Amadeus Austrian Music Awards 2012
The nominations for the Amadeus Awards 2012 are now set and Hubert von Goisern has been nominated in three categories of the Austrian music prize! The current album Entwederundoder is nominated as Album of the Year and the hit single Brenna tuats guat, which topped the Austrian charts for five weeks is nominated as Song of the Year. Last but not least, HvG has been nominated as an artist in the Pop/Rock category.
The public chooses the winner in each Amadeus category and weekly online voting is now possible at:
ENTWEDERundODER on vinyl
For all those of you still running a record player: ENTWEDERundODER is also available as a longplayer / vinyl release. The cover contains not just the vinyl record, but also the audio CD with the same songs. So those of you who want both formats need only buy the LP. [Amazon]
Gold and platinum for Entwederundoder
At the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg in December Hubert von Goisern was awarded precious metal in the form of two gold discs and one platinum for his current single and album. The new year 2012 soon brought with it platinum for the single and double platinum for the album.
The album Entwederundoder has been in the charts for twenty-two weeks, six of those at number 2, while the single Brenna tuats guat has spent twenty weeks in the charts, spending five of those weeks at number 1.
Hubert von Goisern: ENTWEDERundODER
The exciting new album Entwederundoder and chart-topping single Brenna tuats guat from Hubert von Goisern
ENTWEDERundODER
Album Release: 02.09.11
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ENTWEDERundODER
Special Edition CD + DVD
Release: 13.01.12 | Amazon
Top of the charts! Hubert von Goisern's new single Brenna tuats guat was at number 1 in the Austrian charts for five weeks! The CD single will be out on 4th November with not just the studio version, but also a previously unreleased live recording of the song. The album Entwederundoder stood at number 2 for three weeks and has now been awarded platinum! In Germany the album also achieved HvG's hitherto highest chart placing at number 13 in this country. On 13th January 2012 the Special Edition of Entwederundoder will be released, with a DVD containing the Tavern Tour film and Brenna tuats guat video.
Meanwhile ...
After seventeen concerts played and celebrated across Germany and Austria, Hubert von Goisern and his band are back in the studio again, putting the finishing touches to the new album. The tour continues in June with open air concerts and festivals, including the two-day festival at Kaltenberg, which will see Hubert reunited with a number of musical friends from the Linz Europe Tour.
HvG writes: "The first leg of the tour came to an end a few days ago. It was a wonderful time. We really enjoyed being on stage together again for the first time in 20 months and playing for the audience the new songs that had developed during the winter months. The tour led us to the German Baltic Sea and to the back of beyond in Austria, out in the middle of nowhere, where the fox and hens say goodnight, as we say in Austria. The 8 shows in the taverns were - as expected - experiences of a very special kind ..." [Read more ...]
Hubert von Goisern back on stage!
The good news: after an eighteen month break from the stage, Hubert von Goisern will be back on tour in spring 2011!
He's busy composing in his Salzburg studio right now, with a new concert programme being developed. A new CD will be released this year too. It is with not just these new songs, but also familiar classics from his repertoire that Hubert von Goisern and his band will be appearing in concert halls across Austria, Germany and Switzerland from April 2011. In Austria a number of small concerts in taverns are also planned.
HvG writes: "With these concerts we want to make a contribution to breathing life into mostly underused concert venues. And I'm curious to see how the audiences will react to our music. It is always exciting to play where you've never been before. That was once the case in cities such as Cologne, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin ... I still look forward to the concerts in these and other centres. But time and time again great curiosity has drawn me to the edges. The search for the middle of nowhere - or at least the end of the road, led me to Timbuctu, Ougadougou, Assiut, Sfantu Gheorghe, Vilkovo..." [Read more ...]
Streamlines: A Logbook
Stromlinien
- Ein Logbuch by Hubert von Goisern
A musical bridge through Europe along the Danube:
the logbook of the tour
This book tells the story of the journey that Hubert von Goisern and his friends undertook on a cargo ship converted to a stage ship. With a floating, musical, singing village, as he called it, he sailed the Danube upstream and downstream through new Europe, from the centre to the very edges, from Linz to Rotterdam and down to the Black Sea.
He tells of encounters with people along the river banks, of musical colleagues from a dozen different countries, of joint concerts, of the longing for freedom and distance and of a vision: unity in diversity.
Music is the common language and the message. And Hubert von Goisern is an artist who carries this out into the world, who looks for understanding and exchange across all boundaries. And so he sets off on journeys, off to uncharted territory and returns time and again as a new person.
Stromlinien - Ein Logbuch by
Hubert von Goisern
published 14th May 2010
Order now: Amazon | Residenz Verlag | ISBN: 9783701731862