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Loving Custodians - Release: 25.01.08
Hubert Mauracher, the dedicated musician from the the tyrolean alps living in vienna since the late 1990ies, has yet reached another milestone in his career. Packed with 12 new songs, the album Loving Custodians will soon see the light of day.
COURAGEOUS, UNCOMPROMISING, STRAIGHTFORWARD
Mauracher has done his job pretty well. It’s been 5 years now, that the gifted tyrolean has successfully released his first album 29 Degrees via the small viennese label Fabrique Records. Two singles from the album gained international success: twinkle-toed Meilenstein and epic Noonee became faves among clubgoers and critics alike. Fans of those early knob-twiddling, eclectic elektro-tracks where in for a surprise when Maurachers second album Kissing My Grandma took them on a different road, a road with heavy guitars, storming drums and most of all – excellent songs. Gone where the days of wallowing in dreamy sound-aesthetics and the call for the perfect song didn’t go unheard. Universal Music Austria discovered the great talent and Mauracher went on tour with the Sofa Surfers across europe.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
Kissing My Grandma has somehow been a tribute to Mauracher’s youth, to his early bands, but also the perfect occasion to form an energetic new liveband and play tirelessly. The Mauracher live-set-up is clearly dominated by charismatic singer Maja Racki and backed by a almost traditional backing with drums, bass, guitar – and of course electronics. On the new album Loving Custodians this now well-rehearsed band takes it a whole step further: Loving Custodians is a profound and well modelled album, that sits rightfully whithin what may be called Alternative Pop, but on the other hand, it’s much more. It’s a journey through the Mauracher cosmos, filled with sparkling lights, contemplative depths and myriads of details – but it always keeps up its lighthearted approach to live, the universe and all the rest. But listen to the man himself: “Maybe some people won’t get access to Loving Custodians easy, but if you listen some more and let the music speak to you, it will grasp your attention and will not be laid aside – that was very important to me, that the album grows anytime you give it a listen. And the custodians (=watchmen) guard over it.”
From the tender age of 17 on, when he played live for the first time on drums, Hubert Mauracher has been facinated by the creation of music, of writing songs, of playing and blending styles until his individual ideas took form in the shape of a song. He knew that he had to go his own way and pursuit his visions within his own project. “Sometimes a new song almost happens to me, in a matter of seconds, sometimes I tinker with a new track for months.” Mauracher explains. As a matter of fact, all the 12 songs on Loving Custodians are compostions by himself, recorded in Weilheims’s Uphon-Studio together with his band Martin Weismayr (bass), Daniel Grailach (guitar), Sasa Nikolic (drums) and the aforementioned Maja Racki on vocals. With meanwhile legendary producer Mario Thaler (Console, The Notwist) at the controls no chances where taken and the final mastering has been made at the nonetheless legendary Sterling Sound-Studio in New York.
Hubert Mauracher has taken his creative explorations on the next level. A level, where he stands among some great names and will sure stand the test. A new challenge, but one grows with challenges and now let’s hear it for hubert mauracher himself, as he explains the songs:
Breathe It In >
A hint for the ladies and gentlemen in charge of the planet.
Rosary Girls >
This came to me when i shared a cabin with two girls and both of them prayed the rosary for more than an hour. I was irritated and kind of overstrained with the situation although I’m very easy going and won’t interfere with other people’s business. But I began to wonder about personal constraints in general, where do they begin? And where do they end?
This will also be the first single taken off Loving Custodians.
Anytime >
Confused thoughts after an argument. Emotional dust flies through the air. But also the finding, that going through it again will lead to delevelopement, to growth.
Butcher Boy >
A quite ironic review of my past as the son of a butcher’s family.
Wall Clock >
Finding awareness of the fragility of a relationship. It’s easy to be forgotten. Desire, gratitude and the question if there is an expiration date, if there is such a thing anyway.
Lost >
A story from the viewpoint of a needle, always being put back in the haystack by various circumstances.
Sensitive Rocket >
Thoughts about my beloved dog and the cancer who took his life. I spent 13 wonderful years with him.
Nostalgia >
A child, sitting on the lap of an old woman, listening to her stories. Tense, but fascinated and comforted, the child tries to read the stories behind the stories from the old womans face.
The Duck Killed The Bee >
I watched a duck, eating a bee at the lakeside and tried to distract her with bread, but the bee’s fate had been sealed.
Quiet >
This is about two emotional extremes, which need one another in order to gain strength.
Trustfulness, confidence – drifting in water, lying in the back and on the other hand – panic, stress, escape to the point of a panic attack.
Free The Dogs >
I once read in an article that there would be a small bulgarian village, where they would wrap dogs in a rope and throw them. The more the intestines fly out of the dog, the more luck the thrower would have. The pictures were horrible and shocking. And that’s when I started my musical liberation army in a 12 monkey style.
Tirana (Bonustrack) >
A short narration of our trip to Tirana, where we managed to stop a fully occupied Boeing 737 in order to pick up our baggage, which we saw on the baggage car near the airstrip. The captain explained to the other passengers that there was on orchestra on board and they forgot their instruments … |
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