Ennui
Interlude dans un paysage avec une femme bâillante
Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen
Einsame Blume
Promenade dans une coquille de noix
Der Mond ist aufgegangen
Berceuse (mit unzureichendem Lidschluss)
Petit requiem pour un troisième homme
Teure Mutter
Choral ennuyeuse
Das Grab
Kinderwaldscene
Prière
Großes Würfelspiel
Deburau
Ouverture ennuyeuse

Peter Simonischek, voix
Ensemble Franui

Johannes Eder, clarinette, clarinette basse
Andreas Fuetsch, tuba
Romed Hopfgartner, saxophone alto, saxophone soprano, clarinette
Markus Kraler, contrebasse, accordéon
Angelika Rainer, harpe, cithare, voix
Bettina Rainer, dulcimer, voix
Markus Rainer, trompette, voix
Andreas Schett, trompette, voix
Martin Senfter, trombone, voix
Nikolai Tunkowitsch, violon

This is an album about boredom. It takes the award-winning Musicbanda Franui, accompanied by actor Peter Simonischek, away from their daily routine, back to the days of their childhood, and straight on to the graveyard. By ennui they don’t mean dull, though. Rather, it refers to a state of existential boredom, the moment when you are seized by black emptiness, when you realize the absurdity of life – or in whichever other ways this state has been described by philosophers. One of them, Kierkegaard, claimed that boredom could never be suspended by work but only by amusement. Amusement, distraction, diversion, entertainment – or, in musical terms: divertimento. Franui have woven a memorable musical tale from brilliant examples of this genre, by Mozart, Satie, Schumann, and others. All there is left to say is: amuse yourselves!