Angizia
| Angizia | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Metal , avant-garde , classic |
| founding | 1994 |
| Website | http://www.angizia.com |
| Founding members | |
| Michael Haas | |
| Cedric Müller (until 1997) | |
| Johannes Amon (until 1998) | |
| Emmerich Haimer | |
| Current occupation | |
protagonist |
Michael Haas |
soprano |
Irene Denner (since 1997) |
Classical guitar, bass, vocals |
Jochen Stock (since 1998) |
Vocals (bass buffo) |
Rainer Guggenberger (since 1998) |
Painting / artwork |
Gabriele Böck (since 1997) |
Angizia is an Austrian band. It was founded in 1994 by radio play composer and essayist Michael Haas.
Band history
Michael Haas started the Angizia project in the winter of 1994 with the idea of setting nature-related poetry to music. Together with the pianist Cedric Müller and the guitarist Emmerich Haimer, the demo Nordheim was created in 1995 , but it was never published and was transferred piece by piece to later albums in terms of content and music. Towards the end of the same year, however, they created a demo called Kissarna, limited to 200 pieces .
The ensemble first became known through the split CD with the Austrian black metal band Amestigon . With three pieces they contributed to the fact that the album together caught the attention of the underground scene due to Angizia's very stubborn style. The intensive collaboration between Haas and Müller had meanwhile developed into a friendship and together they worked on their debut album Die Kemenaten scarlet lights . Ever since this album, reviewers have found it difficult to classify Angizia in any genre. Many listeners couldn't do much with the complex music anymore and nodded Angizia as another band somewhere in the underground.
Haas' urge to use dramatic theater as the basis for music was made clear again in 1997 with Hanna Anikin's Diary . Back together with Cedric Müller, the diaries of the Russian beggar child Hanna Anikin were used to write a libretto . Irene Denner appeared for the first time as a soprano and Gabriele Böck, in cooperation with the Angizia collective, created the image Weg zum Flug , a metaphorical interpretation of the lyrics on the album. After the work, the ensemble said goodbye to founding member Cedric Müller. The exact background has not yet been made public, but it is obvious that the previous collaboration between Müller and Haas must have turned into competition and disagreement.
Michael Haas had been working on a novel with the title The Chessboard of the Drum Boy Zacharias for some time and now had the desire to musically translate this template into an album of the same name. To this end, he hired new musicians, such as the drummer Moritz Neuner ( Dornenreich , Leaves' Eyes , Korova / Korovakill and many more), Christof Niederwieser (Korova / Korovakill), who already contributed his extraordinary voice to The Diary of Hanna Anikin , Jochen Stock, the Head of the Austrian band Dornenreich and also the violinist Roland Bentz . With The Chessboard of the Drum Boy Zacharias , an epic , Russophile work came to the public, which tells the listener the story of two chess players who gradually question and criticize the Russian system life.
2001 was the climax of the Angizia project, the album 39 Years for the Organ Grinder . Michael Haas described a tragic, philosemitic piece, which tells the story of four Jewish musicians who leave their hometown Lviv to indulge in comedy with beggars and poor people and to enrich cold Russia with humor and comedy. For the actual occupation of the group came accordionist Krzysztof Dobrek and the clarinet Bernhard Seibt it. Musically, the album was based on traditional Yiddish klezmer compositions, polka passages and singing, which is reminiscent of a visit to the theater due to its very strong emotional depth and commitment.
The 2004 album Ein Toter geht like Ringelspiel takes up the content of the death of the protagonist Elias Hohlberg from the previous album, and describes the bitter transformation of the Jewish minstrel into a dancing skeleton in the Königsberg cemetery. The story is set to music in a mixture of jazz, metal, klezmer and rock. Also on this album, the partly crying, partly screaming, partly laughing voices of Michael Haas, Jochen Stock, Irene Denner and Rainer Guggenberger are special.
After a five-year break, Haas and Haimer started working together again. The band's sixth album was finally released on February 11, 2011 under the title kokon. A gruesomely beautiful piece of the box . On March 15, 2013, the seventh album Des Winters finsterer Gesell was released.
Discography
- 1996: Heidebilder / Mysterious Realms ( Split -CD with Amestigon )
- 1997: The kemenaten of scarlet lights
- 1997: Hanna Anikin's diary
- 1998: The chessboard of the drum boy Zacharias
- 2001: 39 years for the organ grinder
- 2004: A dead person likes to drive a ring game
- 2011: cocoon. A gruesomely beautiful piece of the box
- 2013: The darkest companion of winter