Artists
who's who and who's doing what?TIME PROJECT
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- The east / MITSOURA ()
- The north / SNÖ ()
- The south / PALYRRIA ()
- The west / LA FAMILHA ARTÚS ()
- country:Austria
- region:Central Europe
- style(s):Experimental
- label:not signed
- type:Band
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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TIME PROJECT
Can one dance when time stands still?
If so, for how long?
And is one then exhausted?
On a square in the open air,
four stages, four bands
playing from four points of the compass,
all around the audience,
ever faster, like a vortex.
Giant steps between just about and now,
thousands of kilometres within seconds.
Time revolves, places pass,
space for new dimensions.
On the edge of time
Four bands from the north, east, south and west of Europe will focus all of the world's time at one point by coming together in the open air to overcome, together with the audience, those fundamental physical and cultural laws governing duration and distance on the quest for new dimensions.
Music spans at once instants and centuries, the distance between pairs of eyes and thousands of kilometres, between Sweden and France, Hungary and Greece.
Snoe weaves electronic samples into traditional Scandinavian dance music - La Familha Artus merges traditional songs from the Gascoigne with "progressive rock" and "drum'n bass". Mitsoura play experimental Roma folk music, Palyrria shapes the sounds of the Mediterranean area into world electro.
The musicians encircle the audience on four stages. They pass their sounds on to one another. Taste them, modify them and, in a whirling motion, allow the sounds to gain speed and flow together until sound and visuals coalesce into a furious dance between images, music and time. In the archaic landscape of the stages, the audience feels the seductive power of both this completely novel live music experience and the merging of different traditions.
In the eye of the storm, time stands still.
All four music groups
present traditions
from the boundaries
of Europe and their
minority cultures.
In their songs they transpose
sounds from the past
interpreted in modern styles
into today's world.
Matthias Loibner (Aut) / conception & musical direction
Matthias Loibner was born in Austria in 1969.
After studying composition, orchestral and choral direction in Graz, Austria, he dedicated his musical efforts to the hurdy-gurdy and is one of the world's leading interpreters of this instrument. His broad musical spectrum includes Baroque and folk, jazz and electronic. His travels in search of wide-ranging musical traditions have taken him to all the continents. In 1994 he won first prize at the "Concours des vielles et cornemuses" competition in St. Chartier, France and has authored a book on the hurdy-gurdy.
Press comments:
European musical hurricane
La Strada: a real hit for Matthias Loibner.
Graz. The glowing arrangement of tents in the pitch darkness of the Augarten quickens your pulse. Then, when the ethnic minority bands, arranged at the four points of the compass, use their compelling songs and ever faster handovers to stir up a musical whirlwind, the frenzy reaches flash point.
With his "Timeproject", Matthias Loibner has scored a real hit and delivered the highlight of La Strada 08.
With "Snoe", the Swedish Sami, the Roma group "Mitsoura" and their bewitching singer "Mitsou", the hip Greek "Palyrria" and "La Familha Artus" from the Gascoigne, and with exotic instruments like the keyed fiddle, lyre and hurdy-gurdy, the park floats in an atmosphere of fantasy.
Kleine Zeitung Styria/ Friday, 8/8/2008
Lots of travellers we don't want to expel
... Anyone who really loves foreign languages made the right decision to experience the Timeproject by Matthias Loibner who, with four European bands, realised a resonating melting pot in the Augarten park. Here, the four groups were presented at the four points of the compass...
When these striking sounds merged at the end, it was perhaps the most vivid statement of the festival:
Home is wherever the beat goes on.
der Standard / Monday, 11/8/2008
The north / Snoe
Based on traditional Swedish dance music played on old Nordic folk instruments, SNOe shower their audience with an avalanche of psychedelically wafting sounds by means of live loops and electronic samples.
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The east / Mitsoura
Monika Miczura (Mitsou) is one of the most powerful voices of European world music. Her band combines very old vocal traditions of Pannonian Roma tribes with electronic samples, break beats and ambient sounds.
The west / La familha Artus
Their music is radical, because it's ethnic. Deeply rooted in the regions of their origin and, at the same time, continuously seeking something new. English progressive rock meets traditional songs from Gascoigne.
The south / Palyrria
Their "world electro", as they like to call their fusion of traditional music of the Mediterranean and electronic sounds, placed Palyrria in the top ten of world music charts numerous times.
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