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Live double album

2012 was Hubert von Goisern's hitherto most successful concert year. On the Brenna Tuats Tour he and his band criss-crossed the German-speaking countries and played 101 concerts to more than 300,000 thrilled fans.

Now you can relive the magic of the tour with the live double album Im Jahr des Drachen. It holds on it eighteen atmospheric memories in song form and will be released on 21st June 2013.

After great success at the Amadeus Awards in 2012 when he won two awards in the Album of the Year and Pop/Rock categories, Hubert von Goisern has been honoured again for his music this year too. At the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards gala in Vienna on 1st May, an honorary Amadeus Award was awarded to Hubert von Goisern in recognition of his music that continues to cross genres and bring people together. Hubert was unable to attend the ceremony and gave his thanks via video message.

Extreme climate conditions, remoteness and almost non-existent infrastructure make Greenland one of the inhospitable places on Earth. In the film Gegen die Stille: Hubert von Goisern in Grönland, to be shown on Servus TV on 29th March 2013 at 21:15, HvG follows in the footsteps of the culture of Innuits that is threatened by western influences. The musician attempts an approach to a folk culture that is undergoing a radical upheaval. The film's soundtrack was also composed by Hubert von Goisern.

More than eleven years ago Hubert von Goisern fulfilled a long-held wish to record a collection of traditional Austrian folk tunes and songs that had accompanied him since childhood. The result was the successful album TRAD, which was followed two years later by a second volume, TRAD II, recorded in an abandoned hotel on Krippenstein mountain.

The new TRAD Special Edition Box Set contains not just these two special albums, but also the double release Ausland, consisting of a live CD from the Trad Tour that took HvG and his band through the German-speaking region in 2004 and the DVD Warten auf Timbuktu. This documentary follows Hubert on his journey to Mali, where he performed to an international audience among the sand dunes at the Festival au Désert and with ngoni-virtuoso Bassekou Kouyaté and balafon maestro Kele Tigi in the capital city Bamako.

With the Entwederundoder songbook you now have the chance to play Hubert von Goisern's compositions for yourself! The new 32-page book contains the score for all the songs from HvG's hit album, from chart topper Brenna tuats guat to the instrumental piece Über-Unter-Ober-Österreicher, as well as a great poster of the band.

A must for all those who love to sing and play!

14th July 2012 in Spielberg in Styria will be a unique day: Hubert von Goisern will be giving a concert there in a spectacular setting! Where usually the fastest motorsport takes place, the stage will be set for the most powerful programme of his career.

The Red Bull Ring, once known as the most beautiful and fastest racetrack of Formula 1, brings the myth of motorsport to life: from 9am visitors will be able to take part in various driving experiences. Between 4pm and 7pm show acts will delight the crowds on the asphalt and in the sky - until the musical part of the evening begins: HBMC, the holstuonarmusigbigbandclub, will present their happy, relaxed groove. From 8pm Hubert von Goisern will be on stage with his band - live, direct and full of unbridled joy in their music. "It burns" with all the songs from the current album Entwederundoder. And with the best of more than 20 years of alpine, constantly reinvented music, with driving rock rhythms and beautiful ballads. Unparalleled.

All the big names of the Austrian music business gathered at the Vienna Volkstheater for the Amadeus Austrian Music Awards on 1st May. After a long stay in the charts with his album Entwederundoder, Hubert von Goisern was able to take home not just the award in the category Pop/Rock, but the prize for Album of the Year too. Together with his band Hubert also celebrated the evening on stage, playing Suach da an åndern before an enthusiastic crowd. In just a few weeks, the band will be back on the road, continuing the Brenna Tuats Tour through Austria and Germany.

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]

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 was in the charts for fifty-six weeks, six of those at number 2, while the single Brenna tuats guat spent thirty-four weeks in the charts, spending five of those weeks at number 1. The song has also been in the German charts for 41 weeks.

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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BRENNA TUATS GUAT
Single Release: 04.11.11
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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.

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