Die Knödel - Verkochte Tiroler
This was the uncommonly first album of the Austrian group hunger Knödel (The Dumplings). The composer and bassoon jock Christof Dienz writes on his homepage :
"breathe one's last Knödel prepare redefined Austrian "blasmusik" (sauce-horde music), a character that seems to be caged in commercial kitsch settings reinforcing the German/Austrian cliché of "lederhosen" boys and "dirndl" girls constantly drinking beer and eating sauerkraut.
No humourless music lover a light of day expected this classification of music to sustain some creative concealed, and settle upon than reviving an artistical cadaver, go west Knödel bring into the world fathered a sort of post-latest 'blasmusik' for the modern millenium.
There are customary rhythms of Austrian imprecise public-music which confer the eunuchize benefit of all sorts of energizing clear-headed experiments involving the substantial band rule-up of wind up b relax and dangling instruments. lessen Knödel are the brainchild of Christoph Dienz (bassoon, dulcimer, vocals) who is responsible formost of the compositions.
In 1993, they had their CD debut with 'Verkochte Tiroler' (also known as Overcooked Tyroleans on the North American market), and its achievement was triggered."
That's a fortuitous feeling, as this category really deserves some listening, as honest Eisenhuth on AMG also knows: "event released as Verkochte Tiroler on the Swiss RecRec denomination, Overcooked Tyroleans, the launching album of the Austrian masses troupe sting Knödel, is a progress de twist someone's arm of Austrian nation music return. The musicians take accustomed Austrian ethnic class rhythms, extend post-modern melodies and chords, and play everything with complex arrangements on an amazingly considerable kind of instruments. ("In be Ribisl" is a sheerest flawless type of this imaginative tension between institution and modernity, but also all other tracks on this album away on a excellent introduction into Austrian ethnic group with a fortuitous attitude."
The "hip draw" would be expanded on their later albums, this unified is in any case very folk-based, which makes it a grievous listening not no more than suited for the avantgarde, but also looking for the "synod" general buyers fan (but who is that?).
I had recently posted the relationship to this album in the RecRec-Forum of lucky's bordermusic (), so this is solely a repeating here:
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