Garish
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garish - formed in February 1997 - is an Austria
n alternative rock
band. After having asserted themselves in the alternative scene inside and outside Austria's borders with their first two records "amaurose pur." and "wo die nacht erzaehlt vom tag", their third album "Absender auf Achse" gained favorable press and fan reaction. Despite German
lyrics, it is said that their emotional style of music is their "real language".
The band was nominated for the Austrian music award "Amadeus" five times (2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 & 2010), but never won it.
The band's name is an English adjective meaning dazzling, stridently coloured or excessively ornamented, gaudy, ostentatious, tastelessly showy, tacky or in raucously poor taste.
Other music projects with garish' band members include "Polman Reisen" (Thomas Jarmer & Matthias Kertal), "Esteban's" (Christoph Jarmer), "...Auf Pomali" (Julian Schneeberger with others) and "The Beautiful Kantine Band" (Markus Perner; 2002 to 2007)
Former member:
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band. After having asserted themselves in the alternative scene inside and outside Austria's borders with their first two records "amaurose pur." and "wo die nacht erzaehlt vom tag", their third album "Absender auf Achse" gained favorable press and fan reaction. Despite German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
lyrics, it is said that their emotional style of music is their "real language".
The band was nominated for the Austrian music award "Amadeus" five times (2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 & 2010), but never won it.
The band's name is an English adjective meaning dazzling, stridently coloured or excessively ornamented, gaudy, ostentatious, tastelessly showy, tacky or in raucously poor taste.
Other music projects with garish' band members include "Polman Reisen" (Thomas Jarmer & Matthias Kertal), "Esteban's" (Christoph Jarmer), "...Auf Pomali" (Julian Schneeberger with others) and "The Beautiful Kantine Band" (Markus Perner; 2002 to 2007)
Members
- Kurth Grath (bass, melodica, synthesizer, backing vocals *1980)
- Christoph Jarmer (guitars, percussion, glockenspiel, rhodes, synthesizer *1981)
- Markus Perner (drums, percussion, piano *1980)
- Julian Schneeberger (guitars, banjo, percussion, glockenspiel, piano *1980)
- Thomas Jarmer (vocals, piano, accordion, acoustic guitar, e-guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, [toy] piano, banjo, percussion, hammond, glockenspiel, singing saw *27/04/1979)
Former member:
- Christoph Gausch (hammond & live effects; August 2000 to April 2001)
Albums
- Amaurose pur. (2000)
- Wo die Nacht erzählt vom Tag (2002)
- Absender auf Achse (2004)
- Zu Gast im Studio 2 (Live album from a radio session; 2005)
- Tintenfischalarm (original soundtrack , 2006)
- Parade (2007)
- Wenn dir das meine Liebe nicht beweist (2010)