Robert Rotifer

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Robert Rotifer at the program presentation for Popfest 2011

Robert Rotifer (* 1969 in Vienna ; née Robert Lacina ) is an Austrian musician, music journalist and radio presenter.

Life

Growing up in Vienna as the son of the former Austrian Finance Minister Ferdinand Lacina ( SPÖ ), he began his musical career in the 1980s as a singer and guitarist in several Viennese Britpop bands. This was followed by the founding of the mod band Electric Eels , after whose breakup he released his first recording as Rotifer ( The Fun Is Over Now with the participation of the Sofa Surfers ) in 1996 . He has also worked as a music journalist.

After moving to England in 1997, first to London , then to Canterbury , he concentrated on his journalistic activities for several years until he recorded the album A Different Cup of Fish in 2001, which was followed by five more albums in the following years. The video for The Frankfurt Kitchen from the album Coach Number 12 of 11 (2008), a combination of real film and paintings by Lelo Brossmann ( Heinz from Vienna ) animated Rotifer, was presented in 2010 in the New York Museum of Modern Art and is there in the collection been recorded.

The album, The Hosting Couple (2011), was created in collaboration with Darren Hayman ( Hefner ) on bass and Ian Button ( Dot Allison , Death in Vegas ) on drums. The pieces were developed in the summer of 2010 in Wreckless Eric's house and recording studio in France. It took until autumn 2011 until the release on the label AED, newly founded by Edwyn Collins . In the meantime he was involved in the music and art project "Vostok 5" with Haymann and musicians friends of the London bands Tigercats , Allo Darlin ' and Fever Dream , with a compilation album and in September 2011 a joint exhibition in the Outside World Gallery in London.

In 2016 Rotifer released its most personal album to date under the title Not Your Door , as the Vienna weekly newspaper Falter wrote . Rotifer is reminiscent of his grandmother, resistance fighter and communist Irma Schwager (1920–2015).

In 2017, the first German-language album Über uns followed , published by BaderMoldenRecordings.

Since the founding years of the Austrian radio station FM4 , he has worked there as an editor and presenter and moderates the program "Heartbeat" every 14 days on Monday evening. As a music journalist, he writes for print media such as the Berliner Zeitung , the Falter and profil .

From 2010 to 2012 Rotifer curated the Popfest on Karlsplatz in Vienna.

Discography

The Electric Eels :

  • Need to Know (EP)
  • Instant (Album, Brefkas Ready / Warner)

Robert Rotifer :

  • 1996 - The Fun Is Now Over (double 7 "single, Klein Records)
  • 2001 - A Different Cup of Fish (Album, Survival of Defeatist)
  • 2016 - Not Your Door (Album, Gare du Nord Records)
  • 2017 - About Us (Album, Bader Molden Recordings (Rough Trade))

Rotifer :

  • 2002 - The Boy's a Fool (7 "single, Survival of Defeatist)
  • 2004 - Shambles Grove (Album, Survival of Defeatist)
  • 2006 - Before the Water Wars (album, Living Room Records)
  • 2008 - Coach Number 12 of 11 (Album, Living Room Records)
  • 2009 - The Children on the Hill (Album, monkey.)
  • 2011 - Canvey Island / The Frankfurt Kitchen (Electric Version) (vinyl single, AED)
  • 2011 - The Cosmonaut Who Never Flew and Star City on VOSTOK 5 (compilation album)
  • 2011 - The Hosting Couple (Album, AED)
  • 2013 - The Cavalry Never Showed Up (Album, Living Room Records)
  • 2017 - About us (BaderMoldenRecordings)

Web links

Commons : Robert Rotifer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ARGEkultur Salzburg : Robert Rotifer & Band , 2010
  2. ↑ Shock & Awe Video Productions / YouTube : Video: Rotifer - The Frankfurt Kitchen
  3. ^ Museum of Modern Art : counter space: The Frankfurt Kitchen
  4. ↑ VOSTOK 5
  5. ↑ Gerhard Stöger: "Pop is a victim of its own success" , in: Falter No. 28, July 13, 2016, p. 26 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Rotifer, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lacina, Robert (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, music journalist and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna