyrics of the first album Im Denkturm go in a socially critical, political direction, while the lyrics of the second album Wandelwelt thematize the relationship between people and technology. A certain influence of the Viennese Schmäh is unmistakable in the texts.

Discography

Albums

Singles & EPs

  • 2004: She wants / Im Denkturm ( 10`` , Para Recordings)
  • 2006: Zwischenwelt EP (10``, 19industries)
  • 2012: Dogs Wool Boogie / Space Activity (7``, Acre of Bacon)

Film and theater music

  • 2005: Asphalt (silent film screening for the Essl Museum )
  • 2006: Mozart's life, love and suffering (silent film, setting for 3sat )
  • 2008: Suddenly burst ( Action Theater Ensemble )
  • 2008: Heimat (Action Theater Ensemble)
  • 2009: what crisis? (Action Theater Ensemble)
  • 2010: Ulysses Roadmovie (Action Theater Ensemble)
  • 2011: Future Machine (Action Theater Ensemble)
  • 2011: Working Pure (Action Theater Ensemble)
  • 2013: Here Comes the Crook (The Loose Collective)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FM4 Soundselection: 11. Hitparade.ch, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ ASPHALT Live setting of the silent film "Asphalt" (1929, Joe May) by Ensemble 78plus. (No longer available online.) Essl Museum , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved August 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b 78plus. Booking agency Barbara Vockenhuber, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Martin Zellhofer: In an interview with 78plus: Old hits meet contemporary electronics. (No longer available online.) LoungeFM , January 16, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ action theater ensemble - WHICH CRISIS? Spielboden.at, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Future machine. Kultur-online.net, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Dagmar Ullmann-Bautz: Pure Theaterlust - "Working Pure", the world premiere of the action theater ensemble on the Dornbirner Spielboden. Kulturzeitschrift, December 2, 2011, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Tanzwerkstatt Europa starts with The Loose Collective in Munich ( Memento from August 20, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
  9. ↑ Andreas Haug: Heard and seen: 78plus - Im Denkturm. Rockszene, December 8, 2006, accessed August 20, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Rosa Danner: 78plus - A truck full of shellac. Skug - Journal for Music , May 18, 2009, accessed August 20, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Mirco erbe : 78PLUS - In the think tank. Popmonitor, January 30, 2006, accessed August 15, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Tiz Schaffer: Wandelwelt - 78Plus . In: Falter . No. 14 , 2008 ( falter.at ).
  13. ↑ http://filmarchiv.at/show_content.php?sid=212 Genealogie {Dead Link | url = http: //filmarchiv.at/show_content.php? Sid = 212 | date = 2018-08 | archivebot = 2018-08 -21 12:11:27 InternetArchiveBot}} (link not available)