5/8erl in Ehr'n

5/8erl in Ehr’n turn the tables and deliver sound therapy with BURN ON! Viennese soul serves as a painkiller against the overwhelming everyday life of our time. The 8erl move in an almost unexplored terrain of the Austrian music landscape: between melancholy, eternal grumbling and compulsive cabaret silliness, the 8erl make music in their own world, where the listener is gifted with grace, depth and humor. The Italians have a word for this: sprezzatura – an attitude that gives the appearance of lightness/effortlessness even when dealing with difficult problems. BURN ON!

In good band tradition, the political and the private are examined. Work is a theme on the new album, the country needs new work songs – or rather: idle songs. The everyday language, stylistic flourishes and empty phrases of our Geilomobil storytellers are treated, transformed and translated with self-irony into the style of Viennese soul. Of course, the sun also plays a leading role in BURN ON! At the sundowner on the Friedensbrücke, social utopias are sketched out and the polarization of society imposed on us is sung away in large choirs. BURN ON!

Aja: What the 5/8ers can still do and will probably never forget is their laid-back groove. They have perfected their do-it-yourself ethos over 18 years, playing a wide variety of music from the Danube, the Nile and the Amazon to the Missisippi in an unusual line-up. Sometimes the guitar sounds plucked like Schrammel music, the next moment muted and woody like an African kalimba. Calypso, rocksteady, jazz ballad, bossa nova sound like 5/8erl in Ehr’n from Vienna, and you can always hear the soul as a constant. “Like if Stevie Wonder had smoked a Sachertorte!” Nothing is noodled down or soullessly tinkered together in the computer, the 8erl make music and sing that it is a joy. BURN ON!

Max Gaier, Robert Slivovsky: vocals
Miki Liebermann: guitar
Hanibal Scheutz: bass
Clemens Wenger: electric piano, accordion

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Booking – Vienna Arts Management