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The Violet Burning - The Story of Our Lives:
Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine
by Jocelyn Aucoin
It's that ache in your heart.
That place inside you where all the stuff collects and collides like junk in a drawer.
Except it's not junk. It's real and it matters and it's the matter that makes you. It’s that ache that makes you want to fight and surrender, scream and sigh. It's decaying and it's beautiful and it's full of these awkward opposites. So full that sometimes you don't understand. You can't understand.
But then someone or something comes along to give it shape, a voice. Someone whose ability to capture this space is so pure, so precise, that it springs hope within us and legs to stand on.
Something like The Violet Burning.
The Violets (affectionately called) have been making music under the direction of creative mainspring, Michael J Pritzl, since 1990. A prolific songwriter, Pritzl's story is one of endurance, endurance manifested in a plethora of albums and relentless touring throughout the US and Europe. Endurance resulting in an absolute rabid
following of fans. Though Pritzl has surrounded himself with different musicians through the years, the music has never been compromised and the fans keep coming back for the powerful, guitar-driven rock The Violets never fail to deliver. This time that rock is enlivened with the drumming virtuosity that is Lenny Beh. A stunningly emotive addition.
Nothing proves The Violets bring the rock better than their latest effort, their 9th full-length studio album, The Story of Our Lives: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine, an audio triptych of sorts. The album's 34 songs are divided into three parts: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine. Although asunder, the album rages with rock and drips with beauty, all the while shaking it's figurative fist at a digital age wherein, despite the abundance of material available, artists still feel beholden to the 10-song album format restrictions of the past.
The Violets didn't feel this restriction and because of that, The Story of Our Lives is not just an auditory experience, it is a multi-sensory aesthetic experience. These songs didn't take a week to write or two days to record. The artwork wasn't thrown together in an hour in Photoshop. This is a complete body of work that began as a spark of an idea and has now been seven years in the making. In this way, it defies the unspoken and mediocre standards of today, offering up an incredible sonic experience in addition to a riveting lyrical journey.
And the journey is a familiar one. In fact, it reads like some of the greatest novels ever written. The Fantastic Machine sets the tone for this journey as "Where It All Begins" climbs from a pensive, pretty melody to an all out blur of frantic guitars, over which "my heart and soul are wired in!" it screamed wild and breathy. It's the definition of epic, and songs like “Machine Beat Sabbatha” and “Imminent Collapse” follow suit, allowing the listener in on the chaos that's brewing in the heart of our character. “The Letting” and “Leaving” tell a quieter story, one that will course through your veins with their beautiful sadness. And in the end, our character leaves The Fantastic Machine behind, giving up on a life that has been selling him lies.
Black as Death picks up where this sadness leaves off, descending on ears like a bat out of hell--an almost mindless storm of sound and distortion. “My Name is Night” is case and point of this, heavy and teeming with Sabbath-like drumming. “Maelstorm” expands into this chaos, the entropy of its opening guitars hitting like the explosion of tides. Pritzl's delicate falsetto dancing atop the water. And then there is “Rock Is Dead”, which exists not only as the definition of pop song perfection, but shows our character gaining strength. Shivers run down your spine when he screams, "I'm going on, going on!" "In Ruin" leaves a sweet taste in our mouths with it's swirly delays, rhodes bells and sweeping cello.
Enter Liebe über Alles, The Story of Our Lives' graceful and exquisite counterpart. Our character has chosen death, but now lives to continue his journey home. A beautiful relenting, “Mon Désir” is honest in both melody and lyric as Pritzl’s broken voice sings, "All I want is you." "Arc" has a driving rhythm that climaxes with an explosion of spirited strings. "I am coming home!" The dreamy and romantic ballad, "I Caught Fire", is encased in a haze of fuzz guitar, pulsing drums and the descending piano, "…in all the songs of men and angels, if I have no love, I'm blank." And finally “through a life, blessed and cursed, love and only love goes on and on…” the true rest of “Liebe über Alles” and the final acknowledgement that our character has made it home.
This is not just another album by another band. This is a realization. A realization that this story--the struggle and the heartache, feeling lost and so alone--belongs to each one of us. It’s the way we feel when we are sad and broken and it’s the way we feel when we are so complete and content, at home and at rest within ourselves and with others and with “The Lord of Song.” It’s knowing we’re not alone in this big, messed up machine of a world. It’s the hope of “every corner of our heart and soul” being made for someone who loves us more than we will ever understand.
This is the story of our lives.
The Violet Burning is Michael J. Pritzl, Daryl Dawson and Lenny Beh. THE STORY OF OUR LIVES: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death,and TH3 FANT^5T1C MACH1N3 was written and recorded by Michael Pritzl at Nowhere, CA studios (various closets, garages, entry ways, and bedrooms in Southern California) and features Eleanor Beh on Cello and Jeff Schroeder of Smashing Pumpkins (lead guitar on 3 songs).
The Story Of Our Lives was released digitally at thevioletburning.com March 5, 2011. The triple album will be coming worldwide one part at a time via iTunes, Amazon, and other online digital resellers throughout 2011. The triple album will also be available in it’s physical, beautiful, limited edition, 80-page packaging via thevioletburning.com beginning April 4, 2011. The Violet Burning are now planning US and European tour dates.
-Jocelyn Aucoin – 2011
The Violet Burning - The Stor… Read Full Bio ↴Official Bio from thevioletburning.com
The Violet Burning - The Story of Our Lives:
Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine
by Jocelyn Aucoin
It's that ache in your heart.
That place inside you where all the stuff collects and collides like junk in a drawer.
Except it's not junk. It's real and it matters and it's the matter that makes you. It’s that ache that makes you want to fight and surrender, scream and sigh. It's decaying and it's beautiful and it's full of these awkward opposites. So full that sometimes you don't understand. You can't understand.
But then someone or something comes along to give it shape, a voice. Someone whose ability to capture this space is so pure, so precise, that it springs hope within us and legs to stand on.
Something like The Violet Burning.
The Violets (affectionately called) have been making music under the direction of creative mainspring, Michael J Pritzl, since 1990. A prolific songwriter, Pritzl's story is one of endurance, endurance manifested in a plethora of albums and relentless touring throughout the US and Europe. Endurance resulting in an absolute rabid
following of fans. Though Pritzl has surrounded himself with different musicians through the years, the music has never been compromised and the fans keep coming back for the powerful, guitar-driven rock The Violets never fail to deliver. This time that rock is enlivened with the drumming virtuosity that is Lenny Beh. A stunningly emotive addition.
Nothing proves The Violets bring the rock better than their latest effort, their 9th full-length studio album, The Story of Our Lives: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine, an audio triptych of sorts. The album's 34 songs are divided into three parts: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death and The Fantastic Machine. Although asunder, the album rages with rock and drips with beauty, all the while shaking it's figurative fist at a digital age wherein, despite the abundance of material available, artists still feel beholden to the 10-song album format restrictions of the past.
The Violets didn't feel this restriction and because of that, The Story of Our Lives is not just an auditory experience, it is a multi-sensory aesthetic experience. These songs didn't take a week to write or two days to record. The artwork wasn't thrown together in an hour in Photoshop. This is a complete body of work that began as a spark of an idea and has now been seven years in the making. In this way, it defies the unspoken and mediocre standards of today, offering up an incredible sonic experience in addition to a riveting lyrical journey.
And the journey is a familiar one. In fact, it reads like some of the greatest novels ever written. The Fantastic Machine sets the tone for this journey as "Where It All Begins" climbs from a pensive, pretty melody to an all out blur of frantic guitars, over which "my heart and soul are wired in!" it screamed wild and breathy. It's the definition of epic, and songs like “Machine Beat Sabbatha” and “Imminent Collapse” follow suit, allowing the listener in on the chaos that's brewing in the heart of our character. “The Letting” and “Leaving” tell a quieter story, one that will course through your veins with their beautiful sadness. And in the end, our character leaves The Fantastic Machine behind, giving up on a life that has been selling him lies.
Black as Death picks up where this sadness leaves off, descending on ears like a bat out of hell--an almost mindless storm of sound and distortion. “My Name is Night” is case and point of this, heavy and teeming with Sabbath-like drumming. “Maelstorm” expands into this chaos, the entropy of its opening guitars hitting like the explosion of tides. Pritzl's delicate falsetto dancing atop the water. And then there is “Rock Is Dead”, which exists not only as the definition of pop song perfection, but shows our character gaining strength. Shivers run down your spine when he screams, "I'm going on, going on!" "In Ruin" leaves a sweet taste in our mouths with it's swirly delays, rhodes bells and sweeping cello.
Enter Liebe über Alles, The Story of Our Lives' graceful and exquisite counterpart. Our character has chosen death, but now lives to continue his journey home. A beautiful relenting, “Mon Désir” is honest in both melody and lyric as Pritzl’s broken voice sings, "All I want is you." "Arc" has a driving rhythm that climaxes with an explosion of spirited strings. "I am coming home!" The dreamy and romantic ballad, "I Caught Fire", is encased in a haze of fuzz guitar, pulsing drums and the descending piano, "…in all the songs of men and angels, if I have no love, I'm blank." And finally “through a life, blessed and cursed, love and only love goes on and on…” the true rest of “Liebe über Alles” and the final acknowledgement that our character has made it home.
This is not just another album by another band. This is a realization. A realization that this story--the struggle and the heartache, feeling lost and so alone--belongs to each one of us. It’s the way we feel when we are sad and broken and it’s the way we feel when we are so complete and content, at home and at rest within ourselves and with others and with “The Lord of Song.” It’s knowing we’re not alone in this big, messed up machine of a world. It’s the hope of “every corner of our heart and soul” being made for someone who loves us more than we will ever understand.
This is the story of our lives.
The Violet Burning is Michael J. Pritzl, Daryl Dawson and Lenny Beh. THE STORY OF OUR LIVES: Liebe über Alles, Black as Death,and TH3 FANT^5T1C MACH1N3 was written and recorded by Michael Pritzl at Nowhere, CA studios (various closets, garages, entry ways, and bedrooms in Southern California) and features Eleanor Beh on Cello and Jeff Schroeder of Smashing Pumpkins (lead guitar on 3 songs).
The Story Of Our Lives was released digitally at thevioletburning.com March 5, 2011. The triple album will be coming worldwide one part at a time via iTunes, Amazon, and other online digital resellers throughout 2011. The triple album will also be available in it’s physical, beautiful, limited edition, 80-page packaging via thevioletburning.com beginning April 4, 2011. The Violet Burning are now planning US and European tour dates.
-Jocelyn Aucoin – 2011
Through My Tears
The Violet Burning Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Through My Tears' by these artists:
DGM Open your heart, there's a feeling in the air In everything…
Neutral Milk Hotel Watch the wind blow your cigarette smoke through my window …
We have lyrics for these tracks by The Violet Burning:
Aching Aching like I do For love to last forever Please come home…
All I Want Whenever I am near you, I fall for you You light…
All Right When my heart is sad When my soul is weary I go…
Already Gone Please, don't let me go. This time I really need…
Arabic Tremolo Radio This could last all day It's heaven when you hold me Maybe…
As I Am Mary, she knows In a world that's dark Torn apart at the…
Beautiful Faithful One When I fall into Your arms There I find the…
Berlin Kitty Digging for life in Berlin City Gave me more than I…
Blind Got some time? Have you got feelings? Will you sell some, …
Blown Away The two of us together, we'll go down forever By the…
Br0thr Part 1 I was looking for Jesus Singing out here in the streets We…
Br0thr Part 2 Turn off the radio The artists now will play for free I've…
Breakdown We were standing in the central station As the trains came…
Cardiac Creator of all life Maker of the sea and sky Humbled unto…
Change Of Heart I've been so lost in the years of my regret I've…
Clean My God has rescued me Taken my rags, and made me…
Clean (My God Has Rescued Me) My God has rescued me Taken my rags, and made me…
Crush Uh, alright I can't focus on what needs to get done I'm…
Do You Love Me? I can't live without you, baby You blinded me with your…
Dreadful I think every light that ever shined is burning And…
Elaste Lay your hands now on me Let your love cover…
Eleanor When I'm with you, you're as good as gold And I…
Eleanor Rigby Ah look at all the lonely people Ah look at all…
Eleven Could you fill my soul? I just don't have what it…
Everywhere I Go Nothing can compare to you; your love is perfect and…
Feel Here, waiting for the sun Will she ever shine on us…
Fever If I fall apart on you now Would you hold me? If…
Finest Hour Now you've carried me 14,000 days Isn't this the story of…
Firstborn From the Dead Oh no, I've got a dis3^se T3^r my h3^rt out Tear my…
Forty Weight Oh God be merciful to me Lift me from the earth…
Gold Give me a heart White like snow Give me a heart Pure as…
Goldmine Take me To the other side And show me All those things in…
Gone Gone Gone Turn off the radio The artists now will play for free I've…
Gorgeous I swear it was the Fourth of July And I could…
Graves We got the lights out Come on, stay with me…
Heart Wide Open I watch the water down the drain Touch my life, it…
Heaven Holds My Heart I got a halo over my head, guiding me home I've…
Humm Turn out all the lights and let's begin Switch on all…
I Caught Fire I could never let you go We were singing to the…
I Don't Belong You c^rri3d m3 for y3ars in your ^rms YOU WROT3 YOUR…
I Remember Oh how sweet is the blood of Jesus That was poured…
I See Stars Hold my hand in the pouring rain; I never wanna…
I Will Always Stand By You Hey, do you feel afraid? Do you feel so alone? Have you…
I'm No Superman Out the door, just in time, Head down the 405, Gotta meet…
I'm Not Letting Go I wanna sing and shine I'm a stranger in this place Carry…
If You Let Me I've been watching you For a long time I have loved you F…
Ilaria I kind of like it when you sway You know everybody…
Imminent Collapse There's no way no way 1'm giving in There's no way…
In Ruin Now the rain it fell Like it did when we were…
Invitation Foundation Let all who are weak All who are weary Come to the…
Lacuna With every step, I went out on my own Darling you've…
Let It Begin Get me to that river And take me out, down deep I've…
Liebe über Alles A long way To your door Love and love alone Can bring me…
lights out W1th out l1ghts out Th1s 1s th3 w^y hom3 Br3athe, ^nd w3ep…
Like the Sun My love Be near me tonight Hide me in the shadow of…
Lord Rescue Me Lord, rescue me Oh Lord, rescue me May I sing this holy…
Lost Without You Near Me I've run alone through these empty streets No children play…
Love Is The Loaded Gun You got the gun? Love is the gun. Love sweet love Your …
Lovesick 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Come on, show 'em what we've…
Low I could die here tonight Your beautiful words in my soul I…
Machine Beat Sabbatha I could feel my heart stop beating - I can…
Made For You Every corner of my heart This was made for you Every corne…
Maelstrom We fall down one by one We all fade like the…
Manta Rae Been carrying this heavy case - yeah, I've got to…
Mojave A lonely highway In the desert tonight A thousand miles to…
Mon Désir The radio plays On New Years Day And all I want is…
Moon Radio We were swept away In sunlit plaste days My heart steaming…
More I never wanted more than the beauty of your kiss.…
My Name Is Night Falling. Falling Out of my way Get out of my way Falling.…
New Breed Children Rise I see the new day rise The darkest world, the brightest…
Nobody Else You are all I want You are all I need You are…
Nowhere CA So I turned my back and went my way There must…
Oceana She walks in fields of light Under Brighton skies And lead…
One Thousand Years I've gone down from the mountains looking for a cure.…
Radio Jesus Superstar On a starry, starry shore, got my heart outside your…
Rewind Shoot, shoot, shoot me through the heart You put your arrow…
Rise Like The Lion Your eyes, they shine like diamonds Deep in my black soul …
Robot Fluide Robot We were waiting for the flood, me and you But we…
Rock Is Dead These five little words "I love you to death" Are changing…
Seamonster When you lay me by the sun When you lay me…
She Says Electric So long, I have waited just to see if you'll make…
Silver I realize something is missing I climb to the top of…
Slowa I swear I nearly drowned that night you promised me…
Sugarlight U.S.A. Gee, the stars are bright Floating with the satellites Maj…
Sugarlight USA Gee, the stars are bright Floating with the satellites Major…
Sung Torn - Torn inside my heart and soul Love - I'm…
Superman Out the door, just in time, Head down the 405, Gotta meet…
Swan Sea Light the way to thee, I'm lost upon the sea,…
Sweet Mercy Standing In dark, dark lands So close to me is hell I cou…
The Blood of Jesus You gave Your body pierced through for me. You gave Your…
The Killing Can you feel the pain he feels As the nails go…
The Last Ones Guess I never tell you How I feel when I'm down Though…
The Letting I'm not d3^d no, I'm not d3^d yet I'm not…
The Light Poured Down On Me I left to find you out there Beneath the abandoned skies T…
the loudest sound in my heart It wa5 the loud3st sound In my h3^rt It w^s the loud35t…
The Only One You are the only one I need, the love that…
The Sun And The Sky If I was a river, deep I would surely run From shore…
there is no end Lord, my eyes are growing dim And the night is closing…
There Is No One Like You All I have All I am I lay it down before you With…
There Is Nowhere Else Not the jewels Of a thousand kings Not the waves Of the m…
Underwater Can I hold you under with me? Lately, it's a little…
Undone I wanna know if it would be alright To be with…
Violet If I was a dancer I'd dance with you If I…
Waiting Take me to the sea And let her waters cover me Though…
We Close Our Eyes I know that I should let you go We're gonna ride…
Where Do We Belong? I followed you with my light on I followed you into…
where it all begins Th15 15 wh3r3 1t ^ll b3t1n5 Cl0th3ed 1n l1ght ^nd wr^pp3d…
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