Gustav is the nom de plume of the Austrian composer and singer Eva Jantschitsch who as achieved considerable recognition and a number of awards in her home country. Besides performing as Gustav she also regularly composes music for theater and movies. Her songs are a quite unique mixtureof pop music with electronics and the lyrics are intelligently ironic and quirky comments on social and political issues. "Gustav’s humor lends a lightness to the seriousness of her music: her creative imagination combines with a nonchalant effortlessness that takes your breath away. Musical carousel rides cavort through all kinds of possible and impossible genres, from experimental laptop sounds to folksy oompah music, pop hits, and Sicilian mandolines". (mqw.at) Most of her songs are in German, I picked Ifall as one of the rares she sings in English.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Rarely Heard: Gustav - Ifall
Gustav is the nom de plume of the Austrian composer and singer Eva Jantschitsch who as achieved considerable recognition and a number of awards in her home country. Besides performing as Gustav she also regularly composes music for theater and movies. Her songs are a quite unique mixtureof pop music with electronics and the lyrics are intelligently ironic and quirky comments on social and political issues. "Gustav’s humor lends a lightness to the seriousness of her music: her creative imagination combines with a nonchalant effortlessness that takes your breath away. Musical carousel rides cavort through all kinds of possible and impossible genres, from experimental laptop sounds to folksy oompah music, pop hits, and Sicilian mandolines". (mqw.at) Most of her songs are in German, I picked Ifall as one of the rares she sings in English.
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