Vivianne Viveur - The Art Of Arranging Flowers
(Seahorse / Goodfellas, 2007)

Originally Vivianne Viveur was an Italian band formed in 2001. By 2002 they moved to London. And for what it's worth, these guys know how to integrate inspiration and creativity in a song. It's difficult to put a stamp on it, the music they make is uneasy and difficult to get into. Their psychedelic improvisations intend to change into powerful melodies and create an atmosphere that is dark, dramatic and theatrical and sometimes bursting into immense noise-eruptions. Every song seems to have a metaphor of style and feeling.

The album is full of dissonants and contrasts by delicate songstructures on the one hand such as 'Princess' and 'Trembling' and on the other hand by songs of dark alienation such as 'Verlaine' and 'Elis And The Bad Moon'. Minimalism and drama are melting together with surrealistic atmospheres and develop some moments of authentic beauty.

This all might seem a little bit confusing but you just have to imagine how these guys sound. You hear Gavin Friday - who's just been kicked in the ass - while performing with his band 'Virgin Prunes' and sharing the stage with 'Sonic Youth' in their better days.

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REVIEW ON   "GOTHTRONIC" , June 2007

The atmospheres are dark, and it couldn't be otherwise for an album entitled "Funeral For To Cloud". It will be perhaps the London air, city where they moved to, but as it suggests the opening title the band is filled with an inspired lunacy that very rarely finds life in Italy. Vocals in full David Bowie style, sound like Goblin; Vivianne Viveur fascinate after few listenings. The trio sings in English, it could also be said that "sounds" in English, on the wake of the great bands that made of England the greates musical scene in Europe. If a band therefore must go far away from Italy in order to attract attention, it means that we don't have ears to listen anymore.

REVIEW ON "FREEQUENCY" , Sept. 2006

 Third up was Vivianne Viveur who played music that comes from a darkly beautiful place. 

Their poetic songs were delicately gothic and plaintive but could also be expansive and 

intense. They provided us with a no frills, subtle performance and let the music itself 

itself overtake our senses. Songs such as 'When the Wind is a Memory of You' were so 

intricately constructed that they had a tendency undergo entrancing metamorphoses. 

Vivianne Viveur are one of those unique, precious bands that defy categorization.

LIVE REVIEW ON GLASSWERK, June 2006

"Vivianne Viveur have produced a breathtaking EP that portrays their darkly beautiful 

range of songs. Their poetic lyrics are encased in a delicately gothic sound, 

with surges of intensity that are overpowering. These songs are intricately crafted with 

keen musicianship and each one tends to twist into surprising transformations. 

Take "winter": a tense build up to an expansive chorus suddenly dissipates into a 

languishing, liberating sequence. This is an eerily unique EP that defies categorisation. 

Words and music are  separate entities that fuse with each other in intense 

suggestions and unexpected atmospheres. A tense, constant alternation of melody 

and dissonance urges towards suspended places of imagination."

REVIEW ON   "NME" , April 2006