Bands  October 30, 1996

Band: The Smiling Buddhas - 1996 - now

1996 - now

The Smiling Buddhas

The Smiling Buddhas float easily between Ambient, Illbient and morphed Techno structures. They create aural travelogues from their extensive travels to create a special world of music. After the spiritual insight into the hidden kingdom of Lo in Mustang, Nepal ("Lo", base 2008) the Buddhas traveled and hiked through the Atacama desert in Chile and Peru ("Atacama", base 2012). "The Alps" (base, 2013) is a retrospective view to their days of child- and boyhood in the Austrian Alps. "Latium" (base 2014) is their latest aural roadmovie telling bizarre stories from the beautiful region around Rome. 2015 the Buddhas did party all night long in big cities like Amsterdam, Rome or Paris ("All-Nighter", base) and invited you to cruise with them through Hong Kong ("Homekong", base). In 2016, they celebrated the miracles of "Alpine Rose" (Alpine Rec.) aka Almrausch.

In 2017, The Smiling Buddhas teamed up for "Cote" (base) with the great female singer Philomena from Vienna and deep voice Le Renard who commutes between southern France and Linz. "Upwelling" was released on several Trance Music Compilations and hit the floor hard on several raves worldwide! At the end of 2020 TSB published the acoustic travel report "Acoustic Postcards". They take us to places we all love and like to use for a longer stay. Travel with us and enjoy the safe, virus-free long-distance travel with us.

"Hun Fa-di" (synths, samples, electronics) and John Fitzpatrick (Sound, Electronics, Guitar) are aural storytellers. "We are poets who open up a space for lucid daydreams through sound. We love to travel openminded and when we get hit hard by our demon wanderlust we start telling epic stories not using words." Live they create hudge sonic sculptures with slow and reduced visuals with videos from their travels. Sometimes of sheer beauty, sometimes disturbing but seldom fearful.

The Smiling Buddhas smile when they wisper in your ear: "Throw the tourist out of your luggage, start traveling."

The Smiling Buddhas – Discographie - Albums:

• "Never Ever Forever" - base 2023 CDR/Digital/Tape
• "Non-Places" - base 2022 CDR/Digital/Tape
• "Far Off" - base 2021 CDR/Digital
• "Acoustic Postcards" - base 2020 CDR/Digital
• "Cote" - base 2017 CDR/Digital
• "Alpine Rose" - Alpine Rec. 2016 Digital
• "Homekong" - base 2015 CD/Digital
• "All-Nighter" - base 2015 CD/Digital
• "Latium" - base 2014 CD/Digital
• "The Alps" - base 2013 CD/Digital
• "Atacama" - base 2012 CD/Digital
• "Lo" - base 2008 CD/Digital

Compilations:

• V.A. "Smooth Chill Out & Lounge Sounds" - Club Femm 2023 Digital
• V.A. "Club Work Session (03)" - Feiyr 2023 Digital
• V.A. "Techno Devotion, Vol 1" - Infractive Digital 2022 Digital
• V.A. "The Great Waking Compilation - Part 3" - Different Is Different Records 2020 Digital
• V.A. "Best Of 2019" - Different Is Different Records 2019 Digital
• V.A. "DEMF Sampler 2019" - Different Is Different Records 2019 Digital
• V.A. "Dirty Budapest 2018, Vol. 1" - Dirty Budapest 2018 Digital
• V.A. "Cytology, Vol. 9" - Lo4299 2017 Digital
• V.A. "Next Gen Techno Sound, Vol. 1(Ultimate)" - State Of Techno Recordings 2017 Digital
• V.A. Dance to Trance" - Trance Gold Records 2017 Digital
• V.A. "Trance Radio Charts 2017" - Trance Gold Records 2017 Digital
• V.A. "Non Plus Ultra Techno, Vol. 2" - Technosforza 2017 Digital
• V.A. >"Techno Invasion - Compilation Invasion 2016 Digital
• V.A. "Slow Down Ambient Relaxation, Vol. 3" - Trance Gold Records 2016 Digital
• V.A. "Ambient for Relaxation & Meditation, Vol. 3" - Feiyr 2016 Digital
• V.A. "Ambient for Relaxation & Meditation, Vol. 2" - Feiyr 2016 Digital
• V.A. "Techno ADE 2015" - Lo429Pusher Music9 2015 Digital
• V.A. "Fast & Loud: In Love with Schranz, Vol. 2" - Schrei & Tanz Music Media 2015 Digital
• V.A. "Trick & Electronic the Sound of Us" - Electro Babes 2015 Digital
• V.A. "Elec Tronica" - Everlasting Sensation 2015 Digital
• V.A. "Luftschloß" - Sa Trincha Recordings 2014 Digital
• V.A. "Golf Mental Focus Trainer" - Sports Audio Tools 2014 Digital
• V.A. "Picknick mit Hermann!" - Rhiz 1997 CD, sold out
• V.A. "3rd base" - base 1997 CD, sold out
• "From HongKong" - 1996 CD, sold out

For more information:
Homepage The Smiling Buddhas
The Smiling Buddhas at Bandcamp
The Smiling Buddhas at Twitter
The Smiling Buddhas at Facebook
The Smiling Buddhas at SR-Archiv

The Smiling Buddhas "Dal Lazio A Roma / From Latium To Rome" from Wolfgang Dorninger on Vimeo.

The Smiling Buddas - Nightless Night live at CC22 from Wolfgang Dorninger on Vimeo.