Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack

Birgit Muggenthaler

Birgit Ines Muggenthaler-Schmack (born January 2, 1974 in Munich ) is a German folk musician who became known to a larger audience through her appearances with the folk rock band Schandmaul and the folk group Sava .

biography

Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack is a state-certified ensemble leader in the classics department, a qualified landscape architect and Feng Shui consultant. She received classical training on recorder , piano, flute, double bass and singing. In numerous workshops at home and abroad she devoted herself to folk music and the instruments whistle , bagpipes , rauschpfeife , shawm and hurdy-gurdy .

From 1997, Muggenthaler-Schmack appeared with the band Flange, which played French dance music. A short time later she co-founded the folk bands Schandmaul (1998) and Faun (1999). She separated from Faun in 2000. While Faun initially played folk song-like, later so-called pagan folk, with historical instruments , Schandmaul can be assigned to folk or medieval rock due to the use of elements of rock music . In 2004 Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack worked again with Oliver "SaTyr" Pade von Faun under the name Sava . Sava has released three albums with new folk music. After the first album Aire (November 22, 2004) Sava released the second album Metamorphosis on November 7, 2008 and the album Labyrinth on May 25, 2012 . Since June 2009 Sava have also been performing live. Oliver Pade has not been part of the team since the third album.

Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack completed a 2-year advanced training course "Music of the Middle Ages - Early Music of the High Classes" with Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky at the Academy Burg Fürsteneck . In addition to her music projects, she teaches bagpipes and flute. Together with Ulrike Fritsch she organizes "game courses" for bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy and accordion in Agatharied in Upper Bavaria.

So far ten studio albums and three live albums have been released with Schandmaul. The band has already played around 600 gigs.

Birgit Muggenthaler-Schmack is married, has two children (son and daughter) and lives in Regensburg .

Discography

With Sava

• 2004: Aire ( Curzweyhl , Rough Trade )
• 2008: Metamorphosis (Banshee Records, Alive)
• 2012: Labyrinth (Banshee Records, Alive)

With a shameful mouth

See Schandmaul / discography

As a guest musician

• 2002: Faun - magic spells (Curzweyhl / Rough Trade)
• 2003: Stoppok - Bla-Bla Nonstop (basic sound)
• 2005: Tanzwut - Immer noch wach (feat.Schandmaul) , single (Pica Music)
• 2006: Tanzwut - Schattenreiter (Pica Music)
• 2008: Albi's Corner - Off the Hook (self-distribution)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Muggenthaler. In: schandmaul.de. Schandmaul, accessed on August 1, 2019 .