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Austropop apparently has season in every generation. Rainhard Fendrich represents one of the longest -serving representatives of the shameful art. Fendrich was born in Vienna in February 1955. He has published eighteen studio albums since the 1980s and sold a total of over one million recordings. In Germany too, his pieces “Long live the sport” and “Macho, Macho” hits.
This year he not only celebrated his 70th birthday, but also starts his 45th anniversary. His new album was also published on January 31. Me invited the legendary songwriter to the acoustic blind date.
Georg Danzer – “Vorstadtcasanova”
This is a Danzer number. Wait, I’ll have it right away. This is “suburban casanova”! I have to know that too, because at least I have already covered the song. The Georg Danzer even allowed me to change the text at the time.
Actually? What have you changed about it?
I just defused the text a bit. (laughs) Of course this is a great song!
Bipolar Femin – “You talk so loudly”
I don’t think I know that.
This is bipolar feminine, so not an Austropop, but a band from Ebensee on Lake Traunsee emigrated to Vienna.
Bipolar feminine? That tells me something. Ah, now I can think of it again! Bipolar Feminin played last year at the opening of the Viennese festival weeks at Rathausplatz. I saw the performance. The band has an aggressive, young singer. I immediately noticed it. I was impressed by how she shouted out her anger. That was really strong.
Wolfgang Ambros – “The flower from the community building”
(Call after only two seconds) “The flower from the community building!” The Joesi Prokopetz wrote the song for Wolfgang Ambros! It’s just a great number. A real evergreen of the Austropop. This is so timeless. As far as I know, it is a production of Christian Kolonovits. He was also responsible for “Da Hofa” from Ambros. That was in the early 1970s. At that time there was no synthesizer in Vienna. So he just has a normal piano over one
Let the leslie speaker run. That is why it sounds so great with the “Hofa”.
Lucas Fendrich – “Fire about Vienna”
(listen for about 20 seconds before the spark skipped of knowledge 🙂 My goodness! That’s my son, the Lucas! I should have recognized that immediately. (laughs) Lucas attended the American school and is native speaker. He used to sang in English. When he told me that he now wanted to sing in German, I thought at first: “Well, I don’t know if it will be …” Then I was totally surprised how good it is. Lucas reminds me a bit of the young Falco.
Did you have your fingers in the game when the song was created?
Not at all! Lucas makes his own thing. Sometimes we play our songs to each other – that’s all. I think the piece is very good, I like it – even if it is not necessarily my music. Lucas really has a great voice. He is talented and hardworking. Now he only needs a portion of luck.
First general uncertainty – “Fata Morgana”
Oh right! This is EAV – “like a Fata Morgana”. Isn’t that still great? The EAV songwriter Thomas Spitzer is such a gifted copywriter and a flash-like guy. Nobody could set comics as much as he was. This is Fix & Foxi to listen. Often a lot of profound jumping in the point. Incidentally, he is also talented as a painter. He visited me many years ago. Within a very short time he made a pointillistic picture of my oil tree.
The Nino from Vienna – “Taxi Driver”
Is that the Voodoo Jürgens?
Oje. No!
Wait, then it is the other. What is it called? Ah yes, the Nino from Vienna. I think that’s great anyway. The song
I like it too. The way he sings – the morbid that resonates here – that’s really good.
Nino keeps performing with other artists: inside. Have you ever sung a duet with him?
No, but in principle I’m not the duet singer.
Marianne Mendt – “Like a Glock’n”
Marianne Mendt! That is of course fantastic. Marianne is a very love and a great artist. I would have liked to have had one like her as a mother! (laughs) The song is really old – I think from 1970 – and still timeless. Marianne can sing everything, especially jazz. It has absolute hearing. The woman never sung wrong. I don’t know a single wrong tone from Marianne Mendt.
Koenigleopold – “Kohlhauser”
That sounds like a pinball machine. Are they Styrians?
Yes, this is the duo Koenigleopold. The song is from 2012. Here, in the broadest Eastern Styrian dialect, a butcher in the province is sung or spoken.
(laughs) I like that, I think it’s really good! I learned the following Styrian dialect set from Graz Duo Pizzera & Jaus: “Cern oil from the Schöll-Tankstöll.”
Voodoo Jürgens – “Hide Roughly Ma Dead”
I don’t know that. Who sings that?
This is now Voodoo Jürgens.
Oh, that’s the voodoo! Yes Yes Yes! If I had realized that a man sings there, I would have said Voodoo Jürgens anyway. That’s great! Like the Nino, he sings evil and morbid Vienna, which I know from my childhood and youth. At that time, the ruins of the bombed houses stood around in the third district of Vienna. My grandfather recorded me and my friends a handle handicraft at the time and said: If you find something like that, it doesn’t attack! As children, we also got into the flact tower. Voodoo’s music reminds me of this time.
Voodoo is a bit too young for such memories.
I think the Voodoo and the Nino from Vienna have heard a lot of Helmut Qualtinger.