The extraordinary music project from South Tyrol by multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Herbert Pixner (diatonic harmonica, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, percussion), Manuel Randi (flamenco guitar, electric guitar, gypsy guitar), Heidi Pixner (harp) and Werner Unterlercher (double bass) is currently one of the most successful acts in the "new
The exceptional musicians build musical bridges between their remote home regions with their unconventional line-up. With playful-lascivious gentleness, massive rock and blues riffs, brilliant technique and extatic joy of playing, they have been thrilling an ever-growing audience for years. Euphoria, energy, excitement and a lot of free improvisation - that is the mixture with which the "Herbert Pixner Projekt" electrifies the audience. Intelligent, authentic instrumental music with a lot of lightness in a famos interplay.
Here, diverse sound carpets are woven, there is room for gentle melancholy and also for outbursts that stop at nothing. Minimalist, gruff, epic and very sexy sounding. "All this is alpine world music without cultural arbitrariness at peak musicality. It embodies the urge for freedom and the romantic storm, wildness - and above all unbridled fun " states the Abendzeitung München. This is free, untamed, sometimes cool reserved, sometimes so passionately demanding that one almost forgets that live there are only four people on stage.
This is how music is supposed to sound in a world where boundaries cannot be clearly drawn. In which everything seems to fall apart and yet everything somehow belongs together."Sometimes the music is powerful, sometimes restrained, sometimes it looks at the earth, sometimes at the stars. Sounds that shine!" (Südtiroler Wochenmagazin FF) "Herbert Pixner leaves his listeners almost breathless" (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
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