SIGRID HORN
Songwriter. Singer. Musician.
Sigrid Horn is a musician, composer, singer, performer, poet and activist. Through the freedom to play with the words of her mother tongue and their sounds, she has created a body of work that touches people in a unique way. Both as a singer and a poet, her content is socially critical and feminist. She has received several awards, including first place in the FM4 protest song contest 2019 for the song "baun" and the award "The New Austrian Sound of Music" (NASOM) 2020/21. Her new album will be released in 2023, where she wants to draw more attention to the mental health of mothers. She will be accompanied by the specially founded string quartet "Das Nest". The arrangements to Sigrid's songs span from chamber music, to hip-hop, jazz and film music.
Sigrid Horn / © Heribert Corn
“For a long time, dialect had a dusty, regionalist image. It’s important to me to break with that. Dialect can be poetic, subversive, provocative, feminist and international.”
Sigrid Horn's third album is a gloomy-loving dialect song cycle with string quartet. The oppressive geopolitical situation in combination with isolation, withdrawal to the private sphere due to the birth of her child are the biotope in which these songs have grown. Above all, there is hope and surviving.
"When Sigrid Horn plays the piano, she caresses or thunders, her ukulele in turn sometimes sounds spindly, then again frenetic but never cute." (Robert Rotifer)
For the first time she is accompanied by the unusual string quartet "das Nest": Stefanie Kropfreiter, Marlene Herbst (violas), Ulla Obereigner (violin) and Anna Aigner (cello) form the cosy nest into which Sigrid Horn can retreat and show herself more vulnerable than ever before. The two violas provide a special, warm and rich sound that leaves enough space for Sigrid's voice and lyrics.
The arrangements come from Felipe Scolfaro Crema. He carefully spins Sigrid's musical ideas further and thus opens up new worlds of sound. Chamber music that spans the spectrum from hip-hop to film music.
Sigrid Horn und das Nest / © Alex Gotter
“My songs are radically vulnerable. I want to break taboos and address people who otherwise feel invisible. I want to make feelings visible that are otherwise swept under the carpet.”
Sigrid Horn / © Pamela Rußmann
