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Hotel Palindrone
Samo Riba (Extraplatte)
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This Austrian band experiments broadly with all manner of European folk music, from Scandinavia to Brittany to the Balkans, but ultimately creates their own unique sound on guitars, bagpipes, cornemuse and hurdy-durdy and more. This live recording from a 2003 performance is ample proof that Austria is finally joining the the "newly composed folk" movement of Europe with style.

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Samo Riba
L'Orient est Grand
Fünferwalzer

More recordings by Hotel Palindrone

"Among the highlights of this live recording are the title track, "Samo Riba," with its hard-hitting, 'popgo' inspiring bagpipes; "L'Orient est Grand" with its Balkan overtones, undertones and tunes; "Branles" with arpeggios in the introduction that are very cinematic and a wild sax-like solo that reinvigorates the Renaissance tune; and "Fünferwalzer" which sounds like a Scottish band playing fanfare music at a slightly seedy amusement park. About half the tunes on this record are the band's compositions... This unexpected surprise from Austria is a welcome inclusion in the ranks of world music. - Nondas Kitsos, RootsWorld

the band says:
Since more than a decade the musicians of Hotel Palindrone have been a driving force in the Austrian folk/roots music scene and they now present their second CD - „Samo Riba"

Short Band History :

• 1995 - Hotel Palindrone founded (3 members had been playing as „Klapotetz" since '92). Starting point: drone music traditions, mainly western European - plus the idea of combining subtle, intelligent arrangements with musical intensity. Influences of groups like Blowzabella and the concept of New Acoustic Music.
• stage appearances in the following years:
  invitations by cultural organizations and to festivals in Austria; first gigs abroad - well, not further than Northern Italy, but still... Exchange of ideas and concepts at festivals like St.Chartier (F) and in the strongly evolving Vienna session scene. Influences of jazz, minimal music and a pinch of klezmer.
• 1999 - the band's first CD „Elegance".
• Subsequently, Hotel Palindrone gets involved with more stiles und regions:
  Interest focuses on Scandinavia, the Balkans, in particular on old Alpine folk music from manuscripts of 18th and early 19th century. The band members' own compositions gain importance as well as playing for dancers!
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