Attwenger

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Attwenger
Attwenger (Vienna 2008) Markus Binder (left), Hans-Peter Falkner (right)
Attwenger (Vienna 2008)
Markus Binder (left), Hans-Peter Falkner (right)
General information
Genre (s) New folk music
founding 1991
Website www.attwenger.at
Current occupation
Markus Binder
Hans-Peter Falkner

Attwenger is an Upper Austrian two-man band that belongs to the new folk music .

history

In 1989 the band Urfahraner breakthrough was founded in the Linz “ Stadtwerkstatt ”. They played traditional folk music with two violins, the Styrian harmonica, guitar and bass violin. After only two years, the group split up into two successor groups due to different musical views: the Urfahraner Aufgeiger and Attwenger. The name Attwenger comes from a Gstanzl that was played on the Upper Austrian regional radio.

Attwenger are Markus Binder (drums, vocals, jew's harp) and Hans-Peter Falkner (Styrian harmonica, vocals).

Attwenger has worked with various international musicians and groups, such as the British avant-garde guitarist Fred Frith or the Serbian Roma brass band Boban Marković Orkestar .

In 1995 the Attwenger film was released, a portrait of the musicians with concert recordings, video clip-like adaptations of some songs and interviews with fellow musicians. In 2003 Attwenger received the FM4-Alternative Act- Amadeus Austrian Music Award . In 2007 the first single from the new Texta album Paroli was published in collaboration with Attwenger (So ​​schnö kaust gor net) schaun . Numerous appearances worldwide followed.

In 2013 CLUBS was released (Live CD and Roadmovies DVD) . According to Attwenger's own description, a virtual Attwenger concert with live samples from 2001–2012.
The guest musicians were: Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Harri Stojka and Sigi Maron. On October 26, 2013, Attwenger's 700th live performance took place in the Rocket Club, Landshut.

  • Markus Binder

  • Hans-Peter Falkner

style

In the course of its development, the band has developed various adaptations of traditional dialect music , which are only combined with texts written in dialect . Initially particularly strong borrowings were made from punk (feedback and up-tempo on plow ), hip-hop ("black" rhythms, accordion as a loop element on air ) and drum and bass (endless trance numbers with meandering, repetitive singing on the song ), until the typical Attwenger sound emerged as a unique appropriation of Central European folklore.

On the albums dog and flux the elements blues , rock 'n' roll and breakcore are added. The texts are partly clearly socially critical, partly more dadaistic .

A typical language game are the titles of some albums, which can be read both in English and in Upper Austrian dialect, but sometimes have different meanings:

  • song: “say” in dialect, “song” in English
  • sun: "sun" in dialect and in English
  • dog: "day" in dialect, "dog" in English
  • spot: "late" in dialect, "(Blick) Punkt" in English
  • hintn umi / hitting on me: "around the back" in dialect, "hit, harass" in English

Discography

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
AT AT
1992 plow AT31 (3 weeks)
AT
1993 air AT30 (3 weeks)
AT
1997 song AT26 (7 weeks)
AT
2002 Sun AT10 (12 weeks)
AT
2005 Dog AT12 (5 weeks)
AT
2011 Flux AT4 (16 weeks)
AT
2013 Clubs AT43 (1 week)
AT
2015 Spot AT12 (7 weeks)
AT

More albums

  • 1990: Auf da Oim gengan the Kia (CD, MC)
  • 1991: Most (LP, CD, MC)
  • 1993 :! Jumble! (CD-MINI)
  • 2006: dog2 remixes (LP, CD)
  • 2007: the Kia (CD) (extended new edition of: Auf da Oim gengan the Kia 1990)

Movies

Two long documentaries were made about Attwenger:

  • 1995: Attwengerfilm
  • 2006: Attwenger Adventure (premiered on April 24, 2007 as part of the Crossing Europe Festival in the Moviemento cinema in Linz )

In 2010, Attwenger were also an important part of the documentary Es muss was gab , which addresses the emergence of the alternative music scene in Linz .

Web links

Commons : Attwenger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: AT