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 Alexandr Vatagin was born in Jalta,Ukraine in 1982 and moved to Austria in 1991.
He started to learn playing instruments only at a late age, starting to play bass at the age of 23, starting to play cello & electronics at the age of 25, he learned all of those instruments as an autodidact.
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, milhaven 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, ahordfelder), 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, mikroton, 12rec, zymogen, moozak and many more.
Press:
de:bug(de):
Vor kurzem erst veröffentlichte Alexandr Vatagin als Bassist und Cellist mit der Wiener Band Tupolev ein tolles Album, jetzt kommt sein zweites Soloalbum. Digital bearbeitete Fieldrecordings treffen auf Bass, Cello und Vibraphon, abstrakte Klänge mischen sich mit melodischen Elementen, konkreten Instrumental- und Störgeräuschen. Kurz und knapp sind die einzelnen Tracks, die CD insgesamt nicht mal zwanzig Minuten lang, unglaublich stimmig und auf den Punkt die Musik. Aus den Ideen hätte man auch locker siebzig Minuten Material herausholen können. Hat man aber nicht. Klasse.
freistil(at):
Eine eindrucksvolle, 18-minütige Miniatur legt der Valeot-Mitbegründer vor. Ambient-mäßige Electronics, vermischt mit klassischem Instrumentarium und stimmigen Field Recordings, surren so leichtfüßig wie stilvoll vor sich hin, entwickeln sich scheinbar mühelos von der Skizze zur vollendeten Fläche. Sensible Oberflächenbehandlung zeichnet dieses Albumin einer Weise aus, wie es schon bei anderen Releases auf Valeot(Tupolev, Port-Royal) und Umgebung (Dirac!) zum signifikanten Merkmal gehörte. Man braucht zur Prognose kein Prophet zu sein, dass hier eine jugendliche Elektronikzunft heranwächst, von der in abhörbarer Zukunft einiges zu erwarten, ja mit der fix zu rechnen sein wird.
Vital Weekly(nl):
The first work by Alexandr Vatagin, called 'Valeot' was reviewed back in Vital Weekly 519. Since then we also heard his cello as part of the band Tupolev (Vital Weekly 626). The three years that have passed since saw his solo work progressing. Back then it was a kind of singer song writer material to the abstract glitch material of 'Shards'. Here he uses electronics, bass, cello, vibraphone and field recordings on a rather short CD, eighteen minutes only, with seven relatively short pieces, which shows that Vatagin listened closely the work of Fennesz and everything that came after that. Electronics, glitches and real instruments mingle quite nicely, partly creating flowing ambient textures and sometimes going into the noise end. The material works best if the real instruments get a somewhat bigger role, such as in the somewhat abrupt ending piece 'Sousier'. In the limitation the master is shown. In a world with so many long CDs with repeated ideas for too long, this is a small treasure. Not highly original, but damn fine executed.
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