Ernst Molden & New Vienna Concert Schrammeln featuring Tini Kainrath

Ernst Molden & Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln feat. Tini Kainrath "Mei Liab"

The love song, affectionately yet irreverently referred to as "Hadern" (or scraps) in Viennese, is a cornerstone of the work of songwriter and poet Ernst Molden. Since he attended Nick Cave's class at the School of Poetry in the 1990s, where Cave explained to his students under the title "The Lovesong and How to Write One" that there is no nobler art than writing a love song, Molden has been influenced by this sentiment. He told Ö1: “Actually, I have been writing songs for decades to be seen as cool by the same woman.”

The album project "Mei Liab" is now entirely and exclusively dedicated to the love song, in a unique and special collaboration: Together with the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln (comprising violinists Peter Uhler and Nikolai Tunkowitsch, the grandmaster of the Viennese button accordion, Marie-Theres Stickler, and the contraguitarist and bandleader Peter Havlicek), Ernst Molden has gentle modernizers of classical Viennese folk music and excellent arrangers by his side.

The collaboration began after the death of Willi Resetarits, when Ernst Molden performed with the Schrammeln in place of the deceased singer. This was followed by several concerts in Vienna and the federal states, culminating in a joint performance as part of André Heller's Vienna evening at the Elbphilharmonie in March 2024. The "Mei Liab" cycle brings together eight newly written love songs by Molden with four older, partly iconic pieces (e.g., Es Lem).

Following the significant loss of Walther Soyka in the spring of 2025, Marie-Theres Stickler (known among other things from Alma) can now be heard on the accordion.

Line-up: Ernst Molden: Vocals, guitar; Tini Kainrath: Vocals; Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln: Peter Uhler, Nikolai Tunkowitsch: Violin; Marie-Theres Stickler: Chromatic button accordion; Peter Havlicek: Contraguitar.