BILDERBUCH - SOFTPOWER TOUR 2024

In the organizer's words:

Rock music is dead? Not with this band. No one has rethought and reimagined rock music as radically as Bilderbuch from Austria over the past ten years. After initially forming as a school band in 2005, the band evolved over the years and found its current line-up in 2012 with singer and guitarist Maurice Ernst, guitarist Michael Krammer, bassist Peter Horazdovski and drummer Philipp Scheibl. With the albums "Schick Schock" and "Magic Life", Bilderbuch then deconstructed their former indie rock, integrated R&B, hip-hop and dealt with the issues of their generation in a congenially casual Dada aesthetic.

The sky was now open, Bilderbuch had created a huge field for experimentation, which they explored in every conceivable direction over the coming years. With the digital double release "mea culpa" and "Vernissage My Heart", Bilderbuch integrated soft psychedelic soul and art pop, while on the current album "Gelb ist das Feld" they indulge in the rock music of the seventies.

Today, this band can combine all the styles mentioned and much more - we haven't talked about disco, two-step, and above all: hooks, hooks, hooks - again and again and refine them with their pop sophistication, because Bilderbuch themselves have such a strong signature that everything they do ends up being one thing above all: Bilderbuch. This is of course not least due to Maurice Ernst's unique lyrics, which Der Spiegel once described as "alternating between zeitgeist aphorisms, Dada and checker pose".

There is no other band comparable to this one, not only in the German-speaking world. Thus, Bilderbuch have rescued the concept of the band as a gang, as a group of friends, with extravagance, glamor and never fading inspiration into the digital space. And every time we think we've just understood them, they're already somewhere else entirely. Like the psychedelia of the current Bilderbuch EP "Softpower". There is really only one thing on every new Bilderbuch release: hits.