maja osojnik band

Genre: World
Secondary Genre: Avant-garde Vienna/ Kranj (slovenia), Not Applicable Austria Contact

Power,fun,sad,honest,playful,dark,melancholic,existential themes:parting,love,death,social critiques,speaking of war,selfishness,coincidence.Music:jazz,avant-garde,free improvisation,chanson,elements of simple folk music,rock music.Abstract electronic,concrete urban sound-scapes...

Artist Information

Biography

Maja Osojnik
singer, recorder player, electronics, composer, performer, occasional visual artist

born in Kranj,1976, Slowenien, lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Maja made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as early music, contemporary, experimental, jazz, free improvisation and heavy music.
She completed with distinction her master studies in recorder and graduated in pedagogic sciences at the University of Music in Vienna, and further studied singing at the Conservatory Vienna Private University in Vienna.

She was awarded with awards and scholarships, among them "Publicity Preis 2007" from SKE (with Low Frequency Orchestra), Gradus ad Parnassum 2003, IYAP – EM 2004 (1. Preis with Ensemble MIKADO), „Voices“ Jazz Fest Wien Award 2005, Bank Austria Artist of the Year 2008, in 2009 she was awarded the Austrian state scholarship for composing. In 2010 she is awarded the mia award – award goes to women, living in Austria, with a background of migration, for their special achievements in different fields, such as art and culture, science, economy, research, humanitarian work, journalism...

During the last years she focuses more and more on her own compositions, songwriting, electronics. She composed music for theater, animation movie, and different ensembles. Some of her works are „Die glückliche Kindheit am Dorf“ (2007), „Songs from Mortagapenija“ (2008), „vor.über.nach“ (2008), „Doorways“ (2008), „yellow“ with frufru (2008), „white“ with frufru (2009), „a part of me is made of glas“ (2009), "little dream machine" (2010) for RSO Orchestra... and of course many songs for her band.

Around her, a similarly thinking and working group of wonderful musicians has gathered. With Philipp Jagschitz (piano), Bernd Satzinger (contrabass), Michael Bruckner (guitar), Clemens Wenger (accordion) and Mathias Koch (percussion), she arranges and composes songs that are based on old Slovenian folk songs and stories. Their contents touch on basic existential themes such as parting and include social critiques, speaking of war, greed and selfishness, on life stories: of chance, fate, happiness, unhappiness, of lucky accidents, of paths that occasionally cross and then even unite; they speak inescapably of death and of love. Here is a dark lake, full of the hidden, lost, or rejected; you fish around in it until you touch some thing; when you bring it to the surface, you hear a new story. While the songs are overshadowed by a heavy melancholia, they still don’t seem resigned, but instead find critical words. Maja sees herself as a narrator. She tells stories and uses all the elements she deems necessary for a good tale or atmosphere. Thus, the band moves capriciously between jazz, avant - garde, free improvisation and chanson, allowing for elements of simple folk music as well as rock music. Abstract electronic and concrete urban sound-scapes, free and musette colored structures can be heard.

Maja Osojnik Band gave Concerts and Interviews in Austria and abroad, among others, Balkan Fever Festival Vienna, Porgy & Bess, Birdland, Donauinselfest Vienna, Falterfest, Jazzwerkstatt Vienna, Jazz over Villach, Klangräume Ö1, Jazznacht Ö1, Jazzfestival Graz, Festival Carniola / Slovenia, Festival Lent Maribor / Slovenia, 48. Jazzfestival Ljubljana / Slovenia, Balkan Fever Festival London /Great Britain, Carinthischer Sommer, Wiener Konzerthaus, Remise Bludenz, Domimberg Graz, Glatt und Verkehrt Krems Austria. In 2010 the band is invited to play in Cultural Forum New York....

www.majaosojnik.com
www.myspace.com/majaosojnik

Instrumentation

maja osojnik - vocals, recorders, electronics
philipp jagschitz - piano
michael bruckner-weinhuber - e-guitar
clemens wenger - accordion
bernd satzinger - double bass
mathias koch - drums

Discography

CD references:
1)Maja Osojnik Band CRNE VODE /BLACK WATERS / SCHWARZE WASSER, CD/BOOK coming out in may 2010, released by Viennese Soulfood Records, Distribution: Hoanzl
2)Maja Osojnik Band „Oblaki so rdeci“ (die Wolken sind rot / the Clouds are red), 2006 released by Jazzwerkstattrecords, Distribution: Lotus

other CDs releases - go to my web
www.majaosojnik.com

my music was played a lot in autrian Ö1 - ORF radio,austrian television 0RF and slovenian RTV, Radio Student,
i have source information, that has been played as well in germany, finland, russia, last.fm
www.myspace.com/majaosojnik

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Press

  • radio student slovenia june 2010 [+ Show ]

    http://www.radiostudent.si/, Radio Student Slovenia, Mario Batelic Maja Osojnik, who was born in Kr...

  • DRUGA GODBA 2010, 25. 5. 2010; Klub Cankarjevega doma, Ljubljana [+ Show ]

    DRUGA GODBA 2010, 25. 5. 2010; Klub Cankarjevega doma, Ljubljana Sklepni vecer letošnjega festivala...

  • „Ich bin obsessed mit Sterben“ [+ Show ]

    „Ich bin obsessed mit Sterben“ Die aus Slowenien stammende Sängerin Maja Osojnik ist eine der aufre...

  • wo sind meine grenzen? [+ Show ]

    Maja Osojnik spricht mit freiStil über ihr nagelneues CD- und Buch-Projekt, über ihre vielen, völlig...

  • Jürgen Frey (Berlin - Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik / Jury), Mai 2010 [+ Show ]

    Jürgen Frey (Berlin - Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik / Jury), Mai 2010 Schon lange konnte ...

  • „In mir knabbert und knistert es“ [+ Show ]

    ANNA STEIDEN / STEPHAN SPERLICH INTERVIEW 3007wien FOTO „In mir knabbert und knistert es“ Die slo...

  • Candidly she clarifies - both verbally and in her music – what she can’t tolerate in her actions and thinking: narrow-mindedness and a refusal to think outside the box [+ Show ]

    Candidly she clarifies - both verbally and in her music – what she can’t tolerate in her actions and...

  • Maja Osojnik is an eccentric with a priceless sense of humor, who undoubtedly comes from a different point of view than traditional conservative folk song preservation. [+ Show ]

    Maja Osojnik is an eccentric with a priceless sense of humor, who undoubtedly comes from a different...

  • Maja Osojnik emerges as an alternative volcano, and, together with her band, presents Slovenian folk songs in a way that surely no one here has heard before. [+ Show ]

    Even coming from Carinthia, no minority problems for once! Maja Osojnik, born 1976 in Kranj, emerges...

  • Maja Osojnik enchants (puts a spell on) the audience with her voice. [+ Show ]

    - Slovenia visits “Remise Bludenz” // Maja Osojnik enchants (puts a spell on) the audience with her ...

  • An album that seems to burst from ideas and is still unpretentious and most entertaining. [+ Show ]

    When it comes to Jazz, I am a total Nackerbatzl (a butt-naked guy with no idea) that can’t distingui...

  • Her voice – a phenomenon. [+ Show ]

    - On one head side a demure girls’ braid, on the other a shaven punk – Maja Osojniks outfit befits h...

  • unbelievable that someone who sings (folk) songs as melancholic as this would still have a cheerful air. [+ Show ]

    “All wreaths are limp, mine alone is green, for I dampen it with my tears” - unbelievable that someo...

  • She always knows how to tell a story with a song [+ Show ]

    - …just like singer Maja Osojnik, who represents the cultural blend of Slovenia with an abundance o...

  • it is almost exclusively Slovenian folk songs that are at the heart of the interpretations on “Die Wolken sind rot” (The Clouds are Red) [+ Show ]

    (…) it is almost exclusively Slovenian folk songs that are at the heart of the interpretations on “D...

  • Even in her voice, Osojnik remains as unaffected as a child [+ Show ]

    Even in her voice, Osojnik remains as unaffected as a child; her interpretations of the folk melodie...

Setlist

Normally we play concerts with 2 sets, first set about 50 - 60 minutes and second set 45 minutes long, the concerts include all our songs, i tell stories about the songs in between each song, an example of two sets:
1 set:
1.Iz zemle gre v trsek - folk song,arrangement:maja osojnik
2.Vsi so prihajali - lyrics: volkslied, music: michael bruckner
3. pociva jezero v tihoti - lyrics: partisan song, music: bernd satzinger
4. smrt ma krive rebra - lyrics: folk song & maja osojnik, music: maja osojnik
5. v ani divja vojna - lyrics & music: maja osojnik
6. solze na oknih - lyrics: Fran Milcinski - Jezek, music: michael bruckner-weinhuber

break
2.set:
1. da ta na sarti – lyrics: folk song, arr.maja osojnik
2. o ajdovski deklici in sivanki – lyrics & music: maja osojnik
3. mamka – lyrics & music: maja osojnik
4. e lon lan ler – lyrics: Fran Milcinski – Jezek, music: michael bruckner
5. franc – lyrics: maja osojnik, music: bernd satzinger
6. roze je na vrtu plela – lyrics: folks song, music: maja osojnik
7. Slavica – lyrics : maja osojnik & christiane beinl, music: bernd satzinger

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