„Once upon a time a little songstress fell in love with music listening to her songwriter dad..s piano (he used to put music to anglo-american poets.. poems), her mum singing lullabies and generally being raised on her parents records (dylan, stones, joni mitchell,...). At 8 an old tape of a radio show called „the roaring 60s“ made a lasting impression – she decided to become a revolutionary (the tape started with „hippies, beat, riots, revolution,...“ and sounded very exciting). She also went on to inhale pop music history, became a beatles freak at 13, wearing only grey leggings (it was the early 90s, you know), reading emily bronte and climbing trees. At 14 though she hijacked her dad..s guitar, learned how to play and started writing songs (well... she didnt write her own lyrics at first but exploited her dad..s poetry books and put new musical clothes to w.h. auden, t.s. eliot and w.b. yeats). The lyrics started to flow at 18, when she moved to vienna and took to the open mic scene there. With her band the comrats she recorded the ep make me whole again in 2006. Sadly guitarists critical jim and esch decided to focus on other projects in spring 2007, which meant an end to the comrats as we know them, but not the end to laura & the comrats as a bandproject. at the moment laura is working on a solo recording project to be released in autumn 2008. keep watching this space for news!...“So much for that. As for my songs, they are an attempt to see through the mess that i make out of my life sometimes (and thus embrace it). i love good metaphors and images, there..s nothing better... a constant theme are dialectics and contradictions – good and bad, dream and reality, up and down, bitter and sweet.... always been fascinated by the contradiction of sadness and happyness in popmusic - cos the great songs touch a nerve, make you happy and sad, usually both at the same time. apart from that, i..m a socialist and as such, i..m a member of the committee for a workers.. international. have a look if we have members in your country and get active! we need a socialist world to get rid of war, racism, unemployment, women..s oppression and the like... if you want to contact me: [email protected] And now in German:
Laura Rafetseder hat sich in die Popgeschichte verliebt und verpackt das Inhalierte mittels Gitarre und Stimme in Songform. Inhaltlich geht es um die Geschichten des Kommens und Gehens, des Abschieds und des Wiederfindens. Wichtig sind dabei die Widersprüche: Die Schwäche in der Stärke, das Böse im Guten, die Melancholie in der Freude und die Freude an der Melancholie. Ihre Songs beklettern Bäume, lernen fliegen und tauchen in die Tiefe des Ozeans. Laura Rafetseder versucht an dem Punkt eine Stimme zu finden, an dem das Sprechen scheitert: Ein großer Song entsteht oft aus einem nicht fest zu machenden Punkt, der schmerzt. Alles Weitere folgt – und entfaltet sich in der Musik.
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