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), Bernhard Fleischmann, Danny Grody (the drift, tarentel), Alexander Schubert(sinebag, ahornfelder), 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, Ukraine, Latvia, Greece 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.
George Bagdasarov was born in Kazahstan in Armenian family. Started to study Cybernetics at Technical University, continued with Composition at Music Academy in Moscow and finally graduated Film School in St. Petersburg. Started music carrier as guitarist in psychedelic punk band, developed through conceptual techno to free improvisation based on the stuff collected on flea markets all around the world. Played and recorded in different collaboration with jazz, noise, electronic, etc musician Richard Deutsch, Jerome Noetinger, Yoshio Mashida, LEs Halmes, Dill, Yutaka Makino, DJ Sniff, Nikolay Rubanov, Fitz Ellarald etc...
