Due to their own words “emerging from the ultra-civilized Austrian countryside, socialized by lederhosen clad brass bands and classical music, the zero times Grammy-nominated Namby Pamby Boy found their only chance to escape from all that in a garage, where they studied and listened to the evil sounds of hip hop, rock and jazz.” Both the band name and the story above are of course just part of the image: the trio of three very ambitious, talented young Austrian musicians presents a clever music interwoven with a lot of irony. Their eclectic compositions speak through the voice of a fictional character that seems to be all too real: the typical mummy's darling, the ‘Namby Pamby Boy’. An anti-hero whose utter irrelevance and constant descent into banality serves as a life - an existence where being called by your actual name, a ‘thank you’ or a smile earned from the secretary are the emotional highlights of the month.

Fabian Rucker, born in 1985, studied classical and jazz saxophone with Harry Sokal and Allan Praskin amongst others. He is one of the young European musicians who are firmly rooted in the jazz tradition yet seamlessly move through all the worlds of contemporary art, from jazz to hip-hop, from pop to performance art. Called “one of the most significant young players in the Austrian Jazz scene,” the reed player and multi-instrumentalist received, among other prizes, a New York Scholarship of the Hans-Koller-Award. This also was the ignition of his deep love to NYC and its music scene. Together with two friends of his age, Phil Nykrin on keyboards and Andreas Lettner on drums they founded the trio in 2010 and released Lunchbreak in 2011. Nykrin, also a Hans Koller Prize winner, spent some time in New York, where he founded his own group as well. Lettner plays drums with various Austrian groups of different kinds of musical genres, and is also active as music producer. And yet none of them are even thirty years old...