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Kurt Hinterholzl and his night songs

Kurt Hinterholzl and his night songs

“I’m a little angry,” says Kurt Hinterholzl calmly, as if he wanted to give his words even more emphasis. Anger at much of what is happening around us is not written on his face. He poured it into songs. To be heard on “Nochd”, the new album by Kurt Hinterholzl & Friends, produced by Walther Soyka.

No, it wasn’t a concept, asserts the man from Linz, who grew up in Neue Heimat. “It just struck me that I wrote a lot of social criticism.” At a time when he had selected the songs for the current production, he discovered his angry side in many of the lyrics – and stands by it, even if it is not normally his style in this concentrated form and was not planned that way either.

Basically, he sees himself as a storyteller. This sometimes has to do with his life story. He describes “Im Broda” as an apology to his grandparents, with whom he spent the first years of his life in Vienna. The apology has to do with his rejection of the Viennese songs that were constantly sung by his grandmother. Later he recognized their quality.

The long conversations with his friend Ernst Molden every three weeks inspire Hinterholzl. So much so that texts often write themselves afterwards. That’s not always like that. “I’ve had a casual piece of music for three months, but I just can’t think of any lyrics to it,” he says with a grin. The serenity that something will come of it at the given point in time is based on decades of experience. Since the Linzer familiar with the pronounced love for Italy.

Even if the album is called “Nochd”, it has not become a dark work. Blues, ballads and waltzes come together here, but despite all the reflection and all the anger of the songwriter, you will not find one topic: Corona. “I didn’t process that,” he says. That’s what other people do, and being self-pitying doesn’t help. Quite apart from the fact that he hadn’t come up with anything on the subject that had dominated the past two years. (rgr)

Concert: 7 October, 7.30 p.m., Alte Welt on the main square in Linz

Source: Nachrichten

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