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Gravity 03:21 video
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Blank And Blue 02:46
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3.
Do You Love Me? 04:36
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Blackened Air 03:08
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Sick Of You 03:15 video
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Hotel Song No2 03:55
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With “Gravity”, Son Of The Velvet Rat introduces a sideshow in the vein of Trash Pop. In this case, form and content deliberately do not produce a symbiosis but are rather on a path of collision. Why not dance if the essential questions of life are being left unanswered:
“Is anybody out there waiting – you never know!”
In contrast to the familiar down beat tempos of previous Son Of The Velvet Rat releases, the 5 new songs on “Gravity” embrace a more accelerated tempo. The instrumentation on “Gravity” takes a new turn on Son Of The Velvet Rat’s familiar piano/accordion arrangements and introduces electric guitars and 70s French pop inspired keyboards.
Once again, Ken Coomer (Ex-Wilco) arranged, produced and played drums on these new tracks.

Includes unlimited streaming of Gravity via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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released June 30, 2023

all songs by georg altziebler © 2008

produced by ken coomer & charlie brocco
recorded & mixed by ch. brocco, 16-ton studios, nashville, tn, may 2008
assistant engineer: patrick miller
overdubs @ lack of luxury, nashville
mastered by eric conn at independent mastering, nashville, tn

musicians
jason oettel - acoustic & electric bass
tyson rogers - piano, hammond b3, keyboard
ken coomer - drums, percussion,
heike binder - backing vocals, melodica
georg altziebler - vocals, guitars, e-bow
aimee romero & stefani slagle - additional backing vocals on 'gravity'
scotty huff - additional backing vocals on 'do you love me' & 'blank and blue'



bonus track: hotel song
words: altziebler, music: altziebler/klinger/khinast
recorded by michael prieß, sonic sofa studio, berlin, july 2008
mixed & mastered by rupert metnitzer, electric audio, graz

musicians
christian eitner - bass
albrecht klinger - guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
richard pappik - drums, percussion
kristof hahn - guitar
heike binder - organ, backing vocals
georg altziebler - guitar, vocals

photos: heike binder
thanks to: mel greenwald, chuck le monds, christian schafferer/hotel fürstenhof, heimo
ranzenbacher, christian marzcik

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"Grizzled, aching and enigmatically poetic Folk Rock!”—THE ROCKING MAGPIE

"There’s substance, originality, & cleverness at work here. I admire how these people take something that already exists traditionally & reinterpret it with their own ingredients to create something truly effective that resonates. This record is straight whiskey. Tom Waits would be proud."—AMERICANA HIGHWAYS ... more

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