Picture book (volume)

Picture book
Picture Book (2016)
General information
origin	Kremsmünster , Austria
Genre (s)	to Die Pest im Piemont (2011): Indie-Rock , Indie-Pop , Post-Punk ; Since Finest Silk (2013): Art Pop , Alternative R&B , Hip-Hop
founding	2005
Website	www.bilderbuch-musik.at
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar	Maurice Ernst
guitar	Michael Krammer (since 2008)
bass	Peter Horazdovsky
Drums	Philipp Scheibl (since 2012)
former members
guitar	Klemens Kranawetter (until 2008)
Drums	Andreas Födinger (until 2012)

Bilderbuch is an Austrian band . Their music shows influences from different genres, u. a. Indie rock , art punk and hip hop . Bilderbuch was founded in Kremsmünster in Upper Austria . The band members have been living in Vienna since 2008 .

history

Founding years

The band was founded in early 2005 by Maurice Ernst (vocals, guitar), Peter Horazdovsky (bass), Andreas Födinger (drums) and Klemens Kranawetter (guitar) in Kremsmünster . At the time, the band members were between 14 and 15 years old. In the following two years, songs such as Kopf Ab and Disco ball were created , with which Bilderbuch gained increasing popularity. At the end of 2007 Zebo Adam and Manfred Franzmeier (then both members of the band Russkaja ) became aware of the group and began working with them on their debut album in 2008. In the autumn of the same year the guitarist Klemens Kranawetter was replaced by Michael Krammer due to personal differences .

First successes with indie rock

In summer 2009 the debut album Nelken & Schillinge was released on the indie label " Schoenwetter Schallplatten ". The single Calypso entered the Austrian Indie Charts at number 4 and is also on the FM4 Soundselection 21. This was followed by regular airplay on the Austrian youth radio station FM4, as well as national and international appearances ( Frequency , Two Days a Week, etc.). The Musikexpress wrote about Nelken & Schillinge : “An album between rock theater, drug rock and Dadaism”. Visions said: "Driving, not too bitchy, recognizable and suitable for the dance floor". In the summer of 2010, Bilderbuch released the request, Herr Märtyrer EP with remixes by Nelken & Schillinge . Participating artists were u. a. I Heart Sharks , Dirty Disco Youth and AG Trio.

The single Caribbean Dreams was released in January 2011. The video for the single was made by director Antonin B. Pevny , who u. a. has already worked with Moby , filmed in the Austrian Alps. It served as inspiration for the music video for Up and Away by Casper , on his “Hinterland Tour 2014” picture book next to Portugal. The Man in the opening act occurred. The concept album Die Pest im Piemont was released on March 18, 2011 ( Schoenwetter Schallplatten / Ink Music ) and Bilderbuch again earned positive reviews. Karl Fluch from Der Standard described Bilderbuch as “one of the most exciting new bands in Austria”. Der Falter wrote about the album Die Pest im Piemont : "It exists in a small art world of its own and convinces with lyrics between slogans and poetry, which some discourse rockers are not granted in long careers". Festival appearances followed ( Dockville , Popkomm , Obstwiesenfestival, etc.) and a major tour through Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In November 2012, the drummer Andreas Födinger left the band.

Change of style and breakthrough

At the beginning of 2013, hip-hop and R&B drummer Philipp Scheibl joined the band. In June 2013 the single Plansch (from the EP Feinste Silk ) was released, which entered the FM4 charts. Noisey / Music by VICE wrote after the release of Plansch : “Maurice, Peter, Mike and Pille are casualness in person. Picture books are probably the only ones besides Kanye West who can use Autotune without sounding absolutely crappy - and in German too ”. The ZIB 24 described the single as the "alternative summer hit of the year".

Picture book with the Amadeus Award 2014

Picture book at the Donauinselfest 2014

Picture book at the Melt -Festival 2015

Picture book at the Air & Style Festival 2017 in Innsbruck

In October 2013 the second single Maschin was released on the band's newly founded label "Maschin Records". Maschin triggered a wave of positive reactions. The features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised: “... when pop is as good as it can rarely be: There are no words to describe it. This music is great because it is great. You have to hear that ”. The cultural broadcaster Austria 1 judged: “Picture books know what makes good pop music”. Flux FM said: "Maschin - one of the greatest hits in the German language". Because of his “excellent work with the moving image” (“superb work with the moving image”) the video for Maschin u. a. nominated at the “Miami International Film Festival” and was voted one of the world's top ten in the “Music Video” category. At the short film festival Vienna Independent Shorts in May 2014, the video was awarded as the best Austrian music video.

The single Maschin is also at the top of various best lists of 2013. Noisey / Music by VICE voted Maschin into the top 3 of their annual charts. In the Musikexpress , Maschin was the highest German-language title of the year. FM4 , Puls (the youth broadcaster of Bayerischer Rundfunk ) and tape.tv awarded Maschin first place in their annual charts. Spotify then put Bilderbuch on its “Spotlight on 2014” list, which includes the most promising acts for 2014. At the Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2014, Bilderbuch were nominated four times, more often than any other act. You won the audience award with the FM4 Award. Maschin was chosen in 2020 by the pop culture magazine The Gap as part of the AustroTOP rankings in second place of the “100 most important Austrian pop songs”.

The singles Spliff and OM were each released with a music video as a pre-release for the band's third album. For the video OM , Lina Simon (idea, concept & creative direction) was nominated for a Theodor König Award , which was first presented in 2015 in Berlin as part of the Echo (music prize), alongside the video managers from Deichkind and Die Fantastischen Vier . On February 27, 2015, Bilderbuch released the album Schick Schock . Since March 2015 the band toured with support Mavi Phoenix through Austria, Germany and Switzerland, before the four announced at their last concert as part of this tour on January 10, 2016 in the Graz Orpheum that they would take an artistic break.

For the Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2016 they were nominated in the categories of Band of the Year , Album of the Year , Live Act of the Year and the Genre Category Pop / Rock , for the FM4 Award and for the Recording Studio Prize. They were honored for the album of the year , they also received the recording studio award .

The piece Spliff is in the movie A Cure for Wellness by Gore Verbinski used. In September 2017, Spliff could also be heard at the presentation of the spring collection of the fashion label Versace as part of London Fashion Week. "A tune which she had become obsessed while watching A Cure for Wellness on Netflix," said Vogue magazine about how Donetalla discovered Versace Spliff .

Continued commercial success with Magic Life

Picture book at the Berlinale 2017

The album Magic Life was released on February 17th, 2017 . The singles Sweetlove , I ♥ Stress , Tell your girls I'm back in town and bungalow have been released in advance until January 2017 .

The songs Maschin, Man has hurt me , head off and A boat for us were used as film music in the 2017 film Wilde Maus by Josef Hader . The song Bungalow was used in 2018 in the second episode of the German-Luxembourgish TV series Bad Banks . It sounds in a scene in a student club.

At the Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2017 , Bilderbuch was awarded in the categories Band of the Year and Live Act of the Year .

Digital change

From March to May 2018, Bilderbuch played their most extensive tour to date. The "Tour 5000" led with two dates in the entire German-speaking area through smaller clubs with a maximum capacity of 1500 people, the band changed the technical implementation of their music to a purely digital production method. Amplifier towers disappeared from the stage, drummer Philipp Scheibl played an e-drum set, the visual implementation took the form of a reduced laser show. Singer Maurice Ernst and guitarist Michael Krammer also changed their looks: Ernst had swapped his hydrogen-blonde short haircut for a brunette part, guitarist Michael Krammer shaved off his long hair and replaced it with hair tattoos.

“What does all of this have to do with music?” Wrote the city newspaper Falter on the occasion of the Vienna Tour 5000 event. “More than it seems at first glance: in a picture book, her art is about constant change, exploring boundaries Risk and a self-defined coolness, in which the ostensibly stupid turns into actually awesome. "

At the end of May 2018 the quartet released the first new song since “Magic Life” with “One Night in Manila”, and major festival appearances followed, including as co-headliners alongside the Gorillaz at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park.

On December 4, 2018, Bilderbuch surprisingly released the new album mea culpa , initially exclusively digital. It had been announced just days earlier on the band's social media channels. In addition, Bilderbuch announced a second new album for February 22, 2019, Vernissage My Heart . It should appear at the same time as the sound carrier version of the mea culpa .

Five days before the launch of Vernissage My Heart , Bilderbuch published the political song Europa 22 , and a fictitious EU passport was offered for download on the website www.bilderbucheuropa.love. It became a social media hit, was used hundreds of thousands of times within a few days and was even posted by German and Austrian politicians. Vernissage My Heart and mea culpa reached number one and two on the Austrian sales charts at the same time.

For the tour for the two new albums, the stage aesthetics changed fundamentally again: the digital stepped into the background in favor of the analog, the colorful Dadaist stage set looked more like a theater than a rock stage. For the tour, Bilderbuch was expanded into a quintet by the Viennese drummer and keyboardist Lukas König. In 2015 he had already taken on the rap part on the song "Softdrink" and accompanied Bilderbuch as a support act as part of their "Schick Schock" tour with his solo project Koenig

As the highlight of the 2019 tour, Bilderbuch played two large open-air concerts in front of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on May 24 and 25, 2019, which were attended by around 30,000 people.

In July 2019, Bilderbuch released the new song “Mr. Refrigerator ”, it was named“ Tune of the Week ”in the BBC One indie show by Jack Saunders. Another new single, “Kitsch”, followed in October, as well as the vinyl EP “Mr. Refrigerator ”, which was sold out on the day it was published.

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		AT	DE	CH
2015	Schick Schock Maschin Records ( Universal )	AT1 platinum (66 weeks)AT	DE14 (7 weeks) DE	CH36 (1 week) CH	First published: February 27, 2015 Sales: + 15,000
2017	Magic Life Maschin Records (Universal)	AT2 gold (28 weeks)AT	DE8 (7 weeks) DE	CH22 (3 weeks) CH	First published: February 17, 2017 Sales: + 7,500
2018	mea culpa Maschin Records (Universal)	AT2 (13 weeks) AT	DE17 (1 week) DE	-	First published: December 4th, 2018
2019	Vernissage My Heart Maschin Records (Universal)	AT1 (... week) AT	DE11 (2 weeks) DE	CH59 (1 week) CH	First published: February 22, 2019

More albums

year	Title music label	Remarks
2009	Nelken & Schillinge Schoenwetter records	First published: August 28, 2009
2011	The plague in Piedmont fine weather records	First published: March 18, 2011

EPs

year	title	Remarks
2010	Please, mister martyr	First published: September 3, 2010
2013	Finest silk	First published: October 11, 2013
2019	Mr. Refrigerator	First published: October 18, 2019

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		AT	DE	CH
2013	Maschin Schick shock	AT56 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	First published: 2013
2014	OM Schick shock	AT72 (1 week) AT	-	-	First published: November 28, 2014
2015	Welcome to the Schick Schock jungle	AT60 (2 weeks) AT	-	-	First published: 2015
2017	Bungalow Magic Life	AT8 (23 weeks) AT	-	-	First published: January 6, 2017
2018	One night in Manila	AT46 (1 week) AT	-	-	First published: June 1, 2018
2019	Mr. Refrigerator	AT67 (1 week) AT	-	-	First published: July 26, 2019

More singles

• 2009: Calypso
• 2010: Head off
• 2010: Please, Mr. Martyr
• 2011: Caribbean dreams
• 2011: The cherries were great
• 2012: a boat for us
• 2013: Splash
• 2014: the finest silk
• 2014: Spliff
• 2015: soft drink
• 2016: Sweetlove
• 2016: I ♥ stress
• 2016: Tell your girls I'm back in town
• 2017: Baba
• 2018: Checkpoint (Never Game Over)
• 2018: Sandwishes
• 2019: LED go
• 2019: Europe 22
• 2019: kitsch

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1. ↑ Party with the band Bilderbuch: "Back in Kremsmünster"! In: Upper Austrian news . OÖN Redaktion GmbH & Co KG, December 28, 2015, accessed on March 13, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Picture Book & Friends: Homecoming Show. In: kremsmuenster.at. Market town of Kremsmünster , accessed on March 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Calypso, Austrian Indie Charts 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ FM4 Soundselection 21
5. ^ "Picture book - carnations and shillings", Musikexpress April 2, 2010
6. ^ "Picture book - carnations and shillings", Visions March 19, 2010, published in VISIONS No. 205
7. ↑ Publication of “Karibische Träume”, ink.music ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Antonin Pevny delivers music video for Moby, Der Standard, Nov. 30, 2011
9. ↑ "We're a little in love", Casper Official on Facebook
10. ^ "Heart and soul in the fast lane", Der Standard, March 17, 2011 (online) and March 18, 2011 (print edition)
11. ↑ "And had the plague on board - on their second album irrlichtern picture book between reflection and intoxication", Der Falter, early 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ Picture book in the rehearsal room, Ö1 Kultur, March 7, 2014
13. ↑ FM4 Charts from July 20, 2013
14. ↑ Noisey - Music by Vice , You Need To Hear This: New Video: Bilderbuch - Plansch
15. ↑ ZIB 24, August 13, 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ^ Official Facebook presence of Bilderbuch
17. ^ Too hot in the freezer, Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 22, 2013
18. ^ Playrooms, Ö1, November 15, 2013
19. ↑ FluxFM Podcast with Bilderbuch, Foals & Filthy Boy (2013/42) ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Miami International Film Festival, Finalists "Music Video"
21. ↑ Die Presse : Austrian Music Video Award 2014 goes to Bilderbuch , May 27, 2014
22. ^ Annual charts 2013, Noisey / Music by VICE
23. ↑ Annual review 2013, Musikexpress
24. ↑ 2013 annual charts, FM4 ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 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. 
25. ↑ Annual charts 2013, Puls ( Memento from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
26. ↑ Annual charts 2013, tape.tv
27. ↑ Spotlight on 2014, Spotify ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
28. ^ "Amadeus Music Awards": Picture book as a favorite, Die Presse, February 24, 2014
29. ↑ FM4's Amadeus Award goes to Bilderbuch . April 1, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
30. ↑ AustroTOP - The 100 most important Austrian pop songs - Page 27 of April 28, 14, 2020, accessed on April 23, 2020 (German). 
31. ^ "Theodor König Award", Rolling Stone, March 2015
32. ↑ Press release: Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2016 - The nominees . Article from January 28, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016.
33. ↑ derStandard.at - Wanda won three “Amadeus” awards . Article dated April 3, 2016, accessed April 3, 2016.
34. ↑ Ten times two: Interview with Maurice Ernst von Bilderbuch at BlogRebellen . Article dated February 16, 2017, accessed February 17, 2017.
35. ↑ Versus Versace Spring 2018 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
36. ↑ Wild Mouse: Film music . Retrieved February 24, 2017.
37. ↑ FM4: And out is the Wild Mouse! . Article dated February 12, 2017, accessed February 24, 2017.
38. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Series "Bad Banks": Episode 5 + 6. In: tittelbach.tv. February 21, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
39. ^ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Amadeus Awards: Old friends and everyone victorious . Article dated May 4, 2017, accessed March 5, 2020.
40. ↑ Picture book. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
41. ↑ Gerhard Stöger: "Alright, Vienna, dance!" In: Falter . No. 11/18 , 2018, pp. 25 .
42. ↑ One night in Manila. June 1, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 . 
43. ↑ History - Rock im Park 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
44. ↑ Bilderbuch announce two new albums. December 4, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 (German). 
45. ↑ "Europa 22": Bilderbuch issue passports for a new Pro-Europa song. February 18, 2019, accessed on December 6, 2019 (German). 
46. ↑ "A Freedom to give away": Picture books issue "EU Passport" - derStandard.at. Retrieved December 6, 2019 (Austrian German). 
47. ↑ Discography picture book - austriancharts.at. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
48. ↑ Maurice Ernst on the new picture book album "Vernissage My Heart". February 21, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 . 
49. ↑ marco wise: Koenig - a royal solo entertainer. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
50. ↑ Picture book. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
51. ↑ Picture book. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
52. ↑ Picture book in Schönbrunn: Where dreams come true. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
53. ↑ It cools you down when you need it: "Mr. Refrigerator" from Bilderbuch. July 26, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 . 
54. ↑ red: Lindsay Lohan on the set of picture book video shoot - Stars. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
55. ↑ PICTURE BOOK on Instagram: "LIMITED VINYL RELEASE DAY -Mr.Refrigerator -Kitsch -Fhotokamera (bonustrack) SOLD OUT / thanks ???????". Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
56. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Austria Germany Switzerland
57. ↑ ifpi.at
58. ↑ "Please, Herr Märtyrer" EP publication, ink.music ( memento of the original from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
59. ↑ Limited Vinyl Release Day. In: @bilderbuchmusik (Twitter). 2019, accessed on December 6, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Picture Book (Volume)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about picture books in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Picture book at The Bomber of Hearts
• Picture book at Ink Music
• Picture book at laut.de
• Picture book at Discogs (English)
• Die Zeit ist Now - Cover story by The Gap on the band's career, January 26th, 2015