radio.string.quartet.vienna RADIODREAM

line up

• Asja Valcic (cello)
• Bernie Mallinger (violin)
• Cynthia Liao (viola)
• Igmar Jenner (violin)

• country:
  Austria
• style(s):
  Instrumental Vocal
• label:
  ACT Music&Vision GmbH&Co. KG
• type:
  Band, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male, female
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Bigathing

radio.string.quartet.vienna RADIODREAM

It's difficult to live in Vienna without encountering Sigmund Freud at some point. radio.string.quartet.vienna have also been influenced by the famous psychoanalyst as showcased on their latest album, radiodream, a musical expedition through the realm of our dreams from the most innovative contemporary string quartet around.
"What would a whole night of dreams sound like?" This is how violinist and composer Bernie Mallinger summed up the starting point for the dream project - a night full of hidden feelings and desires, fantasies and nightmares.
In his way, r.s.q.v. has already managed to achieve something remarkable. The album "Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra" (2007) with which the quartet announced its label debut with ACT, was celebrated by the critics as well as the live audience as a musical sensation. "Here jazz is given precision and depth through the classical concept without losing any swing," wrote the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" newspaper about the vital new interpretations of the fusion sounds of the '70s.
The quartet's music breaks down all typical genre boundaries. After the grooving, powerful Mahavishnu sounds, the experimental-loving Viennese consistently broadened their palette of expression with each one of their projects. With guitarist Ulf Wakenius they developed beautiful interpretations of pieces by the deceased Swedish pianist Esbjoern Svensson ("Love Is Real").
With accordionist Klaus Paier, more traditional folk elements ("Radiotree") were featured alongside more jazzy arrangements. Finally, r.s.q.v. and Swedish singer Rigmor Gustafsson proved that love songs, brilliance from the strings and vocal jazz can forge new and exciting connections ("Calling You").

The protagonists of the new Viennese school of string players, all renowned classical musicians, are united by one thing in particular: a passion for new sounds. They have adapted the absolute ideals of freedom within jazz although from a stylistic point of view their horizon is much broader. Bernie Mallinger says: "In some pieces we are actually much closer to pop or rock. And if something sounds good, you can do anything."

Links

• rsq.v Website
• radio.string.quartet.vienna - Dream Caused By The Flight Of A Bee....
• Ode an den Freud