Artist Genre Category: Folk

The band SATUO was formed by the classical guitarist Aron Saringer and the Finnish jazz singer Laura Korhonen in Vienna in 2011. The guitarist and banjo player Fabian Baumgartner joined in 2014. In the meantime the band has grown to include five … read more »

Sofia Labropoulou is a kanun player, composer and improviser who has developed a distinct sound from masterfully blending the worlds of folk, classical Ottoman, western Medieval, experimental and contemporary music. Classically trained with piano and classical percussion since age of 8, it … read more »

Son of the Velvet Rat is the alter ego of songwriter Georg Altziebler and his wife Heike Binder, who a decade ago left their hometown of Graz, Austria and the cloistered safety of the Continent for the endless highway of America. They … read more »

Resonator guitars from the early 20th century, nostalgic synthesizer sounds à la Agar Agar, and poetic, dark lyrics that, in their musical intensity, are reminiscent of Mark Lanegan, Chelsea Wolfe, or Tom Waits. Welcome to a comfortably eerie trip through the emotional … read more »

ZINN exists since winter 2018. With their self-titled debut album they appeared for the first time beyond the Viennese “Gürtel Bars” and presented their chanson punk. Bold, fearless, melancholic, urgent and yearning, they address the world. ZINN are always in dialectical discourse. In … read more »