The Hawaiian Troy Von Balthazar, leader of slow rock band Chokebore, releases his third album ...is with the demon. Frail in appearance, this eccentric and charismatic person only lives by and for music. Uncomfortable in a world that rejects him, he starts singing the tale of his moods in a deeply moving voice. Expiatory victim of a materialistic society that persecutes those who dream, he chose to devote himself body and soul to the beauty. The gentle and encouraged man makes fun of careerism,
sometimes sad clown, sometimes poet. “Life is absolutely boring” could he say, childish. In How to live on nothing, his second solo album, the artist hesitated between giving meaning to life and facing the finiteness of the ordinary world. Minimalist melodies singed with his disturbing voice sowed the seeds of poetry. The magic is back, soberness is total and Troy deals with his old demons to take us to heaven. With this third album, a journey into loneliness, Troy Von Balthazar, performs without his knowledge the secrets of the soul, abstruse to the human being. His song revisits the illusions and retains, the moment of a melody, the ultimate happiness of existence.
Little Julie
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