Tosca: The new Vienna School is plugged in
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
From: John Diliberto
Length: 00:03:30
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The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn't usually have romantic intrigue and mezzo-sopranos in mind when they compose. With No Hassle, they've made an album that goes deeper than the chillout lounge. It may not make it onto the dance floor, but it will reverberate across the ballroom in your head with a sultry beckoning call and warm embrace.
Richard Dorfmeister
Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly feature an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Echo Location.
Diliberto's interests are wide-ranging, from the French retro-lounge duo Air, to Balmorhea's Americana chamber music, to Gerry O'Beirne's Celtic fingerstyle guitar and more. He's a segue master. Each edition of Echo Location features a beautifully edited music blend, that's combined with John's thoughtful insights and artists's comments to make a sound-rich journey for listeners.
Echo Location can be scheduled as a weekly series or individual episodes can be used as desired on their own, within an arts, news magazine or music program.
and Rupert Huber are eclectic musicians, avant-garde bred, jazz besotted and electronically wired. Their music, going back to their 1997 debut with "Chocolate Elvis," has always mixed heady atmospheres with sly asides. Tosca eschews conventional song forms and dramatic arcs, as each track establishes a sonic terrain and plays around inside it. They're electronica's answer to "Don't Worry, be Happy," a soundtrack to "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream."Also in the Echo Location: Soundings for New Music series
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The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn't usually have romantic intrigue and mezzo-sopranos in mind when they compose. With No Hassle, they've made an album that goes deeper than the chillout lounge. It may not make it onto the dance floor, but it will reverberate across the ballroom in your head with a sultry beckoning call and warm embrace.
Richard Dorfmeister
Echo Location is a 3 1/2 minute weekly feature an artist, event, album or trend in new music. Radio producer and music critic John Diliberto has had a long and deep relationship with new music and each week he shares the excitement of new discoveries with Echo Location.
Diliberto's interests are wide-ranging, from the French retro-lounge duo Air, to Balmorhea's Americana chamber music, to Gerry O'Beirne's Celtic fingerstyle guitar and more. He's a segue master. Each edition of Echo Location features a beautifully edited music blend, that's combined with John's thoughtful insights and artists's comments to make a sound-rich journey for listeners.
Echo Location can be scheduled as a weekly series or individual episodes can be used as desired on their own, within an arts, news magazine or music program.
and Rupert Huber are eclectic musicians, avant-garde bred, jazz besotted and electronically wired. Their music, going back to their 1997 debut with "Chocolate Elvis," has always mixed heady atmospheres with sly asides. Tosca eschews conventional song forms and dramatic arcs, as each track establishes a sonic terrain and plays around inside it. They're electronica's answer to "Don't Worry, be Happy," a soundtrack to "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream."Transcript
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The Viennese duo called Tosca may take their name from the Puccini opera, but this plugged in pair doesn't usually have sexual intrigue and mezzo-sopranos in mind when they compose.
Music
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Tosca is Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber. Dorfmeister is a half of the Kruder & Dorfmeister duo who have been making downtempo electronica since 1993 with songs like High Noon.
Music
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In 1997 Dorfmeister teamed up with Huber, his childhood friend who was already a figure on the Euopean avant-garde scene making music you're more likely to hear in Paris's Pompidou Center than a Berlin club,
music bite
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As Tosca, Dorfmeister and Huber weren't thinking operatic dramaturgy. They were thinking street singers.
Music bite “chocolate Elvis”
:14
Chocolate Elvis was their first single, using the field recording of a New York City street singer as the basis for thei...
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Incue: [sonar sound] + This is an Echo Location: Soundings for New Music.
Outcue: I’m John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location, Soundings for New Music
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chocolate Elvis | Tosca | Chocolate Elvis. | 00:10 |
