col legno

col legno | new colors of music

The color palette of musical styles has never been as widespread as it is today. The spectrum ranges from classical music, jazz, world music, pop, rock and electronic music in all its varieties, but at the same time this is not necessarily the case when it comes to crossing styles. More over these areas are often hermetically sealed from each other due to socially conditioned borders. col legno is a label that impressively demonstrates how fruitful this dialogue between the genres can be. Just as colorful as the label’s simple, eye-catching album covers, the acoustic content of the releases contain classics from the 19th Century as well as contemporary “classical music” with multifaceted music elements. The Vienna-based label focuses on individuals who indulge just as much in their compositional work as in their interpretational creativity, like Wolfgang Mitterer, Franui or Franz Koglmann.