2023-10-19 07:57:28
Hesch wella, schleck d’Kella: With ROSI SPEZIAL, the Gsiberger Goschen gigagames regarding jazz and its sideshows. In this way, three Urvorarlbergers and “üser Quotenwiener” provide fans and friends of genre names with the adventurous variations since Koenigleopold: “Free pop, avant-garde folk music, psychedelic hits” – cultural editors pull out all the stops at, for and in front of ROSI SPEZIAL. Also because no one understands the V-Style beyond the second sound shift. I don’t care, it’s fine! The self-proclaimed free jazz pop music band challenges the Austro tongue on “Katza-Jazz” (via FÜDLA RECORDS) and titles like “Ratzaköpfle” and “Sure Kätzle”. MICHAEL NAPHEGYI, MICHAEL BLASSNIG AND LUKAS SCHIEMER therefore spoke to a state representative – and explained why the EAV will never be able to enjoy Mohrapfiffle.
With your band you are last in the swamp been!
Michael Naphegyi: Kathi Seidler was great, she really thought regarding our record.
Michael Blassnig: In contrast to reporting on vol.at.
Michael Naphegyi: They have it thegap-Article simply adopted – from the headline to the last sentence.
Michael Blassnig: You can’t actually do that.
Michael Naphegyi: After all, the text is behind the paywall there – otherwise it would probably get out of hand in the comments.
Bullshit Bingo in Gsibergisch?
Michael Blassnig: Fix, people like to get upset there.
For Rosi Special That’s a great idea: the texts write themselves!
Michael Naphegyi: We recycle the trolls anyway – even in the press release.
Michael Blassnig: Yes, for “A Juicy Fax,” which came out a few years ago, we simply adopted individual comments, they were so subterranean.
You don’t have to satirize Vorarlberg’s front yard bourgeoisie.
Michael Blassnig: Exactly, we’re not exaggerating anything.
Michael Naphegyi: It’s weird enough.
Michael Blassnig: But we try hard not to offend anyone.
The Mandl Schorschyour quota Viennese, you left at home today.
Michael Blassnig: But he was there for the recording in Laterns. It suited him, also because he likes the mountains. Also: the house, the atmosphere! The record captures that.
It corresponds to the beautiful narrative of a band that disappears into nature and then crafts their songs in a remote wooden hut.
Michael Blassnig: That’s right, the classic! We didn’t do any tinkering, we just improvised.
Michael Naphegyi: Well, we didn’t improvise that much!
Michael Blassnig: It’s just two long takes.
Michael Naphegyi: That’s not that much. We were in Laterns for a week and did things other than music, for example a mountain tour.
Michael Blassnig: Night hiking, yes! And we also watched tennis.
Michael Naphegyi: With our last album “Alles isch Alles” we really wanted to make an album with actual songs.
Michael Blassnig: And we recorded it for a month – even with a schedule.
“I WASN’T SO SURE IF THE TRUST WAS ENOUGH FOR A WHOLE RECORD.”
Michael Naphegyi: Exactly, we had song ideas. That didn’t actually exist with “Katza-Jazz” because it wasn’t intended to be a free jazz record, but one with which we celebrate what we put on stage.
Michael Blassnig: That’s why I was really nervous before the week in Laterns as to whether it would work.
Because you recorded blank?
Michael Blassnig: Someone called it trust. But I wasn’t so sure whether that would be enough for a whole record. After all, Michi had something like a basic idea for “Hundeholz”.
Michael Naphegyi: Everything else was let’s see.
With self-irony you eventually reach the limit where it turns into cringe. With you it’s never cringe, but it’s still ironic. Because you take yourself seriously despite the slapstick?
Michael Blassnig: It has to be musically sound and remain exciting. This is possible because we have mastered a basic level of our instruments. Furthermore, we can allow ourselves not to take ourselves so seriously. But if you just trust that you’re funny, you’ll be fine …
Michael Naphegyi: Random!
Michael Blassnig: Besides, I’m not that funny on stage.
Michael Naphegyi: You have your role as an introverted bass player.
Michael Blassnig: Otherwise everyone is funny: Luki, you, the bartender, Schorsch anyway.
Michael Naphegyi: Haven’t you ever played a concert without pants?
Michael Blassnig: In the pool bar! Years ago! And at least I’m wearing underwear, because I don’t dare wear them without them.
Michael Naphegyi: That’s coming! In the The hugger?
Vienna would be more grateful than Feldkirch.
Michael Blassnig: Probably, but if: then in Feldkirch.
Michael Naphegyi: Best at the awards ceremony for Sound©V.
Michael Blassnig: Then they take the price away from us once more.
Michael Naphegyi: Ah look, here comes the next Vorarlberger!
Lukas Schiemer: Seavas! I’ve just been looking for a parking space for 25 minutes!
Michael Blassnig: Just so we all have an idea of what our rehearsals are like: everyone arrives at some point.
Michael Naphegyi: And once everyone has made it, we record quickly.
For example an electric Guzzi number…
Michael Naphegyi: “Ratzaköpfle”, do you mean?
Michael Blassnig: We really have the song as Electric Guzzinumber.
Lukas Schiemer: We called it Elektro Gutschi.
“THERE IS A HIGH DANGER OF IT SOUNDING TOO CONCERNED BECAUSE WE JUST WANT TO REPRODUCE IT.”
Anyway, I imagine it well: somewhere in the mountains, suddenly techno.
Michael Naphegyi: That was an evening jam, it has something dark to it, like “Frei Jass” – but we recorded it sometime in the morning.
Michael Blassnig: I’m thinking more of dawn.
Michael Naphegyi: But “Ratzaköpfle” was: evening.
That’s where the truths are lost.
Michael Naphegyi: In any case, it will be exciting to see how we implement the song live. It was completely free, but people have to check at the concert: Aha, now they’re playing it!
Lukas Schiemer: There are elements that shape the song.
Michael Blassnig: Your crickets, for example.
Lukas Schiemer: I have no idea how I did that. It was a loop, absurdly often octaves…
Michael Naphegyi: So you know how it works!
Lukas Schiemer: Well, it should sound like crickets!
Michael Blassnig: The danger is that it sounds too trying because we just want to reproduce these elements.
Michael Naphegyi: Because free things are largely regarding energy.
Michael Blassnig: Exactly, the jams have a basic mood. You have to get there live first!
Michael Naphegyi: But I have faith in us.
So we end up back with trust.
Lukas Schiemer: Even though the recordings were so chaotic! During the jams I often had no idea what you were doing.
Michael Naphegyi: We just started.
Without alpine herb?
Lukas Schiemer: Only with Mohrapiffle!
Michael Blassnig: From the vending machine!
Lukas Schiemer: Yes, that’s right, he only ever spat out one thing.
For Hinterberglers: You mean a beer that comes from a vending machine?
Lukas Schiemer: Yes, there is a beer vending machine in Laterns.
Michael Naphegyi: The Vorarlberg essentials!
Lukas Schiemer: The Schorsch card didn’t work at first. I wanted to call the bank to complain. But we realized that we made a mistake when entering it.
Michael Blassnig: The Schorsch then bought out the entire machine. One following the other. But it took forever for a beer to come out.
Lukas Schiemer: That’s why we drank the first one right in front of the machine.
And then you started.
Lukas Schiemer: Exactly, for example the Gutschi number: I played this carnival game, everyone got in…
Michael Naphegyi: We only cut out Schorsch’s guitar followingwards…
Michael Blassnig: Well, I have to go.
Well, that’s where things get so exciting!
Michael Blassnig: I’ll be on time tomorrow for that. We rehearse at 11.
Michael Naphegyi: A 10!
Michael Blassnig: Ah yes, bye!
So, we were just in Laterns, right?
Michael Naphegyi: We recorded there, in my parents’ house.
Lukas Schiemer: Once the neighbors came in while we were recording – I was playing the tin watering can as a saxophone. They were completely stunned.
It can’t be the case that artists are sent to Vienna and then they come back as free jazzers!
Michael Naphegyi: Na ja, Freejazz…
Well, removed.
Lukas Schiemer: In any case, we don’t fit into the jazz club in Lustenau.
Michael Naphegyi: We don’t serve any genre. That’s a blessing and a curse because people then say: Well, it just doesn’t fit.
Koenigleopold never fit in either.
Michael Naphegyi: Nevertheless, it is increasingly a requirement that as a musician you work in a certain genre. It shouldn’t be too diffuse. Otherwise it doesn’t fit the label or the festival.
That’s why you play like last time Pool bar festival next to Helge Schneider – then everything works.
Michael Naphegyi: By the way, I shook his hand briefly, but I had no idea what to say to him.
Lukas Schiemer: After his performance, he drove away in his sports car. But the performance was great.
Michael Naphegyi: Real?
Lukas Schiemer: Yes / Yes! But what I want to say: We constantly get strange requests, for example as an opening act for them EAV. But they canceled that because they had a bad experience with their opening band in Styria.
Michael Naphegyi: Most event organizers probably only see one of our videos and think we’ll fit in with them. Then we come – and we are a surprise egg!
Lukas Schiemer: We should have played as the opening act for drummer Billy Cobham in some town. I have no idea how the organizer came across us. Anyway, it was his birthday…
Michael Naphegyi: And loved our live painting thing. However, the person who is responsible for this for us was unable to make the appointment. So I did it. There were three screens around the stage. During a few improvisations I got up and painted something.
Lukas Schiemer: And of course Billy Cobham didn’t come.
Incomprehensible.
Michael Naphegyi: In any case, it should Rosi Special cannot be classified. The online platforms now set enough limits anyway.
Lukas Schiemer: What’s even worse is: Where do you send an album like that to get it played? There is no longer a single relevant radio station that features such music.
Except in the so-called niche shows.
Lukas Schiemer: Apart from that you can FM4 but don’t listen to it anymore. At S1 Our music doesn’t stop either. And at Radio Vorarlberg They mean well towards us. “Hundeholz” still doesn’t end up in the rotation because: We’re too crazy.
Although everything is in the Ländle dialect.
Michael Naphegyi: That was the reason for Rosi Special: The dialect is crisp and jagged. It’s so blasting – almost like a Dadaist poem. Viennese, on the other hand, is much more rounded.
Lukas Schiemer: And when Ur-Vorarlbergers get upset…
Michael Naphegyi: That just sounds cool! By the way, I’ve only noticed this since I’ve been living in Vienna. The distance reveals the specialness. I have something similar too FM4 said because: Vorarlberg is not part of what is declared as Austropop.
Lukas Schiemer: And Ländle pop resonates
Michael Naphegyi: Garage pop cover band for…
We’re not saying that now. But thank you for your time!
Christoph Benkeser
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Rosi Spezial will play the “Katza-Jazz” album release show on October 20th, 2023 at the Kramladen in Vienna. All information can be found here.
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