Photo: David Beecroft
Biography en/de
Rudi Fischerlehner plays drums in various different musical projects that fall between improvised and experimental music, jazz and post-rock. He also composes and produces music for bands, film and performances.
Born in 1977 in Austria he was introduced to the drums in his
childhood and received lessons on drum kit and classical
percussion. As a teenager he starts to perform with bands in and
around Linz, then moves to Vienna, travels to Africa and China,
spends a few months in New York and now resides in Berlin.
His current projects include the drum solo project 15 8 SLUM,
Xenofox with Olaf Rupp, Der Dritte Stand with Matthias Müller
and Matthias Bauer, and Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov / Fischerlehner.
He also plays or has played with Gorilla Mask, Joke Lanz, Mia
Dyberg, Zsolt Sőrés, Julie Sassoon, Fiium Shaarrk, Tonia Reeh in
La Tourette, Tristan Honsinger, Matthias Schubert, Andreas
Willers, Frank Paul Schubert, Erste Stufe Haifisch and many
more.
Projects in which he features have been regularly invited to festivals and clubs internationally and featured on radio stations as Ö1, BBC Radio 3, SWR and Deutschlandfunk.
As a producer and composer for film soundtracks he contributed to movies by Ella Raidel, Johanna Kirsch and Katharina Lampert and was involved in the art, video or performance work of Alterazioni Video, Tarek Atoui (Berlin Biennale 8), Katrin Plavcak, Wilhelm Groener, Rainer Kohlberger and Haroon Mirza.
"He
makes music as if he would produce chance."
Kristof Schreuf, Junge Welt
"In
general, Fischerlehner’s music covers avant-garde, improv
and advanced post-rock, he’s able to improvise freely and to
use preconceived ideas. Projects like his duo Xenofox,
Willing Suspension of Disbelief, and Gorilla Mask prove that
he’s one of the most interesting drummers in the
German-speaking area at the moment."
Martin Schray, freejazzblog
"Fischerlehner
leaves no issue unattended as far as drumming is concerned,
either underlining what his comrades do with conscious
respectfulness or exploding into destructive bubbles of
counter-rhythms and thump-and-bang punkiness when the going
gets tough."
Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
"Really great kit playing: intricate and inventive without
being showy."
Chris Elcombe, BBC Radio 3
Selected Festival Appearances
Alarme Festival Berlin, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Jazzfestival
Saalfelden, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Elbjazz Hamburg, Mama Jazz
Vilnius, Transmediale Berlin, Berlin Biennale 8, Fusion Festival
Lärz, Akut Festival Mainz, Soundance Festival Berlin,
Freejazzfestival Saarbrücken, Rewire Den Hague, London
Jazzfestival, Klangfestival Gallneukirchen, Jazzwerkstatt Peitz,
Basics Festival Salzburg, Brechtfestival Augsburg, Tsuki
Jazzfestival Aarhus, Approximation Festival Düsseldorf, Imaxina
Sons Vigo, Vancouver Jazzfestival, Ottawa Jazzfestival, Edmonton
Jazzfestival, MIB Festival Bremen, Moozak Festival Wien, Jazzjuice
Aarhus, Jazzfestival Cheltenham, Lydfestival Aarhus, Contemporanea
Udine, Moving Silence Athens, Jazz and More Sibiu, Belluard
Bollwerk Fribourg, F-ire London, Jazzwerk Greiz, and many more.