Things Are Just Too Good To Last

"Art must be a matter of life and death – otherwise it's not art" - Louie Austen

Louie Austen is an Austrian Bar/Jazz singer, he was born in 1946 and after immigrating to South Africa and Australia he started to tour the stages of NYC, Pittsburgh and Las Vegas. He then returned to Vienna. He has played minor parts in both European and American movies - the most notable being in Stefan Ruzowitzky's "The Counterfeiters". He still manages to tour and work on his upcoming EP even though he has a singing part in a new adaptation of Nestroy's play "Höllenangst" at the Viennese Burgtheater.

When he was 53 Austen headed towards the unusually idiosyncratic mix of tropical crooning and electronic lozenges. He released Consequences in '99 and he was more curious than anything, so he decided to continue with the style and has since released Only Tonight '01 and Easy Love '03. His latest LP Iguana came out in '06 on Klein Records.


In 2007 Louie Austen created a subdivision of Klein Records; LA Music. He plans to release another LP in 2009; but right now he is releasing the Too Good To Last EP - it is due out late July and has 6 amazing tracks on it, with Austen singing so slowly on the title track it is almost rap, but this - and also the other 5 tracks - bring modern music generations back to the Frank Sinatra era, and show us how different and enlightening music can be. The EP was produced with Vredeber Albrecht (and to some degree - Tobias "Jack Tennis" Schwermann). You can stream the whole EP right here, right now.

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