First Viennese home organ orchestra

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First Viennese home organ orchestra
General information
Genre (s) Synth pop
founding 1994
Website www.ewho.at
Founding members
Thomas Pepper
Jürgen Plank
Daniel Wisser
Florian Wisser

The First Wiener Heimorgelorchester (EWHO) is a synth-pop band from Vienna that plays exclusively on mini synthesizers and keyboards . Together with Bernhard Fleischmann , Fennesz , the Duo505 and others , the band is an integral part of the contemporary Viennese electronic music scene and is regularly represented on the youth culture channel FM4 and the cultural channel Ö1 . The First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra was founded in 1994 by Thomas Pfeffer, Jürgen Plank, Daniel Wisser and Florian Wisser and has played in this line-up ever since. The repertoire of the First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra consists of songs with German-language texts and instrumental numbers. Like other low-tech and 8-bit sound bands, the EWHO relies entirely on the sounds of its organs when it comes to rhythm, while similar bands such as Aavikko or Apparat Organ Quartet use natural drums. The lyrics of the EWHO make the pop song itself a topic again and again.

history

The First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra initially played covers of well-known pop songs until it began to write its own songs with German-language texts. In addition to the six recordings so far, commissioned compositions for theater and film have been created. Since 2004 the band can be seen together with Philipp Hochmair and Bibiane Zeller in Peter Handke's play Untertagblues in the production of Friederike Heller at the Vienna Burgtheater . The song "Frustrationtoleranz" can also be heard in the performance. With its album "AUTO PLAY" the EWHO consolidated its style as a pop band. Under the title "In the Air Tonight" the EWHO performed live on behalf of the Wiener Festwochen 2006 to silent films on the subject of "Flying". 2009 EWHO won with his song "Resistance is ohms" the annual in Vienna Rabenhoftheater organized protest song contest . A portrait of the First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra can be seen in the 3sat documentary "Donauwaves - Junge Musik in Wien" by Siegfried Steinlechner. The album "Ütöpie" (2012) also contains the setting of the poem "The North American Lying Around" by the German poet Ror Wolf . Robert Pfaller quotes two lines from the song "Vaduz" as the chapter heading in his book "Second Worlds". In 2014 the First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra released the album "Die Mensch-Maschine", which is a complete cover of the album of the same name by the band Kraftwerk . In 2016, the First Vienna Home Organ Orchestra set two poems by the writer Clemens J. Setz to music . In 2018 the album "The Latvians will be the Estonians" was released, which made the band known in Germany and Sweden . Two lyrics on this album were written by the writer Antonio Fian .

Sound carrier

  • The monkeys (CD, 1999)
  • Gemma Disco (vinyl single, 2001)
  • We only borrowed the organs from our children (CD, Trost Records, 2003)
  • Autoplay (CD, don't bother, 2005)
  • Vaduz (vinyl single, Hertzschnitt, 2008)
  • It will have been nice (CD, monkey, 2009)
  • Jewels of Electronica (EP, monkey, 2010)
  • Ütöpie (CD, monkey, 2012)
  • Transformer # 1 (EP, monkey, 2013)
  • Transformer # 2 (EP, monkey, 2013)
  • The human machine (CD / vinyl LP, monkey, 2014)
  • Transformer # 3 (EP, monkey, 2014)
  • Happy Lamento (CD, OHM Records, 2015)
  • Transformator # 4 (EP, OHM Records, 2015)
  • Rund (EP, OHM Records, 2016), Lyrics: Clemens J. Setz
  • The Latvians will be the Estonians (CD / LP, OHM Records, 2018)

Books

  • resistance is ohm (don't bother, Vienna 2015)

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