Ritornell’s track »Tide And Tickle« is featured on the compilation »Chronik 1« by swiss label Trepok. The piece »Portable Ocean« can be found on the compilation of this years lovely Störung Festival and the track Urban Heartware (feat. Mimu) is featured on the covermount CD of Fleisch Magazin issue in May! Check them all out for your personal pleasure!
About Ritornell
Ritornell consists of Roman Gerold and Richard Eigner. Together they write spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium’s music shelves for boxes marked »Electronica«, »Jazz« and »Minimal Music«. Their hypnotic passages won them Austria’s Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2003 and 2005.
Originally founded for creating the soundtrack to the dance piece »Urgent Appetite« by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel, they continued working together and since then presented their music at the Sónar Barcelona and Ars Electronica Festival, at the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne and at countless venues in Austria.
While Roman wrote a few more scores for films, dance pieces and video-games, Richard was also involved in countless other musical endeavors – he played drums on Patrick Wolf’s album »Magic Position«, worked half a year for Patrick Pulsinger, helping on remixes and building a sound library and played drums with the likes of Franz Hautzinger, Flying Lotus, Pamelia Kurstin, Hilary Jeffery and many more. His composition »Concrete Leaves« was selected by Bruce LaBruce for his melancholy gay zombie movie »Otto or up with dead people« alongside tracks by Coco Rosie and Throbbing Gristle.
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Compilation Times
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Comments (0) / posted by Richard / May 3rd, 2009Aabhsuu
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Richard Eigner just finished the music for an installation called »Aabhsuu« by Robert Seidel and Florian Licht. It’s a projection-scultpure dealing with the topic »Bauhaus in Jena« and can be seen at the Stadtmuseum Jena until 7th of June 2009. The correct title of the whole exhibtion is »In nachbarlicher Nähe - Bauhaus in Jena. Bilder, Modelle, Objekte, Fotos und Texte«. If you are near, pay it a visit!
Comments (0) / posted by Hans / April 8th, 2009Ritornell Live at Elektrofachadel
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Comments (0) / posted by Richard / March 16th, 2009Ritornell - Golden Solitude on Zero Inch
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The debut album of Ritornell - »Golden Solitude« is now featured exclusively on our friends lovely digital store Zero Inch! Gently click the picture above to check it out! It features 11 tracks of modern bliss including an outstanding remix by Dimlite. The album will be released on CD and Vinyl in March on the label Karaoke Kalk, so watch out for it in your favourite record store.
Comments (0) / posted by Richard / February 16th, 2009Dimlite + Richard Eigner »Kalimba Lifeswamp«
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Dimlite w/ Richard Eigner (Ritornell) on drums, beaming out an improv (afterwards named »Kalimba Lifeswamp«), during a Dimlite show on a lovely boat on the austrian river danube in summer 2008.
Comments (0) / posted by Richard / February 14th, 2009
