Attwenger (formed 1990) is a musical duo from Linz, Austria. The group is made up of drummer Markus Binder and button accordion player Hans-Peter Falkner; both members also sing. Map of Austria, locating Linz Linz is a city and Statutarstadt in northeast Austria, on the Danube river. ... Button Accordion is type of accordion which evolves from the older and more basic melodeon. ...
Attwenger's music is an unusual combination of Upper Austrian folk music and hip-hop, with lyrics sung (and rapped) in Upper Austrian dialect. Falkner often plays his accordion through effects pedals to give his instrument a distorted timbre similar to that of an electric guitar. Binder sometimes uses drum machines. Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ... In Austria, there is no unitary Austrian Germanic dialects are spoken. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ...
The duo has toured Europe, Zimbabwe (1993), Siberia, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Malaysia (1995). In 2003 they won an Amadeus Austrian Music Award, in the category "FM4 Alternative Act des Jahres." Of the group, the noted BBC DJ John Peel (1939-2004) said, "I have no idea what it's all about, but I like the general noise a great deal." Attwenger worked together with Fred Frith and the Boban Markovic Orkestar. Siberian Federal District (dark red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) Siberia (Russian: , Sibir’; Tatar: Seber) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of Northern Asia. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fred Frith (born February 17, 1949) is an English musician and composer. ...
For Attwenger and the Goiserer let the traditional, colloquial and remembrance-worthy exist in their music just the same as the modern, the contemporary, the hip.
In the force of expression from Attwenger is the certainty that, whoever wants good things for the country may not indulge in boring eternal traditions, but rather must be in movement with the knowledge around these traditions.
And Attwenger formulate their hope that not everything is futile on their current album Dog, because "die leid san leida ned gaunz dum" ("the people are unfortunately not completely stupid").
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