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Son of the Velvet Rat music review |
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Son of the Velvet Rat
Loss & Love
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I have long been a fan of Georg Altziebler and Son of the Velvet Rat. His last Album, Playground, was an introspective journey into, what I thought were, personal trials and tribulations, but he exposed them as normal human fear, suffering, and angst; they are just expressed differently in different people.
Track listing:
01 Intro
2. Lovesong #8
3. Bad Screenplay / Bad Karma (Are You Ready To Shoot?)
4. Fall With Me
5. Out In The Blue
6. The Knife
7. Drift & Dream
8. Horsedoctor
9. What Makes Me Hurt
10. Strange Type Of Sleep
11. Sunshine
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Loss & Love is less personal and more universal; it reminds you that pain is as natural as joy, and everything has its ups and downs. In the end, what you choose to focus on is your own choice. That is what makes tragedy all the more tragic. Everybody has the right to grieve, and hide, but the length and expression of grief is entirely up to you.
Georg Altziebler has a gentle voice that coaxes these guilty feelings to the surface and helps to exorcise them in one cathartic, and therapeutic episode of hypnosis. The music takes you by the hand and explains that this is going to hurt, but everybody has to go through it; it will be alright, and it is love. After that, you will always have a special connection to this album, and Georg Altziebler's music.
This album sounds as if Georg Altziebler spent a lifetime collaborating with Donovan, George Harrison, Leonard Cohen, and Tom Waits. Yeah, it’s that good. Every time a Son of the Velvet Rat album comes out, it spends at least a week on my play list. I enjoy the feelings it evokes.
-Jason Hall 07/11/07
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