Born and raised in southern Austria, Lukas Kranzelbinder started playing bass at the age of 14 and only a year later he approached the double bass. Since studying in Vienna and Linz he has played in several bands, founded multiple projects and even wrote an opera. He is one of Austria’s most versatile bass players and his musical spectrum stretches from North-African Gnawa music, Jazz, AfroBeat to Surf-Rock. In 2016 he founded the band Shake Stew for a commission gig at the Jazzfestival Saalfelden. This AfroBeat big-band – with two drums and two basses – has managed to make audiences all over the world dance with its rolling, rhythmical & trance-inducing performances. In 2021 Lukas Kranzelbinder not only won the German Jazz Award for best international band with Shake Stew but also celebrated the 10 year anniversary with the critically acclaimed trio Mario Rom’s Interzone. He decided to join forces with the Swiss drummer and groove-musician Julian Sartorious.
… how & why:
This was the first time ever Lukas Kranzelbinder and Julian Sartorius played together and it was cut directly & unedited to vinyl. What a brave endeavour by Lukas & Julian and believe me… it paid off! Lukas switched between double bass, electric bass & guimbri and Julian used the full spectrum of his percussive drum kit and log drums to accompany the groovy ride. They recorded 33 vinyls but only the A side.
released October 16, 2022
WIEN33 is an ongoing series of direct to vinyl recordings. Artists are invited to record 7 inch vinyls, 33 units and each one by one, making each vinyl one of a kind.
Host is VINYLOGRAPH, a space for live recording that uses a lathe cutting machine built by Natascha Muhić & Christoph Freidhöfer in 2014. They based their design on the technology of recording booths popular in the 1940ies, but improved specific aspects and made the machine fully automatic. Since building the vinylograph a diverse range of vinyls have been cut in the multi-purpose space in the center of the 5th Viennese district – most direct to vinyl and in very limited series. Aras Seyhan is the sound- & recording engineer who is responsible for transporting the sound from the instruments/artists through the vinylograph and onto vinyl. A task that can sometimes be a bit tricky since the machine is a prototype that unfortunately may run into some minor difficulties.
Cut with a lathe-cutter from the 1940ies, the vinyls are mono and have a distinct vintage sound.
The series WIEN33 is curated by Clemens Radauer, a cultural historian and music aficionado, who has been working in the music context for almost 25 years. He invites artist from different backgrounds – from literature, to experimental music to jazz – active in Vienna or close to the Viennese scene.
The artists have full freedom in deciding how and what they want to record… some choose to record one song 33 times and leave the flip-side blank whereas some choose to record 66 different tracks on both sides. Clemens also designs the covers for each recording and decorates them each by hand, making them one of the kind just like every vinyl.
Each recording session has been an amazing, intense and a once-in-a-lifetime experience both for the recording artist and the WIEN33 team. And we are looking forward to many more.
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