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HVOB releases their first live album. 77 sold-out concerts in places such as Buenos Aires, New York, Mexico City, and the Funkhaus Berlin, stops in 34 countries and four continents: the Rocco world tour in 2019 once again underlined the role played by Vienna duo HVOB in the world of electronic music. One of the highlights of the tour was in London on April 13, at the filled-to-capacity "Electric Brixton" music venue. The evening had already been planned in advance as an album, a lot of effort went into recording it in its entirety. Live In London will be the first live album by HVOB. A short documentary by Nicola von Leffern will be released at the same time as the album. The film director from Hamburg accompanied HVOB on tour and it delivers a very intimate, unfiltered insight into the musical lives and the routine aspects of touring for the normally publicity-shy HVOB duo Anna Müller and Paul Wallner.
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With their successful 2013 self-titled debut album (SVT 098CD) and five EPs (including SVT 097EP, SVT 102EP, SVT 118EP, and SVT 142EP) HVOB (Anna Müller and Paul Wallner) have crafted a unique sound: intelligent and driving, challenging and melodic. They have established themselves within the international music scene with these releases and with their performances, which they invariably play live, with a drummer. They played in 20 countries in 2014, and appeared at Cape Town Electronic Music Festival, the Berlin Festival, and South By Southwest. Their second album, Trialog, is, above all, an interdisciplinary art project; a discourse between the disciplines of sound, video, and installation, centered on ten ubiquitous physical processes which are documented and interpreted interactively in live performance on three artistic levels: the lyrics and sounds of HVOB, the visuals of VJs lichterloh, and orchestrated processes of visual artist Clemens Wolf. As an album, Trialog depicts the transformation of ten physical processes in ten tracks, tearing, mixing, bursting, melting, oxidizing, breaking, imploding, etching, bending, burning, track to video, video to artwork, artwork to track. HVOB's sound distinctively shapes the album, yet the duo now interpret their acoustic palette in darker, more accentuated, techno-leaning shades. Each of the ten tracks pursues its own individual dramaturgy: the opener "Azrael" tears apart its built-up percussive tension, "Clap Eyes" inches along frailly, "The Anxiety to Please" deepens and condenses until it implodes. References, inspirations, and associations between materials, processes, and artistic disciplines create an artistic depth, which renders the album a highly complex and complete work of art.
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SVT 098CD
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This is the eponymous debut album by the phenomenal Vienna duo HVOB -- a lesson in how versatile, intelligent, and creative electronic music can be. Since the first snippets appeared on Soundcloud, the young electronic duo HVOB (short for "Her Voice Over Boys") have been causing a real stir throughout Europe. HVOB have been a hit with the most influential music blogs and with the public: acclaimed appearances at the likes of Germany's MELT! Festival, landing at #4 in the Beatport deep house charts with their debut EP Dogs, rated at #10 in the "Top Live Acts of the Year" and #11 in the "Best Singles of 2012" in De:bug's readers' poll. At the end of 2012, leading Lebanese fashion designer Elie Saab used HVOB's music for the soundtrack to his collection video. Vienna-born Anna Müller (composition, production, vocals) and Paul Wallner (composition and final production) are kicking off the second year of their collaborative project with another release, only this time with more than just tantalizing snippets: this eagerly-anticipated debut LP contains 12 tracks that showcase the duo's distinctive sound -- intelligent and sophisticated, emotive and melodic. The opening track "Hold Your Horses" could be a signature tune for HVOB: organic beats, soft piano sounds, and Anna Müller's stunning voice give way to compelling deep house. Further highlights of the album: the single "Jack" with its emotive beats, the complex electronic ballad "Fog Machine," and "Always Like This," HVOB's interpretation of the track by British indie-rock band Bombay Bicycle Club.
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Vienna-based duo HVOB fuel the anticipation for their forthcoming debut album with their second EP Jack. With their inaugural release, Anna Müller (composition, production, vocals) and Paul Wallner (composition and final production) managed to create an entirely new and unique world of sound: HVOB represent intelligent and sophisticated electronic music that is equally emotive and melodic. Two prominent remixes from Edu Imbernon and Niconé & Sascha Braemer.
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