Wolfgang Ambros - Ambros Pur VII

Prinz-Eugen-Straße/ Ecke Plößlgasse

1030 Wien

 

An "unplugged" musical journey through time with the Austrian singer-songwriter legend Wolfgang Ambros (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and Günter Dzikowski (keyboards and vocals) and Roland Vogl (guitar, bass and vocals).

There is no doubt that Wolfgang Ambros' music has soul. Experiencing him like this - musically reduced to the acoustic guitar, plus the playing of Günter Dzikowski on the keyboards and Roland Vogl on the bass - is particularly fascinating. Ambros has been delighting audiences in this form for over a decade. A special concert experience in exclusive theaters and smaller halls.

The renaissance of one of the most important musicians and singers of all time, the great Johnny Cash, was triggered by the basically obvious idea of ​​sitting him down with just an acoustic guitar and letting him play. Without any "unplugged" nonsense: the reduction to the essentials, the search for the essence of their music has done many artists good, provided their music has an essence, a soul.

There is no doubt that Wolfgang Ambros' music has soul. A prickly one perhaps, a great one certainly. This man's musical achievements are legion; hardly anyone has sung such words about quintessentially Viennese and Austrian sensibilities as he has, so aptly that they endure for decades as commentaries on a world that at its core remains the same. Hardly anyone has managed to combine the existential (love, death and everything else) with lightness, full-bodied "slander" as he has; just think of "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" as one of countless examples. And nobody has taken on the work of such great artists as Bob Dylan, Hans Moser, Tom Waits or Neil Young as he has without ever producing embarrassments or leaving behind the stale feeling of standing on the shoulders of giants.

It is a treasure chest that creaks open and gradually reveals its treasures when you put Wolfgang Ambros on stage with "only" his voice, a guitar and the musicians Günter Dzikowski and Roland Vogl at his side. Dzikowski, a long-time musician of the No. 1 from the Vienna Woods, and Roland Vogl, who has been on tour with Ambros for years, know the extensive Ambros song catalog (almost) as well as their "boss", and yet it is also a stimulating journey of discovery for the three performers to discover and rediscover many of these songs in an intimate setting. "Even big numbers like "Zentralfriedhof" or "Heit drah I mi ham" suddenly become immediately tangible again," says Ambros.

Audiences and critics reacted to the previous Ambros pur! Evenings were accordingly enthusiastic, when else do you have the opportunity to be so close to a giant of local pop music like Wolfgang Ambros and his songs, many of which have long since become folk songs of a different kind.

(Source: theaterimpark.at)