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Olympique

Freilassing, 2013

It crunches underneath their feet when Fabian, Leo and Nino wander through the burnt down disco. The three boys of Olympique have their rehearsal room upstairs of this no-man’s-land in a sedate boundary town of Salzburg. They tell us how their music has evolved from the raw and dirty-sounding days in a tiny studio in Vienna to the sentimental and full-sounding Indierock ballads that they write here in this more open space. It feels like Olympique enriches their songs with the ambiance of this grander environment, that is coated with a melancholic patina and transforms it in such a breathtaking anthem as “Let Us Fade Away”.

Camera
Sarah Brugner
Simon Brugner
Michael Luger
Sound Recording
Sarah Brugner
Michael Luger
Sound Mix
David Ruhmer
Post production
Simon Brugner
Michael Luger
Thanks to
Red Bull Music
Artist
Olympique

Freilassing

Freilassing is a small town close to Salzburg, yet it’s already across the border to Germany. Best-known as a border town and for its major train station Freilassing offers little to visitors except a charming pedestrianised shopping street, a railway museum and a town museum. And it wouldn’t be Bavaria if there weren’t numerous traditional taverns serving tasty dishes and beer from local breweries.