Viennese style: not at all waltzes

Hedliners of the ninth issue of the program "Music at Free" are musicians from the city of Vienna, and the musicians are very different. The host of the program Artemy Troitsky is confident that it is not at all necessary to devote its thematic part to one name or one musical direction.

Vienna, according to various polls, is considered the most hospitable for visitors to the city - and not even in Europe, but all over the world. Apparently, this is really so. A lot of musicians found refuge in Vienna, generally people of free professions from various countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. I will introduce you to four such artists - musicians who comfortably settled in the capital of Austria not only in household, but also professionally.

Let's start with Fatima Spar. Fatima Spar From Turkey, she has been living in Vienna for many years, she had different groups, the last of them is called JOV . With her, she recorded the album of The Voice Within , "Inner Voice".

Fatima Spar and JOV represent their new album

Orges dot - from Albania. He ended up in Vienna relatively recently, but immediately took up his musical affairs, organizing the Osk-rocus Band, and released an album with it called "Export-Import".

Orges & Ockus-Rockus Band with the composition On the Road AGain

Orges is often called the Albanian volume Waits, and this is similar to the truth, since his songs are usually on street and alcoholic topics and voice, which corresponds, as hoarse as much as possible. Here is the composition of Jeta Në or 4 te Mengjesit , this means "life at 4 a.m.".

About there, from southeastern Europe, and our next guests in the Vienna capital are Natasha Mirkovich and Nenad Vasilich. Natasha from Bosnia, Nenada from Serbia, now live in Vienna, perform music, generally quite close to jazz and swing. Released an album called SoulMotion in Austria. I will introduce you the composition of Na Zadnjem Sjedi Š Tu Moga Auta, "in the back seat of my car" - an essay, by the way, the famous Stuyugoslav Goran Bregovich.

Natasha Mirkovich and Nenad Vasilich in the back seat of her car

The next group is even more exotic, called Donauwellenreiter . Austrians, as well as Mexicans, as well as the Serbs, participate in it. The Austrian part of the group is a vocalist from Southern Tyrol named Maria Graffonono, and Balka-Mexican musicians complement her in the quartet. The style can be qualified as ethno-rock, and seasoned with various cultural influences, from alpine to Latin. The debut album of Donauwellenreiter is called - "floating on the waves of the Danube." One of the compositions from this album is Messei .

"Switches on the waves of the Danube" swim along the waves of the Danube

It would probably be possible to talk about Viennese clubs, about the Viennese record-labels, and so on, but this is already too special, so I think we can do without it calmly. In general, welcome to Vienna, a very nice city, the imperial appearance of which is perfectly contrasts with its silence and calm: monumental architecture, palaces and wide alleys, where you can expect noise and gam in the style of Paris and Moscow - but in fact everything is very, very quiet, cleanly and affably. Probably, this is precisely the secret of the popularity of Vienna among visitors, both tourists and musicians who gathered there for permanent residence.

Playlist of the program "Music at Free" (release 9):

1. Anohni (uk/usa). Crisis, LP Hopelessness

2. DVA (Czech Republic). Nipomo, lp nopomo

3. "Magellanic Cloud" (Russia). "Frozen flower", LP "conditional signal"

4. "Magellanic Cloud" (Russia). "Spots on the water", lp "parallel"

5. Fatima Spar & Jov (Austria/Turkey). The voice with, lp the voice with

6. Orges & Ockus-Rockus Band (Austria/Albania). Jeta Ne oren 4 te Mengjesit, LP Export - Import

7. Nataša Mirkovič & Nenad Vasilič (Austria/Bosnia/Serbia). Na Zadnjem Sjedišti Moga Auta, LP SoulMotion

8. Donauwellenreiter (Austria/Mexico). Messei, LP Donauwellenreiter

9. Bombino (Niger). Timtar, LP Azel

10. Francis Lai (France). Un home et une femme, lp the best of francis lai

11. The Cesarians (UK). This Way, LP Pure White Speed

12. Elin Kason (Norway). Hiras, LP Eamiritni

13. Bersarin Quartet (Germany). Verflossen Ist Das Gold Der Tage, LP III

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  Artemy Troitsky

  Musical critic, author and leading podcast and radio program "Music at" Freedom ".

  Musicatliberty@gmail.com