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VICTOR DELORENZO  Album Notes
If you have certain preconceptions about the kind of album drummers make, you would be wise to discard them when considering Victor DeLorenzo’s self-titled solo recording. As founding member of Violent Femmes, DeLorenzo has been anything but an ordinary or conventional percussionist since he was first heard in the vinyl grooves of the seminal folk-punk band’s debut in 1983. Among his many musical talents, DeLorenzo is an imaginative singer/songwriter with a flair for cryptic wordplay and groovy chaos. Using the studio as a sonic palette, he paints music in bold strokes that seriously bend the definitions of what is a song and what is an instrumental.

One of the most striking features of DeLorenzo’s songwriting is the spectrum of influences his musical stylings reveal. A choice cover of the Zombies “I Remember When I Loved Her” sounds like a track from an early Beatles album with its haunting, minor-chord acoustic guitar and percussion-driven melody. The crazed fun of “Auction Man (Yer on the Air)” sounds like a feverish Captain Beefheart spell, with a saxophone run amok as a ghostly, distorted radio voice is stretched like gauze over these musical contortions. “Bow” uses just drums and multi-tracked voices to create a totally fun groove that would fit right in on a Flaming Lips CD. DeLorenzo’s punkier side comes to the fore on the full-on rocker “Gonna Wanna” and Femmes bandmate Gordon Gano sings the trippy lead vocal on the darkly hypnotic and self-help book styled “Dr. Um.” And yes, there is plenty for drummers to dig here, too, like the freewheeling solo DeLorenzo plays on “Moving Toward Something.”

Malachi DeLorenzo (Victor’s son) is a frequent co-writer and musical collaborator in this project, which also includes other DeLorenzo kin as well as virtuoso instrumentalists Mike Hoffmann on guitar & bass, Stas Venglevski on accordion and Kim Manning (from the George Clinton funk ensemble) on keyboards and vocals. The blending of male and female voices on many of these songs is masterful, and the engineering talents and provocative production ideas give this record an audible glow that is a joyful mystery to get lost in. Like a good novel, Victor DeLorenzo’s sublime musical creation journeys you away from the predictable and mundane. All you have to do is come along, and listen. ~ Jim Ohlschmidt



You  can  download  or  buy a  cd  of  my album  here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/victordelorenzo

Vjd by Karen Keene

one of the drum systems used on "Carry Me"

 Victor DeLorenzo   
1.  carry me *
2.  old  soul   depression
3.  moving  towards  something
4.  before  it  happens
5.  dr.  um *
6.  being  straight  is
7.  old  soul  depression  2a
8.  peace *
9.  i  remember  when  i  loved  her *
10. bow
11. auction  man  (yer  on  the  air)
12. gonna  wanna
13. a  quiet  walk
14. don't  you   remember ? *
15. good  feeling

Produced  by  Victor  DeLorenzo
(*)  with  Malachi  DeLorenzo

recorded   by  victor  delorenzo ,  malachi  delorenzo   and   steve  hamilton
mixed  and  arranged     by  victor  &   malachi  delorenzo
mastered   by  steve  hamilton
recorded   at :   sympathetic   muffler,  joes'  real  recording,  the  past  office   and      makin'  sausage  music

photographic  images  by  victor  delorenzo  &  karen  keene
graphic  design  by  holle  brian

musicians  who  play  &  sing  on  this  album  :
victor  delorenzo  :  drums  &  drum sets,  percussion,  bass,  guitar,  keyboards,  vocals
malachi  delorenzo  :  drum  set,  percussion,  bass,  guitar,  keyboards
karen  keene  :  flute
peri  delorenzo  :  violin
toshiko  delorenzo  :  background  vocals
mike  hoffmann  :  bass
alex  stewart  :  guitar
jason  wietlispach  :  tenor  sax,  bass  clarinet
stas  venglevski  :  accordion
monia  :  voice

guest vocal  on  " dr.  um" -  gordon  gano
guest  vocal(s)  &  keyboards  on  "good  feeling" -  kim  manning

this  album  is  dedicated  to  daniel  kaniess

this  is  another  brainowner  production,  even  !

c  &  p  2013   bfr  recordings


WATCH A VIDEO FOR "CARRY ME" HERE :  http://ow.ly/BRPBz 

Victor DeLorenzo by Marc Potochnik

Vjd

Victor DeLorenzo by Peri DeLorenzo

Victor by Caroline Greyshock

in my trailer on the set of the film, "The Time Travelers Wife"

in a hotel room, somewhere in the World, bored, even.