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The long-awaited second album of the Viennese extraordinary artist Gustav aka Eva Jantschitsch is finished! For many people Gustav's critically acclaimed debut "Rettet die Wale" (save the whales) has rescued the whole protest song genre. Now, media artist and laptop-songwriter Gustav has all of a sudden become a new icon of the feminist music scene, and (concerning the movement of alter-globalization), the conscience of her generation.In 2005 Gustav won the prize of the Austrian Music Industry called the Amadeus Award. At the peak of her success she consequently avoided further public appearances as a solo artist and concentrated on remittance work and a bunch of other quite different side projects, including recently, the queer burlesque theatre piece Orlanding The Dominant. The cross-gender alias Gustav represents a political thinking and basically media critical artist. The music sounds extremely ambivalent: catchy pop songs enter geeky la la laptop land and get infiltrated with some subversive aesthetic & political strategies: reinterpretation, exaggeration, ambiguity. All double layered by Gustav’s unique voice. Gustav thinks that her new album "Verlass die Stadt" has gotten darker - politically and emotionally - than her debut. But that's not easily recognisable upon your first listen. What makes the earnest of her music so digestible is an easiness which comes together with a great sense of humour. Gustav's imagination combined with her pure nonchalance is simply amazing and astonishing. Her songs are like musical roller coaster rides through all kinds of possible and impossible genres: experimental laptop sound, but also traditional Austrian brass music, "Schlager" as well as Sicilian mandolins. Gustav plays with all the clichés and extravagance of each different style and sometimes causes confusion. Cause there's an enormous gap between the cozy appeal of her music and the earnest and highly political topics of the songs. Cause: the situation is definitely serious and there's really NO reason to tell anybody: all clear. Cause it isn’t. Not at all. Behind Gustav Eva Jantschitsch lives and works in Vienna as an artist. She composes music for theater, movies and iPods. Gustav produces songs on the laptop, plays all kinds of instruments and "sings with the sort of inimitable power you cannot muster up any resistance to". Based in Vienna, Gustav's tunes are in various languages, sometimes English, sometimes French, sometimes German - "but the appeal ist completely universelle". Gustav performs solo shows - but sometimes also together with Oliver Stotz (Fender) and Elise Mory (Bösendorfer). Gustav will present her new album live for the first time ever at Donaufestivals in Krems. Some of the songs together with the traditional brass band Dürnstein! An extensive Gustav German tour follows up in May. Tracklisting 01 Abgesang 02 Neulich Im Kanal 03 Total Quality Woman 04 Soldat_in Oder Veteran 05 Alles Renkt Sich Wieder Ein 06 Verlass Die Stadt 07 At The Rivers' Edge 08 IFALL 09 Happy Birthday Official Stream http://www.diskob.com/chicksonspeed-records/verlassdiestadt/stream.html |
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