Voodoo Jürgens & Die Ansa Panier - The Krampus Wreath

"Gschnas" is the fourth album by Voodoo Jürgens. A new phase Voodoo Jürgens album. Three years after the masterpiece "Wie die Nocht noch jung wor," he returns as a reluctant pop star. Last year, he won the Austrian Film Award for Best Actor for his leading role in Adrian Goiginger's box office hit "Rickerl." His previous albums garnered numerous Amadeus Awards, the Austro-Grammys, and all his tours throughout the German-speaking world are regularly sold out. Now it was time for a reassessment. The biotope of the Beisl (a traditional Austrian pub) was yesterday. Especially since the numerous Voodoo epigones have been so eager to capitalize on that for years. Now it’s about the wide world waiting out there. And the little one inside: the one in your own soul.

In terms of lyrics and sound, "Gschnas" is about personal autonomy, the rebirth of inspiration, and breaking free from the typically Austrian narrowness that weighs one down. In short: it’s about everything. With what energy he and his on-fire band ride this daring album, with what joy in playing and what self-confidence an artist thinks anew without giving up what he has already established, revitalizing himself in the process. It’s an exorcism of the open heart, so to speak, and we are there live!

Along with his best melodies, his truest lyrics, his most urgent performances, and a production by Wolfgang Lehman (aka Möstl) that smells of Magnum Opus for everyone involved. This is something. And not just that. An album born from doubt, for which in the end, carnival pastries rain down. An album as an event, in a time that has forgotten itself. "And everyone should benefit from it!" Voodoo shouts to us in perhaps the most successful song of his career, invoking a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or: Voodoo magic that works and works and works...!