You need to listen to this...

[bovil]

Global Kryner

Yes, it's an Austrian Oberkrainer band. Check out the songs page.

Madonna a'la oberkrainer. Santana a'la oberkrainer. Labelle a'la oberkrainer.

It's the soundtrack for your next steampunk party. Really, it should be...

Comments

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I don't get how it is Steampunk. It seems more... Weird Al than Steampunk to me.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Oberkrainer is a revival of archetypal 19th century central European pop folk music. It's beer, brats, warfare and engineering. It's "Oberkrainer" because a Slovenian (Kranjska) composer spurred the revival (much to the consternation of the Austrians, Swiss and Germans who felt they were beaten at their own game).

Global Krainer is modern pop done by an oberkrainer band, and a really good oberkrainer band at that. They know they're patently absurd, but they still play it straight. I love Weird Al's polka-pop medleys, but they're rather Spike Jones, laden with silly sound effects.

I'd throw them together with The Tiger Lilies and a few other vintage-style groups in a party mix.