Laura & the comrats, the band of Viennese singer songwriter Laura Rafetseder make music along the lines of folk/pop/acoustic.it´s the contradiction of sadness and happyness in popmusic - the great songs touch a nerve, make you happy and sad...
Biografie	
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 the comrats are in the process of reformation - bassist tino and drummer marc are back on board and we have a new guitarist, michael huber. Laura & the comrats debut sc" creating memories"  came out in April 2010. Solo debut " the minor key club" was released in fall 2012. New solo album "Swimmers in the Arctic Sea" is to be released on october 21 / 2016.

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