Band Bio
Every single band-mate had decades of experience when IRXN met first in 2006. Initiating persons were Markus (drums) and Reinhold (guitar) after having had a similar Folk-Project together. Berni (vocals, guitar), German (violin) and Peter (bass,tuba) joined the new project subsequently and the whole thing started with a fixed appointment:
A full-length show @ The Bavarian Highland Games in Paffenhofen Bavaria the same year. This meant a hard time of synchronizing but a great starting point for our visionary project: Bringing back the root-spirits behind the well-known Bavarian Traditional Music.
IRXN is a kind of musical melting-pot as every single band-mate is coming from a different genre - the grid for our music is our vision of having old tunes turned into new style by giving in appropriately our own biographies.
A full-length show @ The Bavarian Highland Games in Paffenhofen Bavaria the same year. This meant a hard time of synchronizing but a great starting point for our visionary project: Bringing back the root-spirits behind the well-known Bavarian Traditional Music.
IRXN is a kind of musical melting-pot as every single band-mate is coming from a different genre - the grid for our music is our vision of having old tunes turned into new style by giving in appropriately our own biographies.
German (Violin)
German: Besides his studies of classical music in Vienna he got inspirations from early music, traditional folk music, Vienna parlour music, experimental-, ethno-, meditation-music. Ad-lib style in various shades is up to now the recurrent theme in his musical awareness.
Peter (Bass,Tuba)
Peter: Besides Rock, Pop and Jazz in various attributes he initially came into the merging of those styles with Bavarian music by playing the bass with the 'Hundsbuam' from 2002 to 2005.
Reinhold (Guitar)
Reinhold: His musical roots are definitely Punk rock/Ska-punk. But actually he's influenced by everything raw, brute, callowed, gross, unpolished, or just: different. He was caught by Punk rock for about 15 years. A big weakness for early music from the Middle Ages and renaissance resulted in the project D'Oxnhex.
Markus (Drums)
Markus: Influenced by the Soul-, Funk-, Pop- and Rock-music of the 70ies and 80ies. Beginning of the 90ies he was working a lot inside classical music and Jazz. The music from Hubert von Goisern and Attwenger was his inspiration to turn to Bavarian Rock-music, and of course the fact that his father was a well-known Folk-singer, traveling between pubs to perform.
Berni (Vocals, Guitar)
Berni: Is definitely rooted in traditional Bavarian Folk-Music, played guitar in various folk bands and was singing in a duo with his sister Martina as on numerous folk meetings (also airplay's and on TV). He's still performing as singer-songwriter (BernswanA).
Album Info
Oans(IRXN '07)
Löwenblut ist blaues Blut (Brickhouse '08)
Wolfspfad Limited Edition (Brickhouse '09)
Wolfspfad (MundArtAgeh: '09)
Vogelfrei (BSC: '10)
Löwenblut ist blaues Blut (Brickhouse '08)
Wolfspfad Limited Edition (Brickhouse '09)
Wolfspfad (MundArtAgeh: '09)
Vogelfrei (BSC: '10)
Since 2006 IRXN has played numerous shows in small clubs as well as really big festivals (not only Folk-Festivals) all over Germany and Austria. Just to name some of the bigger ones we played:
- tff/Rudolstadt, world's biggest Folk-Roots festival! (DE)
- Bardentreffen/Nürnberg (DE) - Tollwood/München (DE) - Vienna Folk Festival/Wien (AT) - Drumherum/Regen, biggest traditional Folk-Festival in Bavaria (DE) - Mundartfestival/Regensburg - Regenschimmern Open-Air/ Regenstauf - Open-Flair/Ingolstadt - StuStaCulum/München - Sinnflut/Erding |
- Corso Leopold/München
- Mundartfestival/Traunreut - Kulturspektakel/Gauting - Mundartfestival/Waldmünchen - Holledauer Rock Frühling/Wolnzach - Hart&Zart III/Gelting - Folk on the Water/Prien am Chiemsee - Bavarian Highlands/Pfaffenhofen - Schlossmarkt/Windach - TUNIX/München - Volxtanz/München - ToyRun/Marktoberdorf - Streetlife/München |
IRXN songs are part of various compilations as well (check out our home-page)
IRXN Website:
http://www.irxn.net
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/irxn
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/irxn
FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/IRXN/102437109796570?ref=ts
http://www.irxn.net
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/irxn
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/irxn
FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/IRXN/102437109796570?ref=ts