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20 December 2015 · Review · DE
Kurier (Diskothek, CDs der Woche): „Salesny, Bayer, Frosch und Heginger: Harry Pepl“
Werner Rosenberger
CD of the week with five stars: young Austrian musicians remember Harry Pepl on the tenth anniversary of his death; the double CD brings partly familiar and partly unreleased material by “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band”, recorded between 1996 and 2005.
The Viennese guitarist and musical border-crosser was in a class of his own
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22 October 2015 · Report · DE
Kronen Zeitung (Styria): „Die Würdigung einer Vielseitigen“
Martin Gasser
Preview of the 24th Austrian Soundcheck: Viola Falb receives the fifth Harry Pepl Prize, and a homage to Pepl is to premiere on 13 November. Clemens Salesny, Martin Bayer, Peter Primus Frosch and Agnes Heginger approach the late recordings that Pepl had made single-handedly in his studio in Lower Austria as “Harry Pepl's Lonely Single Swinger Band”.
Harry Pepl was a guitarist the like of whom this country has perhaps never produced a second time.
In his recording studio in Lower Austria the musician had recorded pieces single-handedly as “Harry Pepl’s Lonely Single Swinger Band”. With drums, guitar, piano, synthesizer and voice he created, as it were, inner dialogues.