| Hubert von Goisern - TRAD II |
| 1. kohler |
TRAD II |
| 2. de gamserln |
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| 3. da insrige |
| 4. in's birig |
| 5. wiederum dahin |
| 6. meraner |
| 7. 's büscherl |
| 8. abend spat |
| 9. halt oder... |
| 10. hedidi |
| 11. eiszapfen |
| 12. krippensteiner |
| 13. schützenmarsch |
| 14. schönberger |
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Released
on Monday 13th October 2003, Hubert von Goisern's album, Trad
II (from the English term, "traditional"), is his
second collection of traditional Austrian folk songs. The CD was recorded
and mixed between January and March 2003 in the empty mountain hotel
Krippenstein on the Dachstein
plateau, at 2100m. A tour to
present songs from Trad I and II will
follow in spring 2004.
Why on Krippenstein?
Because it is there
Because there is a hotel on this mountain
Because it was a challenge to play music and produce in this enraptured, out
of touch with the real world, secluded and unbelievably impressive nature.
Because such a place calms the senses. The eye, the ear: everything becomes more
sensitive. |
Hubert von Goisern: Trad 2
A studio above the winter mountains |
Alpenpost 21st February 2003
Hubert von Goisern used the temporarily
closed rooms of the old Berghotel Krippenstein above 2000m, to record
a continuation of his successful CD Trad
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| Photo: © Dachstein Tourismus AG |
Unusual music demands special places. Hubert
von Goisern fulfilled a special wish when he decided to produce his new
CD in the middle of the Salzkammergut mountain world. The Berghotel Krippenstein
on the heights of the Dachstein, which is only washed round by the winter
ski traffic during the day seemed an ideal place for this. During a few
weeks in January and February, he invited his musicians to the snow-covered
heights. During the day they use the opportunity to take the necessary
inspiration wafting in the deep snow of the high alpine open country.
After 17.00, when the Krippenstein train stops its traffic, the quiet
(because temporarily closed) Berghotel Krippenstein becomes a sound studio,
and in night-long sessions, the new album arises.
Hubert von Goisern is pleased to be producing
this music just here, where it belongs and where it has its origins.
Because with the project Trad (after "traditionell" or
the English genre description "traditional" - songs from the
people, tunes without composer and author) it is about the music of his
homeland, close friends since the days of his Salzkammergut childhood.
That he is working on newly interpreting the old tunes today after a
great career and brilliant success probably has its reasons. For a rediscovery
and new discovery, the viewpoint needs distance: in order to emboss what
is handed down with something of your own, you must stand a little "above" -
above all conventions, out of touch with the flats. Seen this way, the
Krippenstein seems an ideal standpoint.
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(L-R) Christian "Balou" Farner, Monika
Drasch, Hubert von Goisern, Max Lässer, Burgi Höller, Bernd
Bechtloff, Marlene Schuen, Arnulf Lindner, Wolfgang Spannberger
Photo: © Dachstein Tourismus AG |
Thanks Gerhard
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