Folk Bands and Artists
Hotel Palindrone
Hotel Palindrone was founded in 1995. In their early years it was Nupi Jenner, multi-instrumentalist and luthier, who strongly influenced the bands style and sound. The repertoire focused mainly on drone-music traditions from Western Europe. In 2000 Nupi left the band to dedicate himself to building instruments and to become a teacher at the renowned instrument maker department at the Hallstatt Woodwork College. Since then Hotel Palindrone’s staff has not changed: Steiner-Paulus-Natterer-Morrissey.
New regions and styles were explored: Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Alps and – playing a pretty unknown Mozart tune – classical music. Subtle arrangements were combined with intensity, original compositions complement traditional melodies. More and more the musicians dealt with historic folk recordings and old alpine manuscripts – for example the Collections Sonnleitner and J.M.Schmalnauer from the early 19th century.
The bands continuous development was very successful: Hotel Palindrone were awarded several prizes at contests and for their CDs. More and more they performed at renowned festivals and concert halls. But such engagements don’t prevent the musicians from exploring new areas, from searching new sounds and styles, and expanding their repertoire.
This is proved by their project with Marialena Fernandes. In “Hotel Haydn” the Indian-Portuguese-Austrian pianist and Hotel Palindrone play Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Scarlatti and Bartok combined with world and folk music. Thus showing that those great composers were world musicians in the truest sense of the word.
But also their latest album “Jodulator” (two international awards) demonstrates where music is moving to: A pop hit meets traditional dance tunes, Joseph Haydn goes to Transylvania – and Jodulators tell us what the universe will look like in the year 3000. Their message: “All will be fine!”
