Alicia Edelweiss is fully blossomed in the concert hall – Diepresse.com
The Klagenfurt folk musician Alicia Edelweiss presented her grandiose album « Furie » in the Vienna Konzerthaus. Now the world career should begin.
Like many other flowers, Edelweiß has conquered a place in pop history. For example, through a delicate kitschy homage in the musical « The Sound of Music » or in 1988 by the « Bring Me Edelweiss » dance pop pod, which, Surfend on an ABBA melody, came first in six European hit parades. For several years now there has been an artist who is called: Alicia Edelweiss, born in Klagenfurt, was actually named after the Alpine Flower.
Her habitat is sunny: the singer-songwriter, who sets on a contemporary folk, blooms in the spotlight. To do this, she stages herself like a fairy from a distant fairy tale country. A blunt dress, glitter on the face and a braid inferno on the head: So she stepped in front of her fans in the Vienna concert hall. With « Furie » she just released a new album, that had to be presented. With the band including a string quartet, which her long -time fellow campaigner belongs to, the cellist Lukas Lauermann.
Eight people were temporarily on stage with her. Sometimes, for example at the opener « Devil Town », she also acted alone, sometimes with ukulele, sometimes with accordion. « I once was young » was particularly urgent. The 32-year-old intimately meditated about the often experienced discrepancy between felt and factual age. In the delicate pulsating « Feminist Girlfriend » she formulated unusual hopes regarding intimacy: « In My Dreams i’ve Found a mum to have sex with. » A gentle cover version of Daniel Johnston’s « Walking the Cow » also went very to heart. In other musical scenarios, on the other hand, she shrills, who learned her craft as a street musician across Europe, from full chest. For example in « Behind the Gates », where the musical gesture became quite strong. There was also frenetic applause for this.
