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Genre(s): Folk, GlobalFrom: Lower Austria, Vienna, Austria
Management: info@divertedmusic.at
Booking: info@divertedmusic.at
roman@muenchenmusik.de
ian@frusion.co.uk
Contact: office@feder-spiel.at
Website: www.feder-spiel.at/
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BIOGRAPHY
Federspiel is a band on a mission to liberate Austrian folk music from its dusty image and give it a modern edge and a fresh start which appeals to all ages.
In 2004 seven young musicians from Vienna and the Lower Austrian area got together to revitalise and bring to a new audience local folk music incorporating their own unique musical interpretation. Tearing down borders people think exist in using folk music, they developed and began to write their own compositions which now form a large part of their repertoire. Here their in depth study of original folk music scores proved to be really useful in creating a contemporary new sound using this source material, but we’ll come back to that later. These guys knew exactly what they were doing when they discovered and created their own interpretations for this preserved traditional music, since their own roots are also in classical music studies.
What sets Federspiel apart from the general resurgence of folk music culture, and particularly from other contemporary European folk music you can see in several ways. They don’t just source their music from what is now Austria but also from what was once the Austro Hungarian Empire, a rich and diverse source, which includes polkas, waltzes, marches and Hungarian Csárdás. Every so often, Slavic or Mexican brass rhythms surface in their arrangements and melodies, which underline the fundamental creativity and open mindedness of the septet.
Above all they embody humour and fun mixed with real professionalism, versatility, virtuosity and great music. Following their own path, the future of these seven musicians seems to be very bright and promising.
Line up:
Philip Haas: trp, flgh, voc
Christoph Moschberger: trp, flgh, voc
Thomas Winalek: pos, btrp, voc
Christian Amstätter: pos, voc
Roland Eitzinger: tb, voc
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