Feb
27
Thu February 27th, 2014
8:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: 18+
Doors Open: 7:00PM
Show Time: 8:00PM
Event Ticket: $25
Day of Show: $30
The performance features Richard & Rupert on piano and electronics with Robert Gallagher & Cath Coffey on vocals and a sophisticated visual show created by Ars Electronica Future Lab, the famous Art / technology organization, founded in 1979 in Linz Austria. The show will contain songs from the new albums “Odeon & TLAPA” as well as some of the most popular songs from all their past releases, a 75- 90 minute journey into Tosca’s universe of ambient and electronic Vienna sounds.
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This is a general admission, standing event. Happy hour from 7-8pm including $3 beer and $5 well drinks.
Tosca Live feat. Cath Coffey & Robert Gallagher on vocals + visuals by Ars Electronica Future Lab
It’s their sixth album now coming out in spring 2013 and believe me, it is even stronger and more sophisticated than the latest one – No Hassle.
If geography has an impact on music, then Vienna has coloured Tosca’s music at every turn. Over the course of a career spanning two decades, the Austrian capital has inspired Richard Dorfmeister (of Kruder & Dorfmeister fame) and Rupert Huber to make electronic mood pieces coloured with Middle European melancholy.
It’s a bittersweet coexistence that is much in evidence on the pair’s new album, Odeon. It opens with the hazy strings of Zur Guten, which ebbs into the oozing keys and pizzicato steel string guitars of What If, which features a smokey vocal from Sarah Callier. Lead single Jayjay is a haunted combination of sombre piano chords, rolling drums and weird, otherworldly vocals from Jay Jay Jones. It’s the pivotal track on a record that sees Tosca tapping into gothic atmospheres. It’s darker than their previous five albums, more downbeat, at times ambient. It’s unlike anything else out there at the moment. Listening to a track like Meixner Nu Y you have to go back to the ’80s and The The for a reference point. It’s truly peerless stuff.
Tosca is coming back with more vocals and songs on this album, the live performances includes 2-3 vocalists, Richard and Rupert on the electronic and acoustic piano as well as a new visual concept done by the famous Ars Electronica Future Lab from Linz.
The upcoming release Odeon of 2013 already had its live premiere at the opening event of Vienna Art Fair 2012 and deeply impressed the audience.