Maja Osojnik Band
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Past Events
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Musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik performs with Natascha Gangl
at the Blessed Be the Rage of Your Flesh
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Live concert performances by electronic musicians and vocalists Maja Osojnik and Irena Tomažin
at the Heroines of Sound Festival
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Wendy Pferd Tod Mexiko, a radio play with a live performance by Rdeča Raketa, featuring Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik,
at the Słuchowisk Festival
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Presentation of the newly established label MAMKA and Wendy Pferd Tod Mexiko, a neon-western-audio-diverse-sound comic by Rdeča Raketa, featuring Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik,
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Wendy Pferd Tod Mexiko, a soundcomic with live performance by Rdeča Raketa, featuring Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik,
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Wendy Pferd Tod Mexiko, a radio play with a live performance by Rdeča Raketa, featuring Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik,
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Let Them Grow, a concert by ZSAMM (Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik and Austrian drummer Patrick Wurzwallner),
at the Insomnia Festival
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Let Them Grow, a concert by ZSAMM (Slovenian electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik and Austrian drummer Patrick Wurzwallner), as announced by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
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A solo concert by electronic musician and vocalist Maja Osojnik, as announced by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia London,
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A concert by Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) and Ingrid Schmoliner at the Interpenetration Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A concert by Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) at the Interpenetrations Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Concerts featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) at Wien Modern, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A musical performance featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) at the Phonofemme Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A concert also featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) and Kaja Draksler at the 36th International Jazz Festival Saalfelden, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A concert by Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
at the Popfest Wien
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A concert by Broken.Heart.Colletor featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A screening of Dancing with Maria, directed by Ivan Gergolet and co-produced by Staragara, a workshop on rhythm also with Bratko Bibič (see also Bratko Bibič & The Madleys) and Miha Zadnikar, Traversing the Balkans, a work-show also with Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), and Miha Zadnikar as member of the Moral Approach Award jury at the MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival
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A concert by Jazzwerkstatt and Rdeča Raketa featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) in the framework of Wiener Festwochen: Into the City, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Die Strottern & Ensemble MIKADO with Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) at the Zoa Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) with Brass Orchestra St. Johann in Tirol and Broken Heart Collector at MuKu, Artefacts Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Summer Garden Photograph, an audio-visual project by Dirt Nonet also featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), Festival’s chamber music debuts featuring also Jože Kotar (clarinet), at the festival IŠ ARTI
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A concert by Low Frequency Orchestra, featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), at VELAK Gala, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A concert by Broken.Heart.Collector, featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), at the Elevate Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), Tomaž Grom (TILT, Sploh Institute), Samo Kutin (Salamandra Salamandra), Irena Tomažin (Emanat Institute), and other Slovene musicians at the festival Ljubljana Ljubljena (Beloved)
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Summer Garden Photograph, an audio-visual project by Dirt Nonet also featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), at the festival Glatt & Verkehrt Herbstzeitlos, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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A concert by It's Everyone Else and Broken.Heart.Collector, featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), at Rock Is Hell Fest
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A concert by Rdeča Raketa (Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) and Matija Schellander) at the 7th Klangfestival
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A concert by Rdeča Raketa (Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) and Matija Schellander) at Hotel Pupik Festival
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Concerts by Broken.Heart.Collector with Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band) and Žoambo Žoet Workestrao at the Ring Ring Festival
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The Slovene national stand by SIGIC, Slovene Music Information Centre and a concert by Plenum + Katharina Ernst also featuring Maja Osojnik (Maja Osojnik Band), supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
at the Classical:NEXT
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Traversing Balkan, music by Rdeča raketa (Maja Osojnik Band), at the Festival Crossing Europe, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Maja Osojnik as one of the participating performers at Salon Klimbim in the framework of Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom
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Maja Osojnik participating in the project Nights at the Bunker, which combines performance with experimental music,
at the Steirischer Herbst
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W.i.l.d. Installation & Konzert by Watschen Institut (Maja Osojnik Band)
at the Liquid Music Festival
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Rdeča raketa, a concert by Maja Osojnik and Matija Schellander with lyrics by Anja Golob, at Sommerloch Festival, supported by the Slovenian Culture and Information Centre, Vienna (SKICA), Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Vienna,
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Opening concert by Broken.heart.collector (with Maja Osojnik) at art2go open studios, organised by Kulturnetz-Hernals
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The band is not active anymore. However, Maja Osojnik is still active, mostly working in Vienna but garnering international acclaim.
Archival article
Although the material is primarily coming from folklore motives of Slovenia or the heritage of its 19th- and 20th-century poets (Srečko Kosovel, Simon Gregorčič, Fran Milčinski, etc), with most of the songs sung in Slovenian, the band is actually Vienna-based and is, furthermore, composed mostly of Austrian musicians. Philipp Jagschitz on piano and accordion, Bernd Satzinger on contrabass, Michael Bruckner on guitar, and Mathias Koch on percussion accompany the band leader, singer, composer, and recorder player Maja Osojnik.
Gigs
The band has had a number of concerts in Europe and abroad, performing their dramaturgically elaborate acts at Balkan Fever Festival Vienna, Club Porgy & Bess, Donauinselfest Vienna, Falterfest, Jazz over Villach, Jazzfestival Graz, Jazz Herbst Krems, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Balkan Fever Festival London, and at Slovene festivals such as Carniola Festival, Lent Festival, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, Druga Godba Festival as well as many other festivals and venues.
- Maja Osojnik Band performing at Jazzfestival Saalfelden in 2011.
Maja Osojnik and her other projects
It would be hard to categorise Maja Osojnik as anything other than exceptional. Her exceptionalness has been well recognised and she has received a number of scholarships (from Luxembourg, the USA and also from the Slovene Ministry of Culture and the Austrian Ministry of Culture) and a really numerous array of competition wins or prizes. One of the latest recognitions of her creative talents was the MiA Award, given to women migrants with particular accomplishments in Austria, where Maja has more or less permanently lived since she began her studies there in the mid-1990s.
The other bands which she has co-founded or with whom she has recorded and performed are the electronic drone project Rdeča Raketa (a duo with Matija Schellander, a member of Metalycee and some other bands); the historic music delving and performing Ensemble MIKADO; the contemporary improvised and composed music ensemble Low Frequency Orchestra; the experimentally outgoing Subshrubs and FruFru; the industrial jazzrock Broken.Heart.Collector; and also Aus dem Mund, Balkon, Bergwind, Maybe Airlines, Edward and the innocent Bystanders, and some others. She has also appeared as a guest musician in many other collectives and has performed all over Europe (Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Italy, Croatia) and in the USA.
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