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  1. Möterhead @[email protected] ·

    Wenn ein US-Amerikaner zu mir sagt, er wisse, was "weit weg" heißt, nehme ich natürlich sofort an, er hat das von Hubert von Goisern.

    Hubert von Goisern - "Weit, weit weg"

    youtu.be/BSPVdFggVy4

    #AustrianMusic

    #austrianmusic
  2. Möterhead @[email protected] ·

    Wenn ein US-Amerikaner zu mir sagt, er wisse, was "weit weg" heißt, nehme ich natürlich sofort an, er hat das von Hubert von Goisern.

    Hubert von Goisern - "Weit, weit weg"

    youtu.be/BSPVdFggVy4

    #AustrianMusic

    #austrianmusic
  3. Möterhead @[email protected] ·

    Wenn ein US-Amerikaner zu mir sagt, er wisse, was "weit weg" heißt, nehme ich natürlich sofort an, er hat das von Hubert von Goisern.

    Hubert von Goisern - "Weit, weit weg"

    youtu.be/BSPVdFggVy4

    #AustrianMusic

    #austrianmusic
  4. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. This solid indie/noise rock quartet is essentially the side (or, parallel) project of frontman Franz Adrian Wenzl, aka Austrofred, aka "Austria's leading Freddie Mercury interpreter". Though this s/t album - Kreisky's first of soon-to-be seven - sounds nothing like Queen, after listening to it you're likely gonna want to catch up on what's going on in the Austrian music scene.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1675989267

    #Kreisky #Austrofred #Austria #AustrianMusic #NoiseRock #rock #IndieRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #1001otheralbums #music #selftitled #indierock #rock #noiserock
  5. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. This solid indie/noise rock quartet is essentially the side (or, parallel) project of frontman Franz Adrian Wenzl, aka Austrofred, aka "Austria's leading Freddie Mercury interpreter". Though this s/t album - Kreisky's first of soon-to-be seven - sounds nothing like Queen, after listening to it you're likely gonna want to catch up on what's going on in the Austrian music scene.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1675989267

    #Kreisky #Austrofred #Austria #AustrianMusic #NoiseRock #rock #IndieRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #kreisky #austrofred #austria #austrianmusic #noiserock #rock
  6. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next spotlight on a Fedi-recommended self-titled album is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. This solid indie/noise rock quartet is essentially the side (or, parallel) project of frontman Franz Adrian Wenzl, aka Austrofred, aka "Austria's leading Freddie Mercury interpreter". Though this s/t album - Kreisky's first of soon-to-be seven - sounds nothing like Queen, after listening to it you're likely gonna want to catch up on what's going on in the Austrian music scene.

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight on the Fediverse at @1001otheralbums.com or on the blog: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/08/24

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/i/1675989267

    #Kreisky #Austrofred #Austria #AustrianMusic #NoiseRock #rock #IndieRock #selftitled #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #music #selftitled #indierock #rock #noiserock #austrianmusic
  7. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Formed by Franz Adrian Wenzl and Martin Max Offenhuber in 2005, Kreisky is a rock quartet from Vienna, named after the longest-serving Chancellor of Austria. Wenzl and Offenhuber were previously the electronic duo Gelée Royale. Also, since 2002 and to the present day, Wenzl performs in various media (music/radio/TV/film/books) under the persona Austrofred aka “Austria’s leading Freddie Mercury interpreter”, with his music being Austropop lyrics over the instrumentals of Queen tracks. Yep.[1]
      The original Kreisky lineup was Wenzl (vocals, keyboard) and Offenhuber (guitar) plus Gregor Tischberger (bass) and Klaus Mitter (drums). This is their debut release.
    • Tasting notes: Indie rock, noise rock, not Queen
    • Standout track: I dig the mini-set of tracks 3 to 6 (“Verschollen in Europa”, “Vandalen”, “Energie”, “Nichtschwimmer”), and also the closer track (“Mit der Musik kamen die Spinner”).
    • Where are they now?: This album made a splash in the Austrian indie scene, as did Kreisky’s following releases. Around the same time as this s/t, Offenhuber, Mitter, and Tischberger were also in the Austrian noise band MORD, who would tour with the legendary Damo Suzuki in 2009 and together put out the live improv EP DAMO MORD, featuring Damo on vocals. Tischberger left Kreisky in 2017, and Helmuth Brossmann is now on bass. The band has six studio albums (plus a live album) thus far, with a new one, Adieu Unsterblichkeit, coming out in October.
    • Websites: Band website, Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. If you have any questions on Austrofred (because you know you do), please contact our resident Austrofred specialist, @derthomas, lol. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #Austrofred #Kreisky #music #musicDiscovery #noiseRock #rock #selftitled

    #austria #austrianmusic #austrofred #kreisky #music #musicdiscovery
  8. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Formed by Franz Adrian Wenzl and Martin Max Offenhuber in 2005, Kreisky is a rock quartet from Vienna, named after the longest-serving Chancellor of Austria. Wenzl and Offenhuber were previously the electronic duo Gelée Royale. Also, since 2002 and to the present day, Wenzl performs in various media (music/radio/TV/film/books) under the persona Austrofred aka “Austria’s leading Freddie Mercury interpreter”, with his music being Austropop lyrics over the instrumentals of Queen tracks. Yep.[1]
      The original Kreisky lineup was Wenzl (vocals, keyboard) and Offenhuber (guitar) plus Gregor Tischberger (bass) and Klaus Mitter (drums). This is their debut release.
    • Tasting notes: Indie rock, noise rock, not Queen
    • Standout track: I dig the mini-set of tracks 3 to 6 (“Verschollen in Europa”, “Vandalen”, “Energie”, “Nichtschwimmer”), and also the closer track (“Mit der Musik kamen die Spinner”).
    • Where are they now?: This album made a splash in the Austrian indie scene, as did Kreisky’s following releases. Around the same time as this s/t, Offenhuber, Mitter, and Tischberger were also in the Austrian noise band MORD, who would tour with the legendary Damo Suzuki in 2009 and together put out the live improv EP DAMO MORD, featuring Damo on vocals. Tischberger left Kreisky in 2017, and Helmuth Brossmann is now on bass. The band has six studio albums (plus a live album) thus far, with a new one, Adieu Unsterblichkeit, coming out in October.
    • Websites: Band website, Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. If you have any questions on Austrofred (because you know you do), please contact our resident Austrofred specialist, @derthomas, lol. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #Austrofred #Kreisky #music #musicDiscovery #noiseRock #rock #selftitled

    #austria #austrianmusic #austrofred #kreisky #music #musicdiscovery
  9. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Formed by Franz Adrian Wenzl and Martin Max Offenhuber in 2005, Kreisky is a rock quartet from Vienna, named after the longest-serving Chancellor of Austria. Wenzl and Offenhuber were previously the electronic duo Gelée Royale. Also, since 2002 and to the present day, Wenzl performs in various media (music/radio/TV/film/books) under the persona Austrofred aka “Austria’s leading Freddie Mercury interpreter”, with his music being Austropop lyrics over the instrumentals of Queen tracks. Yep.[1]
      The original Kreisky lineup was Wenzl (vocals, keyboard) and Offenhuber (guitar) plus Gregor Tischberger (bass) and Klaus Mitter (drums). This is their debut release.
    • Tasting notes: Indie rock, noise rock, not Queen
    • Standout track: I dig the mini-set of tracks 3 to 6 (“Verschollen in Europa”, “Vandalen”, “Energie”, “Nichtschwimmer”), and also the closer track (“Mit der Musik kamen die Spinner”).
    • Where are they now?: This album made a splash in the Austrian indie scene, as did Kreisky’s following releases. Around the same time as this s/t, Offenhuber, Mitter, and Tischberger were also in the Austrian noise band MORD, who would tour with the legendary Damo Suzuki in 2009 and together put out the live improv EP DAMO MORD, featuring Damo on vocals. Tischberger left Kreisky in 2017, and Helmuth Brossmann is now on bass. The band has six studio albums (plus a live album) thus far, with a new one, Adieu Unsterblichkeit, coming out in October.
    • Websites: Band website, Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. If you have any questions on Austrofred (because you know you do), please contact our resident Austrofred specialist, @derthomas, lol. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #Austrofred #Kreisky #music #musicDiscovery #noiseRock #rock #selftitled

    #selftitled #rock #noiserock #musicdiscovery #music #kreisky
  10. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Self-Titled Summer | Kreisky (2007, Austria)

    Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 104 on The List, submitted by Almoehi. Here’s a quick rundown:

    • Point of origin(s): Formed by Franz Adrian Wenzl and Martin Max Offenhuber in 2005, Kreisky is a rock quartet from Vienna, named after the longest-serving Chancellor of Austria. Wenzl and Offenhuber were previously the electronic duo Gelée Royale. Also, since 2002 and to the present day, Wenzl performs in various media (music/radio/TV/film/books) under the persona Austrofred aka “Austria’s leading Freddie Mercury interpreter”, with his music being Austropop lyrics over the instrumentals of Queen tracks. Yep.[1]
      The original Kreisky lineup was Wenzl (vocals, keyboard) and Offenhuber (guitar) plus Gregor Tischberger (bass) and Klaus Mitter (drums). This is their debut release.
    • Tasting notes: Indie rock, noise rock, not Queen
    • Standout track: I dig the mini-set of tracks 3 to 6 (“Verschollen in Europa”, “Vandalen”, “Energie”, “Nichtschwimmer”), and also the closer track (“Mit der Musik kamen die Spinner”).
    • Where are they now?: This album made a splash in the Austrian indie scene, as did Kreisky’s following releases. Around the same time as this s/t, Offenhuber, Mitter, and Tischberger were also in the Austrian noise band MORD, who would tour with the legendary Damo Suzuki in 2009 and together put out the live improv EP DAMO MORD, featuring Damo on vocals. Tischberger left Kreisky in 2017, and Helmuth Brossmann is now on bass. The band has six studio albums (plus a live album) thus far, with a new one, Adieu Unsterblichkeit, coming out in October.
    • Websites: Band website, Wikipedia

    Happy listening!

    1. If you have any questions on Austrofred (because you know you do), please contact our resident Austrofred specialist, @derthomas, lol. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #Austrofred #Kreisky #music #musicDiscovery #noiseRock #rock #selftitled

    #austria #austrianmusic #austrofred #kreisky #music #musicdiscovery
  11. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    Our next spotlight is a wonderful guest post written by Urban (aka @Banur) on number 98 on The List, also submitted by Urban. This is the debut solo album from Plut, and, as Urban writes, "is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene."

    FFO: Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, sad music
    (CW: As mentioned in the spotlight, some lyrics deal with suicide and death)

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/22

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's the Bandcamp: paulplut.bandcamp.com/album/li

    Happy listening.

    #PaulPlut #folk #DarkFolk #FolkRock #Austria #AustrianMusic #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #1001otheralbums #music #austrianmusic #austria #folkrock #darkfolk
  12. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    Our next spotlight is a wonderful guest post written by Urban (aka @Banur) on number 98 on The List, also submitted by Urban. This is the debut solo album from Plut, and, as Urban writes, "is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene."

    FFO: Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, sad music
    (CW: As mentioned in the spotlight, some lyrics deal with suicide and death)

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/22

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's the Bandcamp: paulplut.bandcamp.com/album/li

    Happy listening.

    #PaulPlut #folk #DarkFolk #FolkRock #Austria #AustrianMusic #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #paulplut #folk #darkfolk #folkrock #austria #austrianmusic
  13. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    Our next spotlight is a wonderful guest post written by Urban (aka @Banur) on number 98 on The List, also submitted by Urban. This is the debut solo album from Plut, and, as Urban writes, "is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene."

    FFO: Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, sad music
    (CW: As mentioned in the spotlight, some lyrics deal with suicide and death)

    Want to read more? See the full spotlight: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/22

    Want to skip straight to the music? Here's the Bandcamp: paulplut.bandcamp.com/album/li

    Happy listening.

    #PaulPlut #folk #DarkFolk #FolkRock #Austria #AustrianMusic #music #1001OtherAlbums

    #1001otheralbums #music #austrianmusic #austria #folkrock #darkfolk
  14. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·
    CW: album review mentions artist's suicide attempt

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    [This guest post was written by Urban (aka @Banur, previously @Almoehi) about number 98 on The List. The album was also submitted by Urban.]

    Ois wos guat is in da Wöt Konnst in a Tuchant aus Lärchnhoiz legn
    (“Everything good in the world, you can lay down into a coffin made out of larch wood”)

    – “Lärche“

    Talking about Austrian music is a little hard, especially when it comes to dialect, and when you are writing not in your native language. So forgive me about the grammar and the not perfect sentences. Translations are roughly made by myself.


    Paul Plut’s[1] Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (“Songs of Dance and Death”) is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene.

    Lots of Austrian folk music, especially sung in the Viennese dialect, had a dark and morbid touch (like Ludwig Hirsch[2]), but Paul Plut didn’t want to recreate that. It’s not morbid and it’s less humorous than others. It’s dark and depressive, melancholic and sometimes also uplifting. Something made from someone who knew which way he wanted to go.

    Heiliger Vota, valoss mi jetz nit
    (“Holy Father, don’t leave me now”)

    – “Vota”

    Coming from Ramsau am Dachstein, Plut is an autodidact and social media objector who has made music for the theatre since 2009. Later he played in the indie pop band Viech (with a beautiful song called “Stick your competitiveness up your arse”) and blues punk band Marta, bands that are still active and releasing music. Around 2016 he started to make his first solo record, and released one song (plus liner notes) every month for his newsletter,[3] until the album release in 2017. It was very well received in the media and, from my personal perspective, also from lots of people in the alternative scenes. Maybe it’s the DIY attitude that Paul Plut shows with his bands before and here.

    But what does it sound like?

    Griaß du ma meine Leit, die Freind, den Rausch, die Tschick, des Bluat, des Gift
    (“Greet my people, the friends, the ecstasy, the cigarette, the blood, the poison”)

    – “Sunn”

    A little bit of Tom Waits,[4] some Leonard Cohen, a sprinkle of Johnny Cash and a guitar sound, that at times is depressive and deep, at other times it could be from a western movie (like “Wer”). It could sound like pure chaos but it’s beautifully coherent, e.g., “Vota” rooted in a gospel sound with background singers coming right after a guitar and emotion-heavy song like “Lärche”, then “Sunn”, a fragile ballad that seems positive even though it’s not. The production, earthy and with feeling, helps to produce the feeling of coherence, but also melancholy.

    Die Wöt is a Gräberföd, die Wöt is sche
    (“The world is a burial ground, the world is beautiful”)

    – “Grat“

    Lyrically, as mentioned above, it’s a dark album. A personal album about suicide and death, as Plut tried to kill himself twice before.[5] It’s rooted in the place where he comes from and where he wanted to die (in “Toten Gebirge”/”Dead Mountains”), as the cover shows him in front of the place of his suicide attempt, still there but also a part of the stones behind him. Other songs like “Wer” or “Klatsch” are more light-hearted, but still far away from being happy songs.

    Se tonzen im Kroas, da Tote tonzt und wü si drahn
    (“They dancing in circles, the dead dance and want to spin”)

    – “Kreis”

    Personally, this album (and Voodoo Jürgens[6]) was the way back to Austrian music in dialect for me. There were people before who recorded in the Austrian dialect, but at the time of this album it was mostly pop acts doing that and almost no one remotely intense like this album. But the dark and depressive atmosphere, the sound and the feeling that you can use your dialect for more than just to use for songs to drink and fuck, made me fall for that.

    Paul Plut is still active and his sound is still not very easy to categorise. Dark folk could be the right answer here, and I would recommend also taking a listen to his last album Herbarium.

    1. As he doesn’t like social media: paulplut.com ↩︎
    2. Also on The List: 1001otheralbums.com/2024/11/01/ludwig-hirsch-dunkelgraue-lieder-1979-austria/ ↩︎
    3. See: paulplut.com/lieder ↩︎
    4. Described as “Après-Ski Tom Waits“ in: www.derstandard.at/story/2000067877707/paul-plut-sonnenfinsternis-im-toten-gebirge ↩︎
    5. See here: www.argekultur.at/Event/13268/paul-plut-lieder-vom-tanzen-und-sterben ↩︎
    6. Also on The List with Ansa Woar, number 887. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #darkFolk #folk #music #musicDiscovery #PaulPlut

    #austria #austrianmusic #darkfolk #folk #music #musicdiscovery
  15. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·
    CW: album review mentions artist's suicide attempt

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    [This guest post was written by Urban (aka @Banur, previously @Almoehi) about number 98 on The List. The album was also submitted by Urban.]

    Ois wos guat is in da Wöt Konnst in a Tuchant aus Lärchnhoiz legn
    (“Everything good in the world, you can lay down into a coffin made out of larch wood”)

    – “Lärche“

    Talking about Austrian music is a little hard, especially when it comes to dialect, and when you are writing not in your native language. So forgive me about the grammar and the not perfect sentences. Translations are roughly made by myself.


    Paul Plut’s[1] Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (“Songs of Dance and Death”) is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene.

    Lots of Austrian folk music, especially sung in the Viennese dialect, had a dark and morbid touch (like Ludwig Hirsch[2]), but Paul Plut didn’t want to recreate that. It’s not morbid and it’s less humorous than others. It’s dark and depressive, melancholic and sometimes also uplifting. Something made from someone who knew which way he wanted to go.

    Heiliger Vota, valoss mi jetz nit
    (“Holy Father, don’t leave me now”)

    – “Vota”

    Coming from Ramsau am Dachstein, Plut is an autodidact and social media objector who has made music for the theatre since 2009. Later he played in the indie pop band Viech (with a beautiful song called “Stick your competitiveness up your arse”) and blues punk band Marta, bands that are still active and releasing music. Around 2016 he started to make his first solo record, and released one song (plus liner notes) every month for his newsletter,[3] until the album release in 2017. It was very well received in the media and, from my personal perspective, also from lots of people in the alternative scenes. Maybe it’s the DIY attitude that Paul Plut shows with his bands before and here.

    But what does it sound like?

    Griaß du ma meine Leit, die Freind, den Rausch, die Tschick, des Bluat, des Gift
    (“Greet my people, the friends, the ecstasy, the cigarette, the blood, the poison”)

    – “Sunn”

    A little bit of Tom Waits,[4] some Leonard Cohen, a sprinkle of Johnny Cash and a guitar sound, that at times is depressive and deep, at other times it could be from a western movie (like “Wer”). It could sound like pure chaos but it’s beautifully coherent, e.g., “Vota” rooted in a gospel sound with background singers coming right after a guitar and emotion-heavy song like “Lärche”, then “Sunn”, a fragile ballad that seems positive even though it’s not. The production, earthy and with feeling, helps to produce the feeling of coherence, but also melancholy.

    Die Wöt is a Gräberföd, die Wöt is sche
    (“The world is a burial ground, the world is beautiful”)

    – “Grat“

    Lyrically, as mentioned above, it’s a dark album. A personal album about suicide and death, as Plut tried to kill himself twice before.[5] It’s rooted in the place where he comes from and where he wanted to die (in “Toten Gebirge”/”Dead Mountains”), as the cover shows him in front of the place of his suicide attempt, still there but also a part of the stones behind him. Other songs like “Wer” or “Klatsch” are more light-hearted, but still far away from being happy songs.

    Se tonzen im Kroas, da Tote tonzt und wü si drahn
    (“They dancing in circles, the dead dance and want to spin”)

    – “Kreis”

    Personally, this album (and Voodoo Jürgens[6]) was the way back to Austrian music in dialect for me. There were people before who recorded in the Austrian dialect, but at the time of this album it was mostly pop acts doing that and almost no one remotely intense like this album. But the dark and depressive atmosphere, the sound and the feeling that you can use your dialect for more than just to use for songs to drink and fuck, made me fall for that.

    Paul Plut is still active and his sound is still not very easy to categorise. Dark folk could be the right answer here, and I would recommend also taking a listen to his last album Herbarium.

    1. As he doesn’t like social media: paulplut.com ↩︎
    2. Also on The List: 1001otheralbums.com/2024/11/01/ludwig-hirsch-dunkelgraue-lieder-1979-austria/ ↩︎
    3. See: paulplut.com/lieder ↩︎
    4. Described as “Après-Ski Tom Waits“ in: www.derstandard.at/story/2000067877707/paul-plut-sonnenfinsternis-im-toten-gebirge ↩︎
    5. See here: www.argekultur.at/Event/13268/paul-plut-lieder-vom-tanzen-und-sterben ↩︎
    6. Also on The List with Ansa Woar, number 887. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #darkFolk #folk #music #musicDiscovery #PaulPlut

    #austria #austrianmusic #darkfolk #folk #music #musicdiscovery
  16. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·
    CW: album review mentions artist's suicide attempt

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    [This guest post was written by Urban (aka @Banur, previously @Almoehi) about number 98 on The List. The album was also submitted by Urban.]

    Ois wos guat is in da Wöt Konnst in a Tuchant aus Lärchnhoiz legn
    (“Everything good in the world, you can lay down into a coffin made out of larch wood”)

    – “Lärche“

    Talking about Austrian music is a little hard, especially when it comes to dialect, and when you are writing not in your native language. So forgive me about the grammar and the not perfect sentences. Translations are roughly made by myself.


    Paul Plut’s[1] Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (“Songs of Dance and Death”) is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene.

    Lots of Austrian folk music, especially sung in the Viennese dialect, had a dark and morbid touch (like Ludwig Hirsch[2]), but Paul Plut didn’t want to recreate that. It’s not morbid and it’s less humorous than others. It’s dark and depressive, melancholic and sometimes also uplifting. Something made from someone who knew which way he wanted to go.

    Heiliger Vota, valoss mi jetz nit
    (“Holy Father, don’t leave me now”)

    – “Vota”

    Coming from Ramsau am Dachstein, Plut is an autodidact and social media objector who has made music for the theatre since 2009. Later he played in the indie pop band Viech (with a beautiful song called “Stick your competitiveness up your arse”) and blues punk band Marta, bands that are still active and releasing music. Around 2016 he started to make his first solo record, and released one song (plus liner notes) every month for his newsletter,[3] until the album release in 2017. It was very well received in the media and, from my personal perspective, also from lots of people in the alternative scenes. Maybe it’s the DIY attitude that Paul Plut shows with his bands before and here.

    But what does it sound like?

    Griaß du ma meine Leit, die Freind, den Rausch, die Tschick, des Bluat, des Gift
    (“Greet my people, the friends, the ecstasy, the cigarette, the blood, the poison”)

    – “Sunn”

    A little bit of Tom Waits,[4] some Leonard Cohen, a sprinkle of Johnny Cash and a guitar sound, that at times is depressive and deep, at other times it could be from a western movie (like “Wer”). It could sound like pure chaos but it’s beautifully coherent, e.g., “Vota” rooted in a gospel sound with background singers coming right after a guitar and emotion-heavy song like “Lärche”, then “Sunn”, a fragile ballad that seems positive even though it’s not. The production, earthy and with feeling, helps to produce the feeling of coherence, but also melancholy.

    Die Wöt is a Gräberföd, die Wöt is sche
    (“The world is a burial ground, the world is beautiful”)

    – “Grat“

    Lyrically, as mentioned above, it’s a dark album. A personal album about suicide and death, as Plut tried to kill himself twice before.[5] It’s rooted in the place where he comes from and where he wanted to die (in “Toten Gebirge”/”Dead Mountains”), as the cover shows him in front of the place of his suicide attempt, still there but also a part of the stones behind him. Other songs like “Wer” or “Klatsch” are more light-hearted, but still far away from being happy songs.

    Se tonzen im Kroas, da Tote tonzt und wü si drahn
    (“They dancing in circles, the dead dance and want to spin”)

    – “Kreis”

    Personally, this album (and Voodoo Jürgens[6]) was the way back to Austrian music in dialect for me. There were people before who recorded in the Austrian dialect, but at the time of this album it was mostly pop acts doing that and almost no one remotely intense like this album. But the dark and depressive atmosphere, the sound and the feeling that you can use your dialect for more than just to use for songs to drink and fuck, made me fall for that.

    Paul Plut is still active and his sound is still not very easy to categorise. Dark folk could be the right answer here, and I would recommend also taking a listen to his last album Herbarium.

    1. As he doesn’t like social media: paulplut.com ↩︎
    2. Also on The List: 1001otheralbums.com/2024/11/01/ludwig-hirsch-dunkelgraue-lieder-1979-austria/ ↩︎
    3. See: paulplut.com/lieder ↩︎
    4. Described as “Après-Ski Tom Waits“ in: www.derstandard.at/story/2000067877707/paul-plut-sonnenfinsternis-im-toten-gebirge ↩︎
    5. See here: www.argekultur.at/Event/13268/paul-plut-lieder-vom-tanzen-und-sterben ↩︎
    6. Also on The List with Ansa Woar, number 887. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #darkFolk #folk #music #musicDiscovery #PaulPlut

    #paulplut #musicdiscovery #music #folk #darkfolk #austrianmusic
  17. 1001 Other Albums @[email protected] ·
    CW: album review mentions artist's suicide attempt

    Paul Plut – Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (2017, Austria)

    [This guest post was written by Urban (aka @Banur, previously @Almoehi) about number 98 on The List. The album was also submitted by Urban.]

    Ois wos guat is in da Wöt Konnst in a Tuchant aus Lärchnhoiz legn
    (“Everything good in the world, you can lay down into a coffin made out of larch wood”)

    – “Lärche“

    Talking about Austrian music is a little hard, especially when it comes to dialect, and when you are writing not in your native language. So forgive me about the grammar and the not perfect sentences. Translations are roughly made by myself.


    Paul Plut’s[1] Lieder vom Tanzen und Sterben (“Songs of Dance and Death”) is a beautiful dark folksy album that found a niche for him and itself in the diverse Austrian music scene.

    Lots of Austrian folk music, especially sung in the Viennese dialect, had a dark and morbid touch (like Ludwig Hirsch[2]), but Paul Plut didn’t want to recreate that. It’s not morbid and it’s less humorous than others. It’s dark and depressive, melancholic and sometimes also uplifting. Something made from someone who knew which way he wanted to go.

    Heiliger Vota, valoss mi jetz nit
    (“Holy Father, don’t leave me now”)

    – “Vota”

    Coming from Ramsau am Dachstein, Plut is an autodidact and social media objector who has made music for the theatre since 2009. Later he played in the indie pop band Viech (with a beautiful song called “Stick your competitiveness up your arse”) and blues punk band Marta, bands that are still active and releasing music. Around 2016 he started to make his first solo record, and released one song (plus liner notes) every month for his newsletter,[3] until the album release in 2017. It was very well received in the media and, from my personal perspective, also from lots of people in the alternative scenes. Maybe it’s the DIY attitude that Paul Plut shows with his bands before and here.

    But what does it sound like?

    Griaß du ma meine Leit, die Freind, den Rausch, die Tschick, des Bluat, des Gift
    (“Greet my people, the friends, the ecstasy, the cigarette, the blood, the poison”)

    – “Sunn”

    A little bit of Tom Waits,[4] some Leonard Cohen, a sprinkle of Johnny Cash and a guitar sound, that at times is depressive and deep, at other times it could be from a western movie (like “Wer”). It could sound like pure chaos but it’s beautifully coherent, e.g., “Vota” rooted in a gospel sound with background singers coming right after a guitar and emotion-heavy song like “Lärche”, then “Sunn”, a fragile ballad that seems positive even though it’s not. The production, earthy and with feeling, helps to produce the feeling of coherence, but also melancholy.

    Die Wöt is a Gräberföd, die Wöt is sche
    (“The world is a burial ground, the world is beautiful”)

    – “Grat“

    Lyrically, as mentioned above, it’s a dark album. A personal album about suicide and death, as Plut tried to kill himself twice before.[5] It’s rooted in the place where he comes from and where he wanted to die (in “Toten Gebirge”/”Dead Mountains”), as the cover shows him in front of the place of his suicide attempt, still there but also a part of the stones behind him. Other songs like “Wer” or “Klatsch” are more light-hearted, but still far away from being happy songs.

    Se tonzen im Kroas, da Tote tonzt und wü si drahn
    (“They dancing in circles, the dead dance and want to spin”)

    – “Kreis”

    Personally, this album (and Voodoo Jürgens[6]) was the way back to Austrian music in dialect for me. There were people before who recorded in the Austrian dialect, but at the time of this album it was mostly pop acts doing that and almost no one remotely intense like this album. But the dark and depressive atmosphere, the sound and the feeling that you can use your dialect for more than just to use for songs to drink and fuck, made me fall for that.

    Paul Plut is still active and his sound is still not very easy to categorise. Dark folk could be the right answer here, and I would recommend also taking a listen to his last album Herbarium.

    1. As he doesn’t like social media: paulplut.com ↩︎
    2. Also on The List: 1001otheralbums.com/2024/11/01/ludwig-hirsch-dunkelgraue-lieder-1979-austria/ ↩︎
    3. See: paulplut.com/lieder ↩︎
    4. Described as “Après-Ski Tom Waits“ in: www.derstandard.at/story/2000067877707/paul-plut-sonnenfinsternis-im-toten-gebirge ↩︎
    5. See here: www.argekultur.at/Event/13268/paul-plut-lieder-vom-tanzen-und-sterben ↩︎
    6. Also on The List with Ansa Woar, number 887. ↩︎

    #Austria #AustrianMusic #darkFolk #folk #music #musicDiscovery #PaulPlut

    #austria #austrianmusic #darkfolk #folk #music #musicdiscovery
  18. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    Olga Neuwirth -- ....miramondo multiplo... -- Håkan Hardenberger, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert

    youtu.be/0DZPHhz8z28?si=1IX0qa

    Here's a trumpet concerto by Olga Neuwirth, an Austrian contemporary classical composer.

    It's divided into five movements or arias, and is full of references to other pieces of music by Bach, Mahler, Miles Davis...I picked up a couple of those but missed many more, I'm sure. I wonder if a work of art that plays off or refers to another work or works fails in some respects if it cannot also stand on its own for the uniformed listener, viewer, or reader. Think, for example, of Picasso's 1954/55 series of paintings and drawings "Les Femmes d'Alger", which draws on Delacroix's " Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement". I'm sure there have been viewers who have enjoyed looking at the former without being aware of the source that inspired Picasso - and there is nothing wrong with that, even if other more informed viwers have a ricer experience.!

    I've listened to the piece three times and I'm not sure if I like it that much - with the exception of the fourth aria, which is lyrical,magical and otherworldly, without falling into beauty spa music cheesiness. That movement starts at 11:37 and could be a stand alone piece.

    #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #OlgaNeuwirth #WomenComposers
    #AustrianMusic

    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #olganeuwirth #womencomposers #austrianmusic
  19. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    Olga Neuwirth -- ....miramondo multiplo... -- Håkan Hardenberger, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert

    youtu.be/0DZPHhz8z28?si=1IX0qa

    Here's a trumpet concerto by Olga Neuwirth, an Austrian contemporary classical composer.

    It's divided into five movements or arias, and is full of references to other pieces of music by Bach, Mahler, Miles Davis...I picked up a couple of those but missed many more, I'm sure. I wonder if a work of art that plays off or refers to another work or works fails in some respects if it cannot also stand on its own for the uniformed listener, viewer, or reader. Think, for example, of Picasso's 1954/55 series of paintings and drawings "Les Femmes d'Alger", which draws on Delacroix's " Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement". I'm sure there have been viewers who have enjoyed looking at the former without being aware of the source that inspired Picasso - and there is nothing wrong with that, even if other more informed viwers have a ricer experience.!

    I've listened to the piece three times and I'm not sure if I like it that much - with the exception of the fourth aria, which is lyrical,magical and otherworldly, without falling into beauty spa music cheesiness. That movement starts at 11:37 and could be a stand alone piece.

    #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #OlgaNeuwirth #WomenComposers
    #AustrianMusic

    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #olganeuwirth #womencomposers #austrianmusic
  20. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    Olga Neuwirth -- ....miramondo multiplo... -- Håkan Hardenberger, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert

    youtu.be/0DZPHhz8z28?si=1IX0qa

    Here's a trumpet concerto by Olga Neuwirth, an Austrian contemporary classical composer.

    It's divided into five movements or arias, and is full of references to other pieces of music by Bach, Mahler, Miles Davis...I picked up a couple of those but missed many more, I'm sure. I wonder if a work of art that plays off or refers to another work or works fails in some respects if it cannot also stand on its own for the uniformed listener, viewer, or reader. Think, for example, of Picasso's 1954/55 series of paintings and drawings "Les Femmes d'Alger", which draws on Delacroix's " Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement". I'm sure there have been viewers who have enjoyed looking at the former without being aware of the source that inspired Picasso - and there is nothing wrong with that, even if other more informed viwers have a ricer experience.!

    I've listened to the piece three times and I'm not sure if I like it that much - with the exception of the fourth aria, which is lyrical,magical and otherworldly, without falling into beauty spa music cheesiness. That movement starts at 11:37 and could be a stand alone piece.

    #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #OlgaNeuwirth #WomenComposers
    #AustrianMusic

    #austrianmusic #womencomposers #olganeuwirth #contemporarymusic #classicalmusic
  21. Jonathan Emmesedi @[email protected] ·

    Olga Neuwirth -- ....miramondo multiplo... -- Håkan Hardenberger, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert

    youtu.be/0DZPHhz8z28?si=1IX0qa

    Here's a trumpet concerto by Olga Neuwirth, an Austrian contemporary classical composer.

    It's divided into five movements or arias, and is full of references to other pieces of music by Bach, Mahler, Miles Davis...I picked up a couple of those but missed many more, I'm sure. I wonder if a work of art that plays off or refers to another work or works fails in some respects if it cannot also stand on its own for the uniformed listener, viewer, or reader. Think, for example, of Picasso's 1954/55 series of paintings and drawings "Les Femmes d'Alger", which draws on Delacroix's " Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement". I'm sure there have been viewers who have enjoyed looking at the former without being aware of the source that inspired Picasso - and there is nothing wrong with that, even if other more informed viwers have a ricer experience.!

    I've listened to the piece three times and I'm not sure if I like it that much - with the exception of the fourth aria, which is lyrical,magical and otherworldly, without falling into beauty spa music cheesiness. That movement starts at 11:37 and could be a stand alone piece.

    #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #OlgaNeuwirth #WomenComposers
    #AustrianMusic

    #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #olganeuwirth #womencomposers #austrianmusic
  22. Wiener LP Café @[email protected] ·

    Wunderschönes Album zur Wetterlage #austrianmusic #wienrocks #Neuschnee Der Lärm Der Welt wird im Schnee auch ein bisschen leiser. ;)

    #neuschnee #wienrocks #austrianmusic
  23. Wiener LP Café @[email protected] ·

    Der bester Postler in Wien hat einen neuen Single: youtu.be/CUGSx2DCaok #wienrocks #musik #austrianmusic

    #austrianmusic #musik #wienrocks
  24. Wiener LP Café @[email protected] ·

    Heute ist endlich Vinyl-Release zum Album »Ernst«.
    Und wir feiern das gemeinsam mit @thomas_andreas_beck

    Thomas Andreas Beck ist ab 16h bis ca 20h persönlich da und signiert gerne und bringt ein Paar Flascherln vom offiziellen Band Wein mit - dem phantastischen Zweigelt vom Golser Winzer und Musiker Gerald Allacher. Beck’s Bandkollegen schauen auch vorbei – kommt’s und hören wir gemeinsam in dieses bestens rezensierte Album hinein!

    @medienmanufakturwien #ernst #newreleasefriday #fridayreleases #outnow #nowplaying #vinyl #loverecordstores #lpcafewien #vinylcollection #austrianmusic #ernstderlage #meetandgreet
    #wienrocks #musik

    #musik #wienrocks #meetandgreet #ernstderlage #austrianmusic #vinylcollection
  25. Wiener LP Café @[email protected] ·

    Neues #voodoojürgens Album jetzt wie die Nocht noch jung wor. #austrianmusic #lpcafewien #vinyl #tanzen #musik

    #musik #tanzen #vinyl #lpcafewien #austrianmusic #voodoojurgens