For the second time, Georg Altziebler, the head and heart of the band Son of the Velvet Rat, teams up with artist Gilbert Bretterbauer to create a veritable collage of song lyrics and photoworks. Aptly titled Songs #2, this book follows in the footsteps of its predecessor to give Altziebler's somber reflections on love and loneliness a visual thread, expressed also in the meticulous graphic design of Christian Schienerl and Bretterbauer's photos of wildlife and decay inscribed with short phrases. Rusty and dark like a beat-up Cadillac on an American highway, the images this book conveys combine the political with the personal and metaphysical and give readers a glimpse inside the mind of one of Austria's most successful songwriters.
For the second time, Georg Altziebler, the head and heart of the band Son of the Velvet Rat, teams up with artist Gilbert Bretterbauer to create a veritable collage of song lyrics and photoworks. Aptly titled Songs #2, this book follows in the footsteps of its predecessor to give Altziebler's somber reflections on love and loneliness a visual thread, expressed also in the meticulous graphic design of Christian Schienerl and Bretterbauer's photos of wildlife and decay inscribed with short phrases. Rusty and dark like a beat-up Cadillac on an American highway, the images this book conveys combine the political with the personal and metaphysical and give readers a glimpse inside the mind of one of Austria's most successful songwriters.
