Blue Velvet (BE) « We could have written about the birds and the forest, but we haven’t found anything like that downtown ... » After the warmness of the haunted folk from their previous opus, BLUE VELVET comes with a more assertive arrogance. Blood + Rain is a direct rock with no manners. What lies behind this effrontery, yet it is even more fragile. It hurts to show his guts, then they cry to express it. Born from the meeting of Mirco and pH in a dirty bar where floated the scent of Lynch and the crunch of guitar Rudy Trouvé ( dEUS / who also collaborated on Level II, the previous album), Blue Velvet explores - with often much derision - humanity through its faded sides, without ever lapsing into misanthropy. Mistakes and weaknesses are part of existence, pain too. If BLUE VELVET is more explicit with Blood + Rain, it also appears to be more liberated and confident. Swallowing kilometers gave them much more consistency and freedom. Whether in writing, constructions, but also in the wild live experiences that now offer these guys from Belgium.