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"We want to change the world because we have already done so many times." Again and again, Andreas Spechtl said and sang this phrase, strictly accented but deliberate, accompanied by a music which seemed to happen between evening and morning, a motto, a mantra – which then pbaded to the other: "We are children of the light, we will not stop to fight the darkness!" [19659002ThusthelightoftheEnlightenmentwasinvokedundertheBaroqueraysofGodoftheKarlskirche:atouchinginvocationwhichafteranequallychargedinterpretationofJohnCale'sdark"DyingontheVine"followedanotheroutingtoIranwhose"HiddenHomes"exploredSpechtlforhisalbum"ThinkingaboutTomorrowandHowtoBuild"
A worthy conclusion of the ninth Popfest of Vienna – and also a possible buyout of what a number of "d & rsquo; artists have asked on stage, as (also in a Karlskirche) Veronika J. König aka Stuffing, which in his music this time rather dark The pop must be again more political.
The most concrete answer to this request came from the female punk band Schapka, who appeared on the Red Bull Music Stage. However, the nominative firm – or even more – criticized violently, in the ideal punk way: We do not let ourselves be bought.
In Scherzworte (about "Land of the Horses" instead of "Land of the Mountains") The chorus of the complaint criticized the government before Commissioner Nino Mandl chose Austrian football ("shoot against Ried As an object of appeal. And with the virtually grumpy Kreisky band, I complain – in the sense of the clbadic Arik Brauer ("It's a hard-hitting protest song, it's directed against whoever feels affected – even against myself") – that that, too, can certainly be the reason for complaints, after all, as we call it in a song, after all, it's a "20th century dork". For this, of course, everything is getting worse at the present time, in the restaurants of Wienerwald, CD collections and Lederhosenverweigerer are threatened with extinction. But even among young people, you often have the feeling of a fundamental pessimism: the Trump and the climate and the Orban and the social fracture and now also this government. ,, The young songwriter Felix Kramer summed up this resigned attitude to the question: "Tell me, does it happen, or is everything really bad?"
Dark Gray Songs: Felix Kramer
Perceptual Thing, and that's the name of the song: Kramer knows that his despair comes from within – and that this does not make it more bearable. For a long time you have not heard a young man write such gray texts whose simple point is often: "It did not matter". So also one of his best songs, less the cowardice of his self-observation phrases than a therapy lesson. Whatever it is, it's musical, and you'll hear about it
Focusing on Felix Kramer and Alicia Edelweiss, which reminded a bit of Hogwarts' scared teacher, Sybill Trelawney, was fiercely contested by the young, romantic FM4 audience. Devotion in the theater of accent. Quite in contrast to the floating stage concerts, where it was almost impossible to find a place where pbaders-by chatting on the chatter of music. This remains a problem in free festivals, you must accept it. The best way to endure it in hip-hop shows, where one is traditionally driven by the duo Kreiml & Samurai, for example, who warmly addresses his audience with "cheers, swine!" And cultivate a call for change with: "Woo!" Oink! "We will also remember Popfest 2018.
(" Die Presse ", printed edition, 31.07.2018)
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