MLOK association in cooperation with Skolska gallery and supported by Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague present Die Strecke (dir. Max Neufeld, 1927).
Fabian Pollack and Alexandr Vatagin had their first mutual musical encounter at the Viennale 2010 film festival. The prestigious festival invited them to compose the music for a silent movie called Die Strecke (The Line) from the year 1927. Since the collaboration worked out very well the musicians decided to do further performances. A 64 minute journey awaits the listener/viewer, leading him through the aesthetics of a beautiful black and white universe, coupled with the sounds of a guitar and a chello that finely interweave Improvised Music, Ambient/Noise and Jazz. They accompany and adorn the movie, but at the same time they intervene and therefore give it a unique touch.
A railway signalman’s wife is feeling constricted by her parochial life and yearns for the sophistication and excitement of the city, that she only knows from magazines. The suave, attractive new controller fills her head with dreams in order to seduce her. Accused of adultery, she is spurned by her narrow-minded husband. In a dramatic finale, she loses her way while following the rails through wind and rain toward an almost certain death.
Music: Fabian Pollack, guitar and devices, Alexandr Vatagin, cello und electronic sounds.
Alexandr Vatagin lives as a musician and producer in vienna, plays in four bands: port-royal, tupolev, slon, werner kitzmüller trio and several projects. until now he also released two critically acclaimed solo albums. He is always on the border of many different musical styles - as a musician and as a producer. from experimental electronic music to singer/songwriter music, from improvised music to rock, from jazz to dancemusic. Since 2008 he runs also the viennese label valeot records. In 2009, the biggest austrian music magazine "thegap" chose him as one of the 100 most promising young austrian artists. He colloborated with Martin Siewert (trapist, heaven and), Bernhard Fleischmann, Stefan Nemeth (radian, lokai), Danny Grody (the drift, tarentel), Alexander Schubert(sinebag, ahornfelder), Nicolas Bernier, Fabian Pollack, George Bagdasarov and many others. Fabian Pollack is a guitarist who deeply appreciates a whole range of different musical styles, and plays primarily with the bands nifty’s, zur wachauerin and brpobr. He has worked with a number of key artists, with dancers, fine artists, writers, musicians and silent films: Katharina Weinhuber, Renate Kretschmer and Jörg Schwarzenberger, Bodo Hell, Elfriede Gerstl, Wolfgang Kühn, Martin Siewert, Wolfgang Fuchs, Renald Deppe, Andreas Schreiber, Christoph Cech, Franz Hautzinger, Thomas Berghammer, Hannes Löschel, Andrew Sharpley, Julio Fujak, Noel Akchote, and Attila Dora, Daniel Matej, Judith Unterpertinger…
