Schmied's pulse

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Schmied's pulse
Schmieds Puls / Mira Lu Kovacs (2018)
Schmieds Puls / Mira Lu Kovacs (2018)
General information
origin Vienna , Austria
Genre (s) Singer-Songwriter - Pop
founding 2013
Website www.schmiedspuls.com
Current occupation
Mira Lu Kovacs
Drums , vocals, guitar
 Kathrin Kolleritsch
Bass, vocals
 Beate Wiesinger
former members
Walter Singer (2013-2019)
Drums
 Christian Grobauer (2013-2019)

Schmieds Puls is the musical alter ego of the Austrian singer-songwriter Mira Lu Kovacs (vocals, guitar, electronics ) and at the same time the name of a band project that she started in 2013 with Walter Singer on double bass and Christian Grobauer on drums and since the beginning In 2019 she will continue with a new line-up and under her own name. The stylistic spectrum ranges between jazz , folk and alternative pop .

history

Schmieds Puls ( Waves Vienna 2014)

Kovacs, who was born in Burgenland , attended, among other things, the Vienna Music School . She learned to play the guitar over ten years at various music schools. She studied jazz singing for two years, but dropped out; on the one hand because this form of singing did not meet their expectations, on the other hand to devote themselves entirely to songwriting . The environment of the JazzWerkstatt Wien , a musicians' collective that has been organizing projects and events since 2004, was important for their musical development . Through a project by the musician David Six , she got to know the long-time jazz musicians Walter Singer and Christian Grobauer, and the idea for Schmieds Puls developed to present her songs in a band formation. For her two band colleagues it was a welcome step in a new musical direction. The trio's debut album, Play Dead, was released in September 2013 and contained rearranged versions of pieces that Kovacs had previously played solo, which were further developed together with Singer and Grobauer.

In October 2015 Schmieds Puls presented their second album, I Care a Little Less About Everything Now . In terms of content and music, a continuation of the reduced sound of their first album, funds from electronic music were also used, which Kovacs had been interested in for a long time in addition to their songwriting, which was focused on singing and guitar.

Schmieds Puls with EsRap, opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2018

The band has so far performed mainly in Austria as well as in Germany, France, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. In 2016 Schmieds Puls won the FM4 Award, an audience award that is presented as part of the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards . From the collaboration between Kovacs and the Kompost 3 quartet, which was also created in the vicinity of the JazzWerkstatt, the band 5K HD developed in 2016 , which was nominated in 2018 for the FM4 Award as well as in the categories Jazz / World / Blues and the recording studio award Best Sound of the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards was. In 2019 they released their second album, High Performer. In addition, Mira Lu Kovacs appears solo as well as with other musicians and in other projects, for example with My Ugly Clementine or a new interpretation of Die Arbeiter von Wien with the duo EsRap at the opening of the Wiener Festwochen 2018 and later at Thursday demonstrations or with Clemens Wenger arranged a chamber music program at the Glatt & Verkehrt Festival . Manic Acid Love, the third Schmieds-Puls album, was released in September 2018.

At the beginning of 2019, Kovacs announced on Facebook that the Schmieds Puls band project had been dissolved in its previous form and that the upcoming live concerts with musicians Kathrin Kolleritsch and Beate Wiesinger would take place.

Schmieds Puls (2016)
Schmieds Puls (2016)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I Care a Little Less About Everything Now
  AT 54 10/30/2015 (1 week)
Manic Acid Love
  AT 13 09/21/2018 (1 week)

Discography

Albums

  • 2013: Play Dead (JazzWerkstatt Records)
  • 2015: I Care a Little Less About Everything Now (Seayou Records / Rough Trade Records )
  • 2018: Manic Acid Love (Play Dead Records / Rough Trade Records )

Singles

  • 2016: Streets [Cid Rim Remix]
  • 2016: Easy

Web links

Commons : Schmieds Puls  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b mica : “There is a touch of nothing before you ...” - Interview with Mira Lu Kovacs , October 19, 2015
  2. ↑ mica : Interview with Schmieds Puls , June 12, 2014
  3. ↑ orf.at - FM4 Award at Amadeus goes to Schmied's pulse . Article dated March 1, 2016, accessed March 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ The nominees for the 18th Amadeus Austrian Music Awards have been confirmed Article from February 20, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ EsRAP (Youtube): Vienna Festival Week Opening 2018 - EsRAP & Mira Lu , May 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Glatt & Verkehrt 2019: Clemens Wenger arranges the compositions by Mira Lu Kovacs
  7. ↑ FM4 : FM4 surprise concert with Schmieds Puls , September 6, 2018
  8. ↑ Schmieds Puls on Facebook : Message about the breakup of the band , March 21, 2019
  9. ↑ Schmieds Puls on Facebook : Message about the new live line-up , April 17, 2019
  10. ↑ Chart discography Austria (austriancharts.at)