Drank live at Artacts Festival 2024

Ingrid Schmoliner - prepared piano Alex Kranabetter - trumpet, electronics Ingrid Schmoliner and Alex Kranabetter are pillars of the improvised and experimental music scenes in Austria stretching back more than a decade. Although the former is known primarily as a pianist and vocalist and the latter as a trumpeter, they both possess seriously expansive sonic palettes. Schmoliner works rigorously with sound direction to generate vibrant psychoacoustic and spatialized effects, while Kranabetter routinely deploy electronics to radically transform and expand his sound worlds in solo and collaborative settings. Perhaps no single endeavor captures the full splendor of their aesthetic tendencies like their duo Drank, which will release its stellar debut recording breath in definition on Trost. The album includes guest appearances drummer Lukas König and Soap&Skin (aka Anja Franziska Plaschg), but this music is all drank.