As an accordion player, lyricist and songwriter Maxi Pongratz, the commuter between Obergiesing and Oberammergau, has already enjoyed plenty of attention with the valentinesque melancholics of the somewhat different brass band Kofelgschroa. Despite their roots in traditional alpine folk music, the "leisure musicians with a lot of free time" have always seen themselves as free spirits. In Micha Acher of indie heroes The Notwist, they found a producer who supported the quartet in their "against pigeonholing" attitude, as attested by Zeit Online. "Free. Be. Wollen" was the almost philosophical title of a documentary film about Kofelgschroa. Since the group has been dormant since autumn 2018, Maxi Pongratz is at the start as a soloist. In May, his simply titled "Maxi Pongratz" album was released. Rolling Stone recalled his "typically laconic reflections on existence, which tell of the fact that main lyricist Maximilian Pongratz has a pleasantly different definition of time, urgency and necessity than many other people of his generation"."
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