HOTEL PALINDRONE

Yes, it’s music to dance to – you’d be hard-pressed to stay still, in fact. - globalvillageidiots/USA

“… one of Austria’ s most innovative folk groups. … Musicians who developed their own outstanding style: Pan-European Folk Music.” - breizh/ Germany

« Au grand bal morvandiau du samedi soir … ca va de 7 a 77 ans. … Sur la vaste scène les musiciens se succèdent et enchaînent sans interruption. … Et vas-y que j´ te tourne dans une ambiance surchauffée avec les très bons Autrichiens Hotel Palindrone … .» - Gazette du Morvan/ France

“Hotel Palindrone put life into the contest by presenting their European folk crossover. Original instruments from all over the continent were played with joy and wit: A completely new sound blowing away all the dust which has covered traditional music for years. (2005-Appearance at the final of the Austrian World Music Award 2005) - der wiener salon/Austria

The World Music band Hotel Palindrone reliably prove with every album how irrelevant any kind of frontier is, and how much fun you can have if you go beyond limits. Their new CD “Dial 1702” (Extraplatte) combines again Alpine, Scandinavian, and trad Balkan music – and anything else that comes into their minds with great ease that makes you dance! Most amazing of all: you never feel these musical roots have been forced together, you never “see” the join! … simply music! (Tartarotti 2008) - Kurier / Austria

"The band that brought the music to Borneo this year was Austrian Hotel Palindrone, and yes, they had bagpipes, plus a good sprinkle of yodeling no less. It apparently took the organizers four years to find a band with the hurdy-gurdy, and it proved to be well worth the wait." (Rainforest World Music Festival - 2006) - www.glidemagazine.com / USA

"These guys are the epitome of what many people say they want in their music—innovation, creativity, adventurousness, professionalism, talent."

- Frank Gutch Jr., http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p04585.htm, USA/UK, 2008

"Every piece they perform shines through their incredible musicianship. All four members of the band play about 300 instruments each - well, at least three. Albin Paulus plays bagpipes, clarinet, bambarde, shawm, willow flute, fujara and jew's harp. And finding that one jew's harp is never enough, plays thress at the same time. He also yodels - beautifully. ........ Hotel Palindrone. Such a lovely place."
- Elizabeth Kinder, fRroots, March 2009

" There are bands that slot readily into pigeonholes, and that's fine.
But there are others who gleefully refuse to be categorized, like the
wonderfully named Hotel Palindrome. They're from Austria, a country with
a small but perfectly formed folk tradition, even if it's not exactly
well-known, and they explore that in several different ways, as well as
contributing their own material and a piece by Mozart who, after all,
was Austrian. All four members are multi-instrumentalists with a total
of 20 instruments between them, a perverse sense of humor and some quite
remarkable chops that they exercise almost casually, whether it's on
"Landler 1702," the old written piece of Austrian folk music, or the
psychedelic bagpipe swirl of their own "Travel Flow." It's an album of
surprises that at times harks towards Breton folk, as on the slightly
manic "Landler 8 Temps," and others just sit outside description, to be
enjoyed and devoured. While this album does their prodigious talents
justice, it's a certainty they'd also be absolute killers live, with
energy and drive to spare in among the intriguing amounts of subtlety.--CN "
- Chris Nickson, SING OUT!