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Austria

the lightsleeper

indie electro pop from austria electronic beats collide with chamber music as well as fat
basslines and electronic effects meet soulful, occasionally
megalomaniacal piano playing or indie guitars; the whole thing
rounded off by a catchy singing voice transporting less catchy
lyrics.
the lightsleeper takes the best of iamx, get well soon, beirut as
well as coldplay and the worst of radiohead and muse and distills
it to a intoxicating and mind expanding mixture.

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Hans Koller

Hans Koller, one of Europe's most beloved jazz performers and an acclaimed abstract painter, died of pneumonia on Monday, December 21, 2003 in his hometown of Vienna. He was 82 years old. A saxophone prodigy, Koller immediately impressed the faculty of the Vienna Music Academy upon his arrival at the age of 14. Within a few years he was playing professionally in jazz and dance bands. In 1941 Koller was drafted into the Nazi army; he spent most of the war as an American POW, at which time he organized a detention camp band.

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Strauss

Strauss (Tatsuki Hashimoto) is a electronic indie musician from Japan. or may refer to any of at least five classical composers: 1. Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899), Austrian composer, the son of Johann Strauss I (who was actually against his son's career as a musician) and also known as "the Waltz King". He revolutionized the waltz, elevating it from a lowly peasant dance to entertainment fit for the imperial Habsburg court.

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Peter Ablinger

Peter Ablinger is an Austrian composer. Ablinger was born in Schwanenstadt, Austria in 1959. He began studying graphic arts and was enthused by free jazz, but completed his studies in composition with G

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Mnozil Brass

Mnozil Brass is an Austrian brass ensemble septet, founded 1992.
All ( founding ) members have been graduates of the renowned Vienna College of Music, who met while playing at the Mnozil pub in Vienna's 1st inner city district. Music is presented in a typical Austrian humor style, which can be ( approximately ) characterized as jet black and here and there absurd. Elements of slapstick existent next to virtuosic brass playing. Notably Austrian and German Schlager songs of the 20. century are often caricatured, former member Sebastian Fuchsberger was a great talent in imitating e.

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