Son of the Velvet Rat
… coming soon!
live performance lineup
Georg Altziebler (git, voc)
Albrecht Klinger (git, voc)
Heike Binder (b-voc, keys, melodica)
Klaus Fürstner (drums)
Christian Eitner (bass)
ex-bands
Pure Laine (1989 - 1995)
Bloom 05 (1995 - 2003)
concert work
in Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Croatia and the USA
(with Pure Laine, Bloom 05 and Son of the Velvet Rat)
with Pure Laine and “Burn” on MTV
report about the SotVR-gig in Hartberg (november 2nd, 2007)
youtube-stuff
“Are The Angels Pretty?”
“Horsedoctor” (live in Hartberg, november 2nd, 2007)
“Hotel Song” (live@RKH, Vienna, october 23rd, 2007)
“The Sea So Blue” (live@RKH, Vienna, october 23rd, 2007)
“Pauline” (live@RKH, Vienna, october 23rd, 2007)
shortcuts on “Loss & Love”
“Son of the Velvet Rat has presented his masterpiece: ‘Loss & Love’ – heart-rending songs blending US folk-rock and chanson.”
(Christian Schachinger, Der Standard, June 27th, 2007)
“The featured performer is Altziebler’s voice, singing with radical melancholy of love, of its loss, and of everything of beauty and importance in between. As beautiful and important as this album.”
(Sebastian Hofer, Profil, #26, June 25th, 2007)
“An album like a river that one follows, spellbound, from the source through placid stretches and turbulent ones, until at some point you completely lose yourself in it. Absolutely great.”
(Sebastian Fasthuber, Now, #60 Jul/Aug 2007)
“Georg Altziebler’s new album is – distilled down to its essence – fantastic alternative folk.”
(Guido Tartarotti, Kurier, June 24th, 2007)
“Georg Altziebler remains the master of using minimalist means to achieve maximal results. (…) Skeletal songs, fleshed out with optigan, Hammond organ and cello, between folk, alternative country and indie Dire Straits, having more tension, charisma and captivating atmosphere in their little fingers than most songwriters do in both hands.” (Oliver Uschmann, Visions, #173, 08/07)
“Melancholy songs, full of tension to the point of bursting, eating away at the very substance of the capacity for cheery exuberance. Minimalist instrumentations, soft melodies, strokes and caresses as light as a feather. Each of these 11 songs possesses its own very special magic that gently spews subdued sparks and fans them into a blazing conflagration. Listening to the tender ‘Lovesong #8’ or the hideous ‘Bad Screenplay/Bad Karma/Are you ready to shoot?’ (whose dramatics inevitably evoke recollections of the great devastations) is enough to take your breath away.”
(Christian Preußer, plattentest.de, June 2007)
“There are situations in which a writer comes to doubt the capacity of his words to do justice to an artist’s music. To make a long story short: We’re talking about songwriting greatness of one who is the equal of David Eugene Edwards. And I write this with knowledge aforethought and in full possession of my mental faculties.”
(M. Streitberger, sellfish.de, June 2007)
“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. Loss & Love is less personal and more universal (…) 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.” (onetimesone.com, Jason Hall, 11. Juli 2007)
features
Falter (Sebastian Fasthuber, #25/07) | Der Standard (Christian Schachinger, June 27th, 2007) | Kleine Zeitung (Werner Krause, June 27th, 2007) | KURIER (Andreas Russ, June 23rd, 2007) | Kronen Zeitung (Martin Gasser, June 13th, 2007) | The Gap (Bastian Kellhofer, #077/June-July | CD-Rating: 7/10) | now! (Fredi Themel, #60/July-Aug. 2007) | Skug (G. Bus Schweiger, #71/July-Sept. 07) | mica (Aug. 23rd, 2007)
reviews
Profil (Sebastian Hofer, #26/07 & #1 CD-Charts) | KURIER (Guido Tartarotti, June 24th, 2007) | KURIER (Andreas Russ, June 23rd, 2007) | The Gap (June 13th, 2007) | now! (Fredi Themel, #60/July-Aug. 2007) | derstandard.at Monatliche Playlists | VOR magazin CD-Rating: 4/5 | Lichtspiele (June 11th, 2007) | KURIER Freizeit (June 23rd, 2007) | Volksbank, Heimspiel (June 25th, 2007) | orf.at (June 26th, 2007) | BF CD tipp (July 9th, 2007)
Germany
Intro | Visions | Musikwoche | Wom Magazin | Go München | curt | in München | CDstarts.de | digitales Lifestylemagazin | discover – musik & mehr | Flaming Youth | Gaesteliste.de | laut.de | MTV.de | music-scan.de | plattentest.de | rote raupe | sellfish.de | subculture.de | tonspion.de (charts)
radio (charts, rotation, features)
ORF Radio Ö1 (features) | FM4 (No. 3/charts, rotation, features) | ORF Radio NÖ | radio orange (feature, „Gezeichnet für´s Leben“)
Germany (rotation)
Studio Bergisch Land | Tide | bermuda.funk – Freies Radio Rhein-Neckar e. V. | Eldoradio | Hertz 87,9 | Hochschulradio Aachen | Radio Dreyeckland | Radio Q | Redaktion HoRadS | Uniradio Magdeburg
TV (announcements, features)
ORF (ORF Steiermark, Szene, newsflash/ZiB, Aviso) | PULStv (Metro)
features, reviews, radio “Playground”
discography
Spare Some Sugar (for the rat) | 2003
By My Side | 2003
Alpha-Suite | 2004
Playground | 2006
Loss & Love | 2007
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