Hotel Palindrone
Vienna, Vienna, Austria | INDIE
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Ladies and gentlemen – this is music, colourful music. … Ländler encounters polka, Breton tunes meet Austro-Galician 6/8-dances, yodeling is backed by laptop-sounds, Macedonian 11/8-melodies consort with alpine traditions. Dance, play, party and – most important – go beyond borders. World music at its best: Stirring, full of joie de vivre and intelligent. The way it should be. A great CD indeed. If Sam were here, I would tell him – no, I would demand: Play it again. (Markus Brandstetter/ www.stadtbekannt.at/2011)
- Markus Brandstetter/ www.stadtbekannt.at/2011
All multi-instrumentalists, they’re equally adept at Swedish and Balkan music … connecting them together with traditional Alpine music and their own compositions. … It’s a great time and the musicians are obviously enjoying themselves: Add that to their great abilities, and you have a record that’s pretty much irresistible. (CN – sing Out!/ USA, 2004) - Sing Out! USA
Que lui demande-t-on à ce bon groupe folk ? Qu’il connaisse plein de répertoire différent pour nous faire danser des choses variées tout en étant original, surprenant, inventif : des bourrées, des scottishes, polskas, laridés, valses ! Eh bien, Hotel Palindrone c’est tout ça : du délire, de l’invention, de la distanciation, du goût et du bon, une musicalité pleine et entière. Une belle et saine folie. A découvrir à tout prix. Ah oui, un détail étonnant : ils sont Autrichiens.
Awarded BRAVOS!!! (Estelle Ramuz – Trad Magazine/ France)
- Estelle Ramuz – Trad Magazine/ France
This album has inspired me with its groundbreaking sound. The guys have fun. They are outstanding musicians and they excel in high-class compositions and arrangements.(Adolf Goriup/www.folkworld.eu/2011) - Adolf Goriup/www.folkworld.eu/2011
„Beautifully crafted, there is a slightly maniac undertone evident of some of these tunes suggesting a musical balancing act that could easily decline in chaos, but such is their completely mastery of instruments and material that the balance Is effortlessly maintained.” - Dave Haslam, R2 Magazin, GB/2011
Discography
Albums:
Jodulator (2011, Hoanzl/Ordis)
Dial 1702 (2007, Extraplatte)
Samo RIba (2003, Extraplatte)
Elegance (1999, Extraplatte)
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Hotel Palindrone
HOTEL PALINDRONE is an Austrian acoustic quartet that “houses” music traditions from Austria, shaken and stirred with many other European roots, with jazz and classical music.
Full of power, inventiveness and real fun HOTEL PALINDRONE surprises their audience and the press around the world since 1995. For example on the BBC radio 3 stage at WOMAD-Festival where their concert was live broadcast on BBC radio 3. Amongst a superb variety of instruments the more traditional ones, like hurdy gurdy, jews harps and bagpipes, flirt with the bass-guitar or the jazzy saxophone.
Their latest album JODULATOR, the name is based on that most iconic of Alpine pastimes, yodelling, got honored by finding its way on the favorite list of the German Record Critics Award 3/2011 and by the album award “bravo!” of the French Trad Magazine.
And we should say … their music is made to listen a n d to dance to: Bourree, Chapelloise, Austrian Ländler, Polka, Waltz, Mazurka …
Success
Concerts - In Austria from prestigious venues like Konzerthaus Vienna to Ost Klub, International: BBC radio 3 stage at WOMAD-Festival / live broadcast on BBC radio 3, Sidmouth and Broadstairs Folk Week, Towersey Festival (GB), TFF Rudolstadt, Musikfestspiele Sanssouci, numerous “Tanzhaus” performances (D), Trad.it!-Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam (NL), Boombal Festival, Gooikorts-Festival (BE), Porta Festival (Latvia), CH, I, Mexico, Borneo and performances in numerous Austrian Cultural Forums.
Awards - German Folkpreis Eisener Eversteiner 2009
Austrian World Music Audience Award 2005
Reviews
„Beautifully crafted, there is a slightly maniac undertone evident of some of these tunes suggesting a musical balancing act that could easily decline in chaos, but such is their completely matery of instruments and material that the balance Is effortlessly maintained.” (CD-Review by Dave Haslam, R2 Magazin, GB/2011)
“Firmly rooted in tradition, … an inspiring and timeless integration of classical, prog rock and jazz arrangements. Each time you listen you find something new. ... Every piece they perform shines through their incredible musicianship. ... Hotel Palindrone. Such a lovely place.” (After seen the band live at WOMAD ... Eilzabeth Kinder, fRoots / GB/2008)
"These guys are the epitome of what many people say they want in their music—innovation, creativity, adventurousness, professionalism, talent." (CD-review by Frank Gutch Jr., http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/p04585.htm, USA/UK, 2008)
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