But life is alive

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But life is alive is an Austrian band from Lower Austria .

history

In 1997 Jürgen Hofbauer, Wolfgang Wiesbauer and Florian Emerstorfer founded the band "Aber das Leben Leben" (But life is alive). They play indie - pop and close to Americana and blues , and they are also of musicians such as John Cale and Bob Dylan influences. First of all, they self-published a maxi EP. Through Fritz Ostermayer , to whom they sent a demo cassette, they came into contact with the Viennese music scene and finally moved to Vienna. In 1999 her debut album Rectangles and Triangles as Signs for Love and Pain was released on the small label Höllering. Then they got under contract with Trost Records and released the album Sorrow Beat the following year , which helped them to become better known. Their songs were played on FM4 and the band made appearances on Austria 1 and Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 2004 they released the album Perfect Teen and toured Austria and neighboring countries.

In 2004, Martin Wiesbauer, Wolfgang Wiesbauer's brother, became a member of “But life is alive”. Jürgen Hofbauer left the band the following year. In 2009 they released another album, Hospital Years . In the same year she was nominated for the FM4 Award, which is presented as part of the Amadeus Austrian Music Award . She worked with other musicians such as Marilies Jagsch , Bernhard Fleischmann and Gustav . In 2010 drummer Ralph Wakolbinger, who had previously belonged to the Austrian noise rock group “Mord”, joined the band . In 2011 the next album of "But life is alive" was released under the title New Musketeers at Trost. The band presented it at concerts together with Kreisky and went on tour through Austria and Germany. In 2014 the album Figures and another Austria tour followed.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: Rectangles and Triangles as Signs for Love and Pain (Höllering)
  • 2000: Sorrow Beat ( Trost Records )
  • 2001: Masterpieces of Human Sounds (Trost Records)
  • 2004: Perfect Teen (Trost Records)
  • 2009: Hospital Years ( Sand Records )
  • 2011: New Musketeers (Trost Records)
  • 2014: Figures ( mourning plates )

Singles

  • 2009: We Shall Overcome / Hi-ho Country Boy (Split 7 "single with Gustav , Sand Records)
  • 2012: Just Can't Get Enough (Cover Version, Cover Recordings )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait: But life is alive musicaustria.at. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ But life is alive ( memento of the original from June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. coverrecordings.com. Retrieved June 10, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.coverrecordings.com