Alexandr Vatagin was born in Jalta, Ukraine in 1982 and moved to Austria in 1991. He began teaching himself to play musical instruments in his twenties, starting with bass at the age of 23, and cello & electronics at the age of 25.
At the moment he lives as a musician and producer in vienna, plays in four bands: port-royal, tupolev, slon & werner kitzmüller trio. until now he also released two critically acclaimed solo albums.
Alexandr Vatagin is always on the border of many different musical styles – as a musician and as a producer. from experimental electronic music to singer/songwriter music, from improvised music to rock, from jazz to dancemusic.
Since 2008 he runs the label valeot records, which released albums by port-royal, tupolev, dirac, slon and many others.
In 2009, the biggest austrian music magazine „thegap“ chose him as one of the 100 most promising young austrian artists.
He colloborated with Martin Siewert (trapist, heaven and), Stefan Nemeth (radian, lokai), Danny Grody (the drift, tarentel), Alexander Schubert(sinebag), Peter Kutin(dirac), Nicolas Bernier and many others.
Alexandr played concerts in Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium, Poland, Croatia, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Serbia, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia and in the UK.
His solo works and works he was involved in were released on labels like valeot, n5md, 12rec, zymogen, mirakelmusik, moozak and many more. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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