Andreas Spechtl

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Andreas Spechtl (2013)

Andreas Spechtl (* 1984 in Oberpullendorf , Burgenland ) is an Austrian musician and author. Among other things, he is the singer, guitarist and songwriter of the group Ja, Panik , publishes solo records and works as a producer and composer at the theater.

Life

Andreas Spechtl grew up in Burgenland, Austria. In 2005 he founded the group Ja, Panik , together with the musicians Stefan Pabst, Christian Treppo and Manuel Dinhof in Vienna , which in 2014 was described by the Austrian standard as the “most important band in the German-speaking area”. Since Spechtl played guitar on the doors album ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ in 2012 , he has been active in the group as a guitarist and keyboardist. In 2017, Spechtl founded the performance project GHOSTDANCE together with Thomas Köck , which was shown at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna and at the Basel Theater , among others . In addition to his work as a musician, Spechtl also works as a producer, including for Christiane Rösinger. In 2016, Verbrecher Verlag published the book Futur II, a collectively written autobiography of the group Ja, Panik.

Solo projects

In 2015 Spechtl released his first solo album, Sleep . The follow-up, Thinking About Tomorrow, and How to Build It , was released in 2017. The musician recorded the album for the most part in Tehran , where he stayed for two months thanks to a scholarship. Spechtl was particularly interested in changing his perspective, as he explained to Deutschlandfunk : "For a year now I had the idea of ​​traveling to one of the countries where European fear is concentrated and of living there longer ( ...) and in the best case, to get something of the life from there. ”Spechtl's third solo record Strategies was partly made in Mexico. The Taz writes about the album: "In the second track," The Separate ", the sheer amount of artistic expression, from Kraftwerk to Michael Rother, faces people who" darken themselves ". The romanticism of the music carries boxing matches with the biographies of Spechtl's companions Listeners can literally see the neon lights on the ceilings of the rooms in which “The Separate” is being staged as a contemporary drama. It can tear the heart apart in a way like Mimi's death in Puccini's opera “La Bohème”. "

BBC Radio 3 says about the album: "Andreas Spechtl offers a survival strategy for the new world in the form of motoric beats, catchy hooks and cutting lyrics."

Discography

Solo albums

  • 2015: Sleep - Sleep ( State Act )
  • 2017: Thinking About Tomorrow, and How to Build It ( Bureau B )
  • 2019: Strategies (Bureau B)

Other publications

  • 2018: Moebius Story Leidecker / Andreas Spechtl (EP, Bureau B)

Theater (selection)

Web links

Commons : Andreas Spechtl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yes, panic: "You can't get more black" - derStandard.at. Retrieved January 7, 2020 (Austrian German).
  2. ↑ KUDLICH IN AMERIKA - Playhouse. Accessed January 7, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Calmly disaffected. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Luise Checchin: Future II: The group Yes, Panik. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Just fall asleep. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ Uwe Schütte: Andreas Spechtl: Audible denial. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Spechtl: "Thinking About Tomorrow, And How To Build It" - The Sound of Tehran. Accessed January 7, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ “I practically tried to reprogram my band a bit” - ANDREAS SPECHTL in an interview with mica. May 23, 2019, accessed on January 8, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ Kristof Schreuf: Andreas Spechtl's album, "Strategies": Strategies against burning beds . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 25, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 5, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Spechtl, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberpullendorf , Burgenland