The Quartet

Quadro Nuevo:
Mulo Francel (saxophones, clarinets)
Robert Wolf (Guitar, bouzouki)
Andreas Hinterseher (accordion, vibrandoneon, xylophone)
D. D. Lowka (double bass, percussion)

Tango, valse musette, arabesque, flamenco, lovingly dusted off film music and an Italy almost lost in time - since 1996 Quadro Nuevo has appeared in over 1500 concerts all over Europe.
The four musicians’ venues are as diverse as the roots of their music: The nostalgic-acoustic ensemble not only appear in concert halls and at festivals. The fervent virtuosi also travel around the Southern Mediterranean as street musicians enticing their audience to dance as a nightly tango band.

Each of Quadro Nuevo’s CDs so far has received the German Jazz Award and climbed into the Top Ten of the Jazz and World Music Charts and the Top 50 album charts. In the summer of 2005, the quartet released its DVD - Quadro Nuevo LIVE - and received the European Phono Award Impala in Paris.

The latest Quadro Nuevo CD was released in October 2006
tango bitter sweet:
Magnetic melodies from Europe – wild temperament driven between easterly and westerly winds, between consumptive yearning and joyful fulfilment – between bitter and sweet.
This is the world of the tango, as played by Quadro Nuevo.

The instrumental quartet has long since established its own form of poetical sound, beyond the genre pigeon holes.
Starting off with European tango with a euphoric note, Quadro Nuevo enriches this musical tradition with elements from flamenco, Balkan swing, daring improvisations and an incomparable Mediterranean sense of ease

On their latest album tango bitter sweet euphoric classics like “Petite Fleur“, ”Tango Jalousie“ or the sabre dance blossom in fresh, opalescent colours. Almost forgotten melodies once again touch the senses, make butterflies dance on the skin and instil wanderlust in the heart.
These mix with electrifying self-compositions, recounting tales from the vagabond life of the four journeymen.

The unmistakable sound of Quadro Nuevo resounds on this CD too:
Sensual as the summer nights on the Mediterranean, compelling as passion, bitter-sweet as the pain of love.

Even the 1970s hits like Dalida’s “Paroles, Paroles“ or ”L’été indien“ from Joe Dassin are filled with so much personal flair that one hardly wants to let them go.

The secret is devotion. Seldom has one experienced that music is performed with so much excitement, verve, almost tender love of the instrument and empathy with foreign cultures.


History:
Quadro Nuevo formed in 1996. Four young men met for the first time on some grey January day of that year on a car park near Salzburg.
They were - the guitarist Robert Wolf, who until that time had been touring with the flamenco star Paco de Lucia - saxophonist Mulo Francel, who appeared in jazz clubs and worked with large orchestras – D.D. Lowka , as a bassist he had formed the basis for various latino combos – and Andreas Hinterseher who cultivated the folk accordion tradition of the Parisian valse musette.
The four hardly knew each other previously and had been commissioned to produce film music for ORF [Austrian broadcasting and television station]. The film was never broadcast, but one thing was clear on that day:
A new quartet with an unmistakable sound had been born. From then on only one thing mattered – Quadro Nuevo, the love of nostalgic-acoustic music and travelling together evening for evening, from stage to stage. A dream became true, the ardour of joy is to be heard in every note..

The quartet have so far played at numerous renowned festivals, such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, the ’Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen’, the ’Rheingau Musikfestival’, the ’Meraner Musikwochen’, ’Saalfelden Jazztage’ and the Quebec Festival.

In 2005, Quadro Nuevo performed concert tours in Singapore, Korea, Canada, Australia, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Turkey and in the Baltic countries.