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CHRISTINA ZURBRÜGG –
„yodel & more“
«Zurbrügg impressed us most of all with her voice, her eloquent sense of humour and her brilliant yodelling, which lends wings to herself (and to her audience) ...»
(FF, Die Südtiroler Wochenzeitung
A Swiss girl coming to the metropolis of Vienna to yodel?
And then going back to Switzerland to doodle?
Yes, that’s reality – to be perceived as the tall figure of Christina Zurbrügg.
Zurbrügg’s attraction lies in her unique combination of singing, rapping and modern yodelling – a mixture of archaic-urban sounds with loops, natural sounds and electronics. The polyglot cosmopolitan sings German, English, French, Spanish and the exotic Schwyzerdütsch (Swiss German). And of course she accompanies herself for some of the songs on her accordion.
With her marvellous voice Zurbrügg is building bridges between down to earth traditionals and urban soundscapes. A crossover between old Viennese doodlers and alpine yodels combined with the remix culture and world music of our millennium. A Cosmo musical evening concert with an ethno pop singer and songwriter.
Raised in the Berner Oberland, Christina Zurbrügg came to Vienna after a long stay in South America and studied acting and classical singing. She became well known through her music theatre productions about the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. She studied and played folk music, shot the documentary film “Orvuse on Oanwe” about Vienna’s last doodlers (doodling is the Viennese version of alpine yodelling) and in doing so rediscovered her own roots.
Next was her solo program “Christl’s Wonderworld”. The film “Staying/Leaving” by zurbrügg & hudecek was awarded the “Golden Dragon”, her song album “now” was reviewed as a first class work between tradition and modernity and the film “Half Time” was nominated for the “Golden Rose 2009”. Last was her CD “best of yodel 99-09“.
“A musical universe that cannot be limited by any mountain, no matter how high.” (Die Presse)
Zurbrügg Trio:
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals/accordion/fujara
Michael Hudecek – sax/vocals/git/laptop www.gams.cc
Barnabas Juhasz – keyboards/vocals
Zurbrügg & Band:
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals/accordion/fujara
Michael Hudecek – sax/vocals/git/laptop www.gams.cc
Barnabas Juhasz – keyboards/vocals
Richard Filz – drums/beatboxing www.filz.at
Lina Neuner - bass
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Hörbeispiele:
01 Tje-O
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Gletscherbach
03 Salz |
zurbrügg . hudecek . novotny
“change of register“
music for yodel, church organ, hand organ, soprano saxophone and electronics
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals/accordion/fujara
Michael Hudecek – soprano sax/vocals/laptop – www.gams.cc
Josef Novotny – church organ/electronics – novotny.klingt.org
This project focuses on the combination of tradition and modernity, on sacral and new music. Just as important is the impulse to bring new musical elements like electronics to the traditional location “Church” and so to achieve an intermix of audiences: A common listening experience for a concert audience and church visitors.
The basis of the organ part is conceptual improvisation; stylistically it is a tightrope walk over abstract material and harmonic as well as melodic elements. New yodel compositions in the tradition of J. S. Bach and Gregorian chants mix with electronically adapted organ sounds. Sometimes smooth and jazzy, then again ragged and original, soprano sax and accordion meet to perform joyful grooving yodel melodies. Yodeling here is being interpreted as “vocal instrumental music”. A thoroughly spiritual kind of music from the alpine region, this way of singing finds its way into sacral rooms and forms a new synthesis with the instrument church organ.
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„still chill“ –
duo zurbrügg & hudecek
“…her music and films do not fit into traditional categories.” (Falter)
Music for two voices, accordion, saxophone and laptop – plus visuals
The live-project “still chill” developed while working on different film music soundtracks. In the beginning there was the soundtrack “tai chill” for the Tai-Chi-Dance film “IN OUT – Move the world”. A film about slowness in the hectic world of today.
“still chill” generates landscapes inside your head.
“still chill” sometimes sounds airy and light, sometimes like a Gregorian chant, sometimes smooth and jazzy, then again ragged and original. Soprano sax and accordion meet to perform joyful grooving yodel melodies and beats, followed plainly and purely by a slow instrumental ballad. A yodel solo rising above a prevailing keynote, a minor key from the Puszta hovers above a triad and then dissolves. Voice, accordion and soprano sax mix to form a very special and unique sound pattern.
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals/accordion/fujara www.zurbruegg.cc
Michael Hudecek – soprano saxophone/vocals/guitar/laptop www.gams.cc |
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„TO THE END OF LOVE“
Songs from films with accordion
played by:
Christina Zurbrügg, Maria Düchler & Martin Kelner
vocals, accordion, guitar
visuals: Thomas Treu
„To the End of Love“:
Stories full of passion, poetry and lightness, tragic and comic like life itself – songs with accordion from the beginnings of sound film till today.
Theater Drachengasse, Bar & Co
www.drachengasse.at
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„lorca & more“ –
duo zurbrügg & kelner
«The world is small and the heart is vast ...»
(F. G. Lorca)
Spanish songs from the folksong-collection of Federico García Lorca,
Flamenco and music set to the poetry of the Andalusian poet.
Music by Zülfü Livaneli, Leonard Cohen, Pepe de Lucía, Judith Pahola,
Christina Zurbrügg und Martin Kelner.
From Haitian freedom song to Asturian mountain carol,
from the tango of Argentina to Spanish-Swiss greetings from the
“Buena Vista Social Club”, congenially accompanied by the
flamenco guitar virtuoso Martin Kelner.
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals / accordion
Martin Kelner – flamenco guitar
«Magical like the early deceased poet’s words, which were interpreted
by Christina Zurbrügg with wonderful intuition.» Wiener Zeitung
“The clear, dark woman’s voice leads us into the scintillating scenes
of these songs, which accompany a whole people from the cradle to the
death in the bull fight arena. Unobtrusively, with erotic timbre, she paints
pictures of passion, blood and tears.”
(Kronenzeitung) |
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„christl's wonderworld“– zurbrügg solo
“A musical universe that cannot be limited by any mountain, no matter how high.” (Die Presse)
Pure Christina Zurbrügg:
In her solo program Christina Zurbrügg, the most charming cultural export from Switzerland to Vienna, roams through her own musical worlds – a biographical resume, so to speak. Exuberant yodels and doodles, rap, pop, tango and Spanish melancholia follow one another, as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.
At last her vocal and musical virtuosity, her eloquent sense of humor and her passion for film can all be experienced in one program:
She tells us about life at home and abroad, about coming and going, about life and show, multilingual and multicolored, accompanied by her “Golden Phil-Harmonica Orchestra” and video projections.
If Woody Allen was a female and would furthermore step down from the silver screen to entertain us with music and personal stories, then we would be right in the middle of «CHRISTL'S WONDERWORLD»:
A one-woman-show full of earthiness and glamour, offering humour and wisdom, as otherwise only life itself is able to write it. With her own works and that of others, polyglot and with exotic Swiss German – and with the most universal language of them all: Yodelling.)
A brilliant musical evening à la Zurbrügg.
Christina Zurbrügg – vocals / accordion / fujara
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