Vienna Art Orchestra

[Victor Christensen]

I have 3 CD's with them, but it took me a while to get used to their sound, but the more I listen the better it gets, very original band.

Any opinions on the rendition on the Dolphy ?

Vic

[king ubu]

Love the Dolphy disc, like quite a lot most of what I heard by the VAO!

The Satie disc (Minimalism of Erik Satie, Hat Hut) is excellent!

Most of their stuff is OOP alas (more than a dozen albums on what I think was/is a Universal Austria sub, Amadeo or something like that).

[colinmce]

I'd like to hear the Dolphy, but am having trouble finding it. Any links?

[king ubu]

It was part of this 3CD set:

(the other discs are a ballad album with various guest singers, and a "serious" composition album by Rüegg, which I think I played but once or twice)

No leads as to where to find the Dolphy disc, alas.

[B. Clugston]

I love From No Time to Rag Time on hat art, which covers Rudd, Braxton, Mingus, Ornette and more. Lauren Newton's singing is amazing.

[greggery peccary]

The Dolphy record does sound interesting. Here is a link VAO Dolphy and this is the info:

Powerful Ways - Nine Immortal

Non Evergreens for Eric Dolphy

Hat was/is supposed to reissue the Minimalism of Erik Satie....hopefully soon

Edited May 20, 2010 by greggery peccary

[clifford_thornton]

I had a few of their early things on Hat LPs and didn't "get it" at the time. Maybe a revisit is in order.

[king ubu]

yup - scheduled for late May it seems is:

hatOLOGY 679

Vienna Art Orchestra

A Notion In Perpetual Motion

I'll have to get that one.

Recently bought "Tango from Obango" (but as a single LP - seems there's a 2CD or 3CD set of that?)

Their discography is actually pretty big:

http://www.vao.at/v2/display.php?id=61

[Guest Bill Barton]

An amazing group...

From No Time to Rag Time always knocked me out. Perpetuum Mobile is also a fine collection.

It's too bad that so much of their recorded output is either insanely expensive and/or very difficult to find these days. Perpetuum... is going for about $70 on eBay.

[Afric Pepperbird]

I must agree on the Satie. Excellent!!

I also love both volumes of Nightride of a Lonely Saxophoneplayer (very OOP, however)

[Van Basten II]

Always fun to listen to them, agreed with the majority the Satie is the one that stands out the most

Edited May 25, 2010 by Van Basten II

[J.A.W.]

This 3 CD set came out 3 years ago entitled Vienna Art Orchestra- Triology 30th anniversay on emarcy/universal. I can't find any reviews at all on this......was wondering if anyone on this board is familiar with this.....my only question is how much singing is on this set.

I think this is the set you're referring to:

3 Trilogy-30th Anniversary Box

I have merged your thread with the existing one about the Vienna Art Orchestra. It might get more attention.

[king ubu]

Can't remember how much singing there is - picked it up for a sale price and it's ok, but not that exceptional, I found. Same mostly for the 25th anniv. 2CD set (disc 2 of that one is a remix done by that guitar player named Koller who sometimes appeared/appears with the VAO).

Ah, here's a PDF of the whole booklet, check pp. 20-21 of the PDF (pp. 38-40 of the booklet) for soloist/vocalist* listings.

*) Anna Lauvergnac only - she's not bad.

[Adam]

This 3 CD set came out 3 years ago entitled Vienna Art Orchestra- Triology 30th anniversay on emarcy/universal. I can't find any reviews at all on this......was wondering if anyone on this board is familiar with this.....my only question is how much singing is on this set.

I think this is the set you're referring to:

3 Trilogy-30th Anniversary Box

I have merged your thread with the existing one about the Vienna Art Orchestra. It might get more attention there.

I have this set. I don't recall much singing. But I also think, as others, that it is ok, and not as interesting as the Hat Arts.

[king ubu]

sorry, I forgot the link above - here it is, from the official website, w/full details:

http://www.vao.at/v2/data/pdf/vao_3.pdf

[Victor Christensen]

I have just recently discovered that band, it's something else, I especially like "Nine Immortal Non-Evergreens For Eric Dolphy" and "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love". I just can't desribe it, it's straight forward swing and then it changes to something else, really amazing and very good, great arrangents by Mathias Rügg (the bandleader). Any other who dig them ?.

Vic

[RDK]

Victor, yes, though I haven't yet heard the Dolphy album, I very much dig VAO. "Sound of Love" is very good!

[king ubu]

Seems they reached their end.

Short notes about it in yesterday's press... lack of a larger amount of money prevents Rüegg from continuing.

Not sure how bad a thing that is, as to me they went from exciting to highly enjoyable to... well, very good but not something I'd run to hear these days. Sorry to say so, but maybe they just reached the end of what certainly was a great run, with over a thousand shows and around forty albums released.

Here's the news (in German and English below) from their website.