Picture © Stephan Barbery
Picture © Eric Eggerickx
Picture © Luis Alvarez
Picture © Vervloet
Picture © Eric
Eggerickx
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Formerly singer of Berntholer in the early eighties, Drita Kotaji wrote and composed "My Suitor", which was called a torch-song by the English reviews and appeared in the John Peel's Festive Fifty in 1984.
Since then, "My Suitor" has been continuously
covered by other bands amongst which, recently in
Belgium, by Buscemi and Das Pop.
Tired out by a shady manager and deceived by increasing
pressures inside the band itself, Drita
quitted Berntholer after just having signed a contract
with Blanco y Negro at WEA in London.
In the meantime, Drita
had part with several musicians for independent
and alternative projects (180° with Roland Debuyst,
The Witness of Disaster with the musicians of Isalation
Ward, Subject with Barbara Montgomery and Alain
Neefs from Bene Gesserit, Image par Image with Stephan
Barbery).
In 1986, Drita joined Marie Delier, a Brussels contemporary artist combining video installations with audio and musical pieces. Drita wrote 5 ballads for Marie Delier and took part for Marie's installation "Femmes voilées".
In 1994, Drita
wrote a solo album project with 10 songs, originally
composed for voice and piano. Planned then to be
released by a Japanese records label, the musician
Hector Zazou started to work on arrangements.
This project didn't get a result with Japan until
now, but it will certainly be released by I NEVER
KNOW Records in the future.
In 1998, Drita met
again Stephan Barbery
and created INK. with him.
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Discography
| 1982 |
Bernthöler : |
- Japanese Garden/ The Others 7' Putovski
Records 001
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| 1984 |
Bernthöler : |
- My Suitor/Emotions 7' Blue Feather BF 45831
- My Suitor/Emotions 7' Blanco Y Negro/WEA
- My Suitor-Pardon Up Here (with Wim Mertens)/Lunacies/
Emotions 12' Blanco Y Negro/WEA neg5-T
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| 1987 |
Voice & Words on Marie Delier : |
- Music For Little Room 12' MD 999
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| 1982
- 1984 |
Part on alternative productions : |
- 180° with Roland Debuyst, on 180°
cassettes
- The Witness of Disaster, on "When
the Dixie stars are playing
Peek-a-boo" C60 Camera Obscura 004
- Subject, on "One for Bangkok",
cassette l'Agence des Refusés
- Image par Image C30 Camera Obscura 011
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