VIENNA, AUSTRIA (Top40 Charts/ Indigo Music) - "Classic & Minimalism meets Electronic" - this could possibly be a short description for the new release of Viennese pianist, keyboarder and composer Gerald Krampl. With Innocent Wasteland he has this time radically turned away from commercial concessions like radio playability, easy accessibility, clear song structures etc., in favor of a more free, back to his personal roots reaching musical comprehension.
The music on the album stays except two electronica tunes on a minimalistic base of piano and a maximum of two more synthetic string sounds (viola or violin + cello), but extended with various electronic and nature sound effects which add to the whole the character of a soundtrack. Also one thing in mind was, that it should be possible to easily perform this music live with a small kind of chamber music ensemble, which hopefully can be realized in the near future.
The overall theme of this very reflective and somber, from classic and minimalism influenced album, which could nearly be seen as a concept album, is in general devoted to the endless cycle of destruction and the afterwards always following new awakening.
Besides Gerald's concern with spiritual and meditative music with his "Agnus Dei" project (combined New Age music & poetry and was formed in 1999 together with his wife and poet Hilde, who sadly passed away in 2002) and a classical fairy tales project also with especially composed meditative music accompanied (together with speaker Corinna Steinboeck, 2009), is his trend to create music for pictures constantly getting stronger.
On one side for concretes, as for the multimedia projects of the Viennese producer Andreas Pflanzl / woom:mediaV3:
www.31projects.at - web presentation + TV documentary about the Holocaust/Auschwitz, therefore written the music and released an expanded soundtrack CD, 2007.
www.7minuten.at - web presentation with "disability" as the thematic, also accompanied by Gerald's music, 2009.
Further cooperative projects are already planned, but moreover Andreas Pflanzl is now also involved in the visual transformation of Gerald's actual album in form of video clips, graphics, etc., and he has also done the artwork for the CD cover.
And on the other side there is the music for kind of "imaginary films in mind", as to hear on his last CD "Timediver" (a prog-rock / electronica reminiscence to Gerald's former times with his bands "Kyrie Eleison" and "Indigo" in the '70s and '80s), and obviously on his new album "Innocent Wasteland".
Soon after the release of the CD at the end of last year, which immediately led to excellent international feedback, it fortunately came in the meantime to a new cooperation with the renowned Welsh agency TSM Promotion / N. Baldrian, who took over now the promotion and representation for the UK. Seems to be a good prove for the quality and potential of the music.
CD title: Innocent Wasteland
Artist: Gerald Krampl
Label: Sandrose Records
Cat.No.: SCD 30.017
Marketing and Distribution: IndigoMusic, Vienna
Track Listing:
1. Innocent Wasteland
2. Afterwards Just Memories
3. Intimate Ghosts
4. This Brave Land
5. Colors Of Night
6. Thinking Of You
7. Red Moon Passing
8. Like Leaves In The Wind
9. Creeping Shadows
10. Long Way Home
11. Wallflower
12. Morning Breaking Through
CD is available directly from the label's site www.indigomusic.at (Shop Infos page) or www.cdbaby.com (USA), as well as from many other online stores, and to download digitally from all well known mp3 stores as iTunes, Napster, Amazon, CDBaby, etc.
Requests for review samples in form of CDs or mp3 files, interviews, further information, etc. are always welcome!
Contact:
IndigoMusic, Vienna
Web: www.indigomusic.at
E-Mail: [email protected]
