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Entertainment Presents Global Kryner from Austria
"Cosmopolitan
Karawanken Beat"
or
"World Hits in Oberkrainer Sound"
Commercially, these six
talented performers have hit upon an "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau"
(a German expression that translates literally as "A Pig that
Lays Eggs, Grows Wool and Gives Milk").
A while back, a
sound was developed in Europe which was a playful swinging folk
music which came to be referred to as the "Original Oberkrainer
Sound". Almost half a century later, the group Global.Kryner
presents world hits and jazz standards in a modernized
Oberkrainer style. The sextet from Austria interprets "Over the
Rainbow" or "Like a Virgin", pieces by Cole Porter as well as
from Tina Turner or the Beatles in clever, tempo-filled
arrangements with accordion, clarinet, trumpet, guitar and
trombone. Vocalist Sabine Stieger presents the songs in a
beautiful soul voice, moving carefree sensuality across the
stage. These musicians play with animated vivacity and their
concerts are met with enthusiastic applause, especially among
the young.
The band is booked all throughout Europe and has travel dates
open for the US market
We are taking bookings now for the US tour.
 MP3
Audio Samples
Global Kryner Video - Y' Asi
See the
live version of Y' Asi Here
And another
video from European TV - Dreaming
Global Kryner Photos
Global Kryner Albums released by
Sony/BMG
Book Global Kryner Here for your Event or Oktoberfest
Global Kryner
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Global Kryner is a six-piece Austrian progressive jazz-folk
band, consisting of clarinet player Christof Spörk, bass
trombonist, tenor and yodeller Sebastian Fuchsberger, guitarist
Edi Koehldorfer, trumpet player Karl Rossmann, accordion player
Anton Sauprügl, and jazz vocalist Sabine Stieger. The youngest
member, Ms Stieger is also a recent addition to the band, which
was formerly fronted by jazz singer Anne-Marie Höller. The group
has won numerous awards in Germany and Austria, and represented
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine. In
2005, Global Kryner won the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the
category "Best national pop/rock group".
Formation, ideology and musical objectives
Global Kryner originally grew out of the Vienna-based musical
cabaret group Die Landstreich, and was founded by clarinettist
and lyricist Dr Christof Spörk, a political scientist,
cabarettist and musician. An expert on Cuba, Spörk saw how folk
music there was popular with and enjoyed by all generations,
particularly the young, and how happy the Cubans were with their
own culture. In Austria and Germany however, there is a large
stigma attached to enjoying Austrian/Germanic folk music, as it
is associated with somewhat taboo notions of nationalism and is
generally enjoyed only by the elderly, the dominant music among
younger generations being American pop and particularly hip-hop.
Dr Spörk had the idea to create a band which would "rework" both
classic and current pop and rock songs of Anglo-American and
African-American origin in an Austrian folk style with a high
level of musicality. Together with co-founder Sebastian
Fuchsberger, an accomplished trombonist, tenor and "voice
artist" from Salzburg, they spent 18 months auditioning for the
remaining band members until finally a 6-piece line-up was
formed. The current band members are all professional musicians
and live performers at the top of their field.
The first ever Global Kryner concert took place on the 4th May
2003 in Scheibbs as part of the Lower Austrian Volksmusik
festival AufhOHRchen. Accordionist Anton Sauprügl joined
Landstreich in Autumn 2003 as a substitute for Krzysztof Dobrek,
and played as part of Global Kryner for the first time in March
2004. Trombonist Sebastian Fuchsberger and original trumpeter
Thomas Gansch both came to Global Kryner from the brass-cabaret
group Mnozil Brass, but when the two groups began to have too
many parallel concerts and appearances, Fuchsberger joined
Global Kryner permanently while Gansch remained with Mnozil
Brass.
The band's avowed raison d'être is firstly to root themselves
firmly in the tradition of the hugely popular Oberkrainer sound
pioneered by Slovenian Slavko Avsenik in the 1950s, but then to
do nothing short of elevate it to the status of a 'serious world
music genre', while simultaneously preserving its familiar
quirky, whimsical facets. They have further ambitiously resolved
to demonstrate that the genre is versatile enough to extend its
scope to any song, from any musical tradition in the world -
hence the 'global' part of the name. To this end, they have
already set about giving their distinctive Alpine treatment to
tracks as improbable as Madonna's "Like a Virgin".
Style and classification
The music of Global Kryner cannot be truly classified as
Schlager or Volksmusik as the arrangements and compositions are
much too sophisticated to comfortably fit into this genre (jazz
harmonies, changing rhythms and tempos) but neither can it be
classified as pop music due to the dominating jazz/soul style,
traditional Oberkrainer instrumentation, improvisation, and lack
of percussion - the beat or "drive" of the songs comes from the
bass trombone, guitar and accordion.
CDs
* Global Kryner, April 2004: Something Stupid / Lady Marmalade /
Honesty / Like a Virgin / Private Dancer / Over the Rainbow /
Sex Bomb / Night & Day / Funky Town / Stardust / That’s How the
Yodel was Born / Hey Jude
* Krynology, May 2005: Something Beautiful / Hot Stuff / I Can’t
Stand the Rain / I’ll Be the One / Rock Me Amadeus / Stop /
Oops, I Did It Again / Y Así / First Day of My Life / Shut Up /
Dreaming / Eye of the Tiger / Toxic / My Foolish Heart /
Krynology
The band's self-titled first album, launched in April 2004 in
Vienna's most important jazz club Porgy & Bess, was a large
critical and commercial success in Germany and Austria,
garnering widespread praise in newspapers and in the music
press. After a successful year touring with the band, singer
Anne-Marie Höller left for pastures new, and the then
22-year-old Sabine Stieger from Linz joined the band in December
2004. The band's second album "Krynology" (now with Stieger as
vocalist) was released in June 2005 and went to number 2 in the
Austrian album charts, also entering the German album charts.
The band continued to tour extensively in 2005.
The band's third album, provisionally titled "Musica Alpina", is
scheduled to come out in Europe in the second half of 2006, and
is set to contain almost entirely original compositions.
Tours and appearances
Global Kryner tour extensively in Europe, mainly in Germany,
Austrian, Slovenia, the Netherlands (e.g.Zomerparkfeest 14
august 2005) and Switzerland. They have appeared regularly on
German and Austrian television and radio, in programmes such as
Musikantenstadl, the ZDF Fernsehgarten, "Willkommen Österreich",
"Winter Starnacht", "Silvesterstadl", "Willkommen bei Carmen
Nebel", "Treffpunkt Kultur", SWR "Ring Frei!", "Merci Jury", "Achims
Hitparade", "Wir in Bayern", "Starnacht am Wörthersee", "DAS!",
"Fröhlicher Weinberg", "NDR Beat Club", "Ottis Schlachthof" and
"Strasse der Lieder". They have also performed in various comedy
galas such as the WDR5 comedy gala "Voll auf die Ohren" with
Dieter Nuhr, and the Prix Pantheon 2006, in which they won the
jury prize in the category "Frühreif und verdorben". They have
also recently toured in Latin America, and tours in North
America are planned.
During the 2006 World Cup, Global Kryner performed live at
several open air fan festivals around Germany.
2005 Eurovision Song Contest
In early 2005, the band were one of five competing acts in
song.null.fünf, Austria's national pre-selection for the
Eurovision Song Contest, which was a curious affair in that each
act was required to put forward two songs. Global Kryner’s
offerings were "Y Así" and "Dreaming". The competition's unusual
format gave rise to the unsettling possibility that, by putting
in a strong performance of both songs, an act could effectively
rob themselves of victory by splitting their own potential vote.
One of Global Kryner's rivals, Austria's 2003 Eurovision
representative Alf Poier, attempted to reap the benefits of the
situation by stating that if his song "Hotel, Hotel" won, he
would refuse to travel to Kyiv, thus giving his supporters a
less-than-subtle steer towards the song he thought had the
better chance. The event duly crystallised into a titanic battle
between "Y Asi" and Poier's favoured entry, the bizarre and
controversial "Good Old Europe is Dying". Poier's song actually
recorded a greater number of raw votes, but the regional points
system used translated those votes into a narrow victory for "Y
Asi", which therefore went forward to represent Austria in Kyiv.
Global Kryner were the first band to perform in the semi-final
of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, opening the show, but did
not receive enough televotes to progress to the final, coming
21st out of 24 countries. Due to this poor result for the band,
who are extremely popular and highly-regarded in Austria amongst
the general public as well as in intellectual circles, the
Austrian national broadcaster ORF announced its withdrawal from
the Eurovision Song Contest, releasing a statement describing it
as "an absurd competition in which Austrian musical tradition
means nothing". Austria has confirmed that, in spite of poor
results, they will return to the contest in 2007.
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