„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 others). 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. In 2008 the comrats got back together - bassist tino and drummer marc are back on board and we have a new guitarist, michael huber. They used 2009 to work on their new cd "creating memories", being released in march 2010. 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 catchy tunes as well as 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: laura.rafetseder@gmail.com
New album "creating memories" out in april 2010!
