Grey City Life (Vinyl/LP | sold out)

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Punkriot Wieder ein Genuss für die Ohren! Sehr ans Herz zu legen! Musikgenuss pur! Da sage mal einer aus OWL käme nur Wurst und Schinken😉❤️😊 Favorite track: Kaltes Land.

schwarzartmatters I am a fan of post-punk music but over the past couple of years there have appeared lots of bands within that genre and, unfortunately, lots do sound much a like and a little uninspired (in my opinion). To me, ROSI doesn't belong onto that list though! I really love their sound and I highly recommend seeing them live, too! Favorite track: Verloren.

Maltasar Timeless dark wave inspired music! Give ROSI your money & get some spins that will stuck in your head. Sad catching melodies but danceable. Try the remixes on the "Cold Transmission edition and "HOPE the 2nd album! Favorite track: Tanzen.

Propuesta Cultural ROSI's casual sound will invade your senses as the "Grey City Life" playback progresses. A brutally purposeful album.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Feel The Same (New Single 2021), ROSI - GREY CITY LIFE (Cold Transmission Edition), ROSI - SAD DANCE SONGS, HOPE, SCHWARZER KAFFEE REMIX EP, Grey City Life (Vinyl/LP | sold out), kaltes land (7" | sold out), and Just Another Animal (Tape | sold out). , and , .

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1.	Intro 01:30	buy track
2.	Film 03:23	buy track
3.	Verloren 04:12	buy track
4.	Kaltes Land 02:55	buy track
5.	Graue Stadt feat Torsun 04:09	buy track
6.	Jeder 04:49	buy track
7.	Tanzen 03:09	buy track
8.	Weak 03:18	buy track
9.	Halten 04:32	buy track
10.	Schwarzer Kaffee 03:11
11.	Schlaf feat. Joana & Tkalec 02:09

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Rosi ‘Grey City Life’

Grey sounds, vintage atmosphere, a little dust, pictures of old tramways, clubs filled with smoke, grey city life – such are the impressions that Rosi’s music evokes. The Bielefeld-based project was founded in 2014 by Sven Rosenkötter and saw him join forces with Mirco Rappsilber in 2015 on guitar, bass and synthesizer. Their sound lies somewhere between post-punk, dark indie and wave, and mixes influences such as Bauhaus, Joy Division and Tuxedomoon. Their approach is reduced, raw, and authentic.

The singles ‘Kaltes Land’ and ‘Tanzen’ herald the first full-length LP of the duo, ‘Grey City Life’: An album musically reflecting the metropolis’ colorless vibe, with guitar riffs pouring down like cold acid rain on the asphalt, vocals reminiscent of The Fall speaking of frozen laughter and lonely eyes, and bass pulsing with the steps on the streets of this sonic city. Distortions like nameless scars, the synths the fog, stark drums the march into the morrow.

Rosi unites danceable wave tunes like ‘Film’ or ‘Schwarzer Kaffee’ with introspective and minimal pieces such as ‘Verloren’ and yet remain true to themselves. Each sound represents the lyrical quality; each note translates an emotion into music. The heavy bass in ‘Graue Stadt’ merges with the guitar, their coalescence only deepening the inescapability of this ice age in song. ‘Jeder’ radiates a leaden heaviness, the melancholic guitars trying to grasp something in the distance – hope, an illusion, a daydream shattered by the vocals. Guest singer Joana extends a velvet veil on the nocturnal ballad ‘Schlaf’, the elegiac closing track, whose unexpected strings summon the night.

With ‘Grey City Life’ the two ‘brothers in spirit’ of Rosi have created a debut that’s dark and dirty like the soul-devouring metropolis. Ten tracks for silent screams, a sound that permeates the silence, and a color in something otherwise hopelessly grey.

- Barbara Cuinetti

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released September 2, 2016

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ROSI Bielefeld, Germany

.ROSI - SAD DANCE SONGS (CD/LP 27.11.2020 – DISENTERTAINMENT/in a bad mood/Broken Silence)

SVEN ROSENKÖTTER and MIRCO RAPPSILBER started to work on their third album
SAD DANCE SONGS in February 2020.
In June, ROSI announced their transfer to the DISENTERTAINMENT-label , to find a wider audience beside the Post-Punk fanbase. Musically, ROSI stay true to themselves and don't deny their roots. ... more

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