RotFront
Albums
Emigrantski Raggamuffin
Label: Essay Recordings
Distribution in France: La Baleine
Release date: September 01, 2009
RotFront is more than just good music: it is a contribution to international relations. Just as Russians once learned German listening to the band Rammstein’s lyrics, Germans can now sing along with RotFront in Russian, Ukrainian and Hungarian. The collective, with its high-octane brew of musical references, has taken the baton from all the other collectives that have come out of Berlin to take the world by storm: Seeed with their mix of Reggae and HipHop, Culcha Candela with their mix of Latino and Pop…. Now RotFront has come flying out of the starting blocks, showing how Eastern European sounds (polka, klezmer) can be heated up with smouldering southern rhythms (ska, cumbia). Their lyrics are based on their own lives and experiences. RotFront has joined Essay Recordings, a melting pot of global pop sounds, with no holds barred. Rolling back boundaries is RotFront’s mission; in that sense, they are a political band. They may not talk the talk, but they certainly walk the walk: instead of singing about politics, they actually live the easy-going, harmonious interaction of nationalities, ethnicities, musical genres and cultures. And it works.
