Son of the Velvet Rat - The Red Barn Sessions - Sargfabrik

Sargfabrik - Verein für integrative Lebensgestaltung, Wien

Son of the Velvet Rat are going on tour with songs from the current "Red Barn Sessions" and their acclaimed album "Ghost Ranch". Both productions were created in the legendary Red Barn Recorders Studio in the Californian desert - with prominent guests such as Marc Ribot (guitar), Jolie Holland (vocals, violin) as well as Jay Bellerose and Danny Frankel on drums. Despite this star line-up, the sound remains more reduced and transparent than ever before.

Both Ghost Ranch and the Red Barn Sessions received outstanding reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Live, Son of the Velvet Rat now take the songs back to their core: Georg Altziebler and Heike Binder perform as a duo - Heike provides the rhythmic foundation as well as the keyboard instruments. The new program combines current songs with highlights from the back catalog and shows an impressive range: from fragile neo-folk chansons to rough garage rock.

The American songwriter and music journalist Paul Cullum (NY Times, LA Weekly) on the songs: "The result is like some exotic desert fruit of indeterminate provenance - equal parts ragged glory and brooding noir," - an apt description for this music full of light, shadow and unexpected beauty.

Heike Binder - organ, accordion, Georg Altziebler - guitar, voice