Hubert Mauracher, the dedicated musician from the tyrolean alps living in vienna since the late 1990ies, has yet reached another milestone in his career. Packed with 12 new songs, the album Loving Custodians will soon see the light of day.
Mauracher has done his job pretty well. It’s been 5 years now, that the gifted tyrolean has successfully released his first album 29 Degrees via Fabrique Records. Two singles from the album gained international success: twinkle-toed Meilenstein and epic Noonee became faves among clubgoers and critics alike. Fans of those early knob-twiddling, eclectic electro-tracks where in for a surprise when Maurachers second album Kissing My Grandma took them on a different road, a road with heavy guitars, storming drums and most of all – excellent songs.
Gone where the days of wallowing in dreamy sound-aesthetics and the call for the perfect song didn’t go unheard. Mauracher went on tour with the Sofa Surfers across europe.
Kissing My Grandma has somehow been a tribute to Mauracher’s youth, to his early bands, but also the perfect occasion to form an energetic new liveband and play tirelessly. The Mauracher live-set-up is clearly dominated by charismatic singer Maja Racki and backed by a almost traditional backing with drums, bass, guitar – and of course electronics.
On the new album Loving Custodians this now well-rehearsed band takes it a whole step further: Loving Custodians is a profound and well modelled album, that sits rightfully whithin what may be called Alternative Pop, but on the other hand, it’s much more. It’s a journey through the Mauracher cosmos, filled with sparkling lights, contemplative depths and myriads of details – but it always keeps up its lighthearted approach to live, the universe and all the rest. But listen to the man himself: “Maybe some people won’t get access to Loving Custodians easy, but if you listen some more and let the music speak to you, it will grasp your attention and will not be laid aside – that was very important to me, that the album grows anytime you give it a listen. And the custodians (=watchmen) guard over it.”
From the tender age of 17 on, when he played live for the first time on drums, Hubert Mauracher has been facinated by the creation of music, of writing songs, of playing and blending styles until his individual ideas took form in the shape of a song. He knew that he had to go his own way and pursuit his visions within his own project.
“Sometimes a new song almost happens to me, in a matter of seconds, sometimes I tinker with a new track for months.” Mauracher explains. As a matter of fact, all the 12 songs on Loving Custodians are compostions by himself, recorded in Weilheims’s Uphon-Studio together with his band Martin Weismayr (bass), Daniel Grailach (guitar), Sasa Nikolic (drums) and the aforementioned Maja Racki on vocals. With meanwhile legendary producer Mario Thaler (Console, The Notwist) at the controls no chances where taken and the final mastering has been made at the nonetheless legendary Sterling Sound-Studio in New York. |
