Anna Lang: cello, electronics, percussion
Alois Eberl: trombone, accordion, vocals, percussion, electronics
"Human Faces"
Sinfonia De Carnaval - that's Anna Lang and Alois Eberl on cello, trombone, accordion, percussion, electronics and voices.
The cello is bowed to percussively tapped. The trombone sung to hissingly breathed. In between beat boxing and pulsating stomp box. Plus virtuoso improvisations and ingenious arrangements. Sinfonia de Carnaval creates a unique sound: instrumental art pop that knows no bounds!
Human Faces is the title of the new album by Sinfonia de Carnaval. The music is clear and distinct. “Human Faces” reads the depths of the faces of people and animals. Moments become sound portraits. Scenes of nature become sound paintings. The power and elemental force, but also the tenderness and vulnerability of nature inspired the award-winning duo to create new Sinfonia de Carnaval - sound stories. The colorful energy and expressiveness of painted art were clearly the inspiration here. The unique Sinfonia de Carnaval color palette is immersed generously, enjoyably and without limits. The sound fantasies of Anna Lang and Alois Eberl are sometimes packaged in brute orchestral epics or, quite simply, in intimate dialogues. “Two are a symphony!” (Radio Ö1)
With Sinfonia De Carnaval, Anna Lang and Alois Eberl present another highlight of their numerous and varied programs. Nominated for the BAWAG P.S.K. Next Generation Award 2015, selected as one of the best five bands in the jazz category by the Austrian Federal Ministry for the “New Austrian Sound Of Music Program 2018/19” and one of seven bands of all contemporary genres awarded the top funding of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, the international springboard FOCUS ACT 2019, Sinfonia De Carnaval has performed internationally in Switzerland, England, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Croatia, France, Italy, Israel, Palestine, Estonia and Germany.
In October 2021, the duo Sinfonia de Carnaval presented its second album “Sweeping Dragon” on the Preiser Records label.
In April, Sinfonia de Carnaval performed as Austria's contribution to the European Showcases at jazzahead! 2024 in Bremen.
In 2025, Sinfonia de Carnaval's third album, “Human Faces”, will be released on the Neuklang label of the renowned Bauer Studios Ludwigsburg.
MUSIC:
PICS: by Maria Frodl
"Human Faces" 2024/25
"Sweeping Dragon": 2021
"Figuras de baile": 2018
"This kind of Jazz draws from the full source of inspiration. Anna Land and Alois Eberl are two of the most promising talents of the Austrian jazz scene. Anna Langs main instrument is tbe Cello, but she also switches to the piano and plays it superb. Alois Eberl switches between the accordion and the trombone. On his main instrument, the trombone, he creates very different and stunning kinds of sounds, using some types of mutes.(...) "
“Splendid, the music-duo Anna Lang and Alois Eberl on the cello, piano, oboe, accordion and trombone.(...) wild broom-wielding, light-footed men, Shrovetide witches and jumping harlequins: with grandiose harmony including their improvisations, the artists (who have made Vienna their home), paint a mural of sound for these figures with instruments and voices. Artists paint with brushes, Lang and Eberl have no need for them (…)"
“(...) Anna Land and Alois Eberl were exciting. Alternating between the accordion and trombone (Eberl) as well as cello and piano (Lang) they performed a dance of tones, full of joy and tempo (…)”
“Anna Lang is a cello player who has the talent and the passion to portray moods, images and colours in tones.”
“... enchanting, lyrical and amusingly abstract: Alois Eberl on the trombone”
“Cello, piano or oboe? No problem, Anna Lang has got them all together in a personal union.”
“Anna Lang and Alois Eberl are known as the driving forces of the versatile Kammer-Jazz-Quartetts “PianoForteBrass”, which was founded in 2010. The Upper Austrian pianist and cello player and the Tyrolean trombonist and accordion player, who have found a new home in Vienna, also work together in a leaner mode under the name “Sinfonia de Carnaval”. In their programme “Figuras de baile” they present a multi-faceted selection from their new CD. They describe the compositions as “musical short stories” about “dancing, ugly, beautiful, eerie (…) wild or tragic figures” such as carnival witches, tango-dancers and harlequins. Before your ears unfold numerous vividly euphonic images set between groovy improvisations, palatable melodies as well as complex multi-phonics.”
