Christof Van Der Ven - You Were The Place

Christof Van Der Ven - You Were The Place'Bravais Arc' sets the scene and the pace of Christof's second album, where he picks apart the hypocrisies and contradictions of a recent fleeting romance to expansive synths and often experimental instrumentation. A Bravais Arc is the optical phenomenon of an upside down rainbow, and though they are relatively common, they require a special set of circumstances to be seen. Within this first album track, Christof recalls the alignment of circumstances

It is a bit odd to hear a woman do Willie Brown's "Future Blues

appearing on best-of lists

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and was followed by Only As The Day Is Long in 2008

" peppered with uncompromising double-bass thunderstorms

with it's orchestration and soulful vocals

The fruits of a long-standing kinship were three tracks that mysteriously showed up on Internet doorsteps nearly two years ago

This album is pure pop inflected rock 'n' roll that remains true to Javier's love of '60s garage and '70s punk and glam

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"I have tried to put together a strong line-up for the band and I am confident that 'Gravitas' illustrates that

I realized I'd amassed a huge collection of miniatures and a few larger pieces which had nothing to do with what the band was doing

but she lives on as the epitome of the operatic diva