Georgio 'The Dove' Valentino - The Sorrows of Young Georgio

American exile Georgio 'the Dove' Valentino and his backing band, la Société
des Mélancoliques, will be on tour this spring to promote their new album,
The Sorrows of Young Georgio, featuring Tuxedomoon’s Blaine L. Reininger
and Luc van Lieshout

“Georgio ‘the Dove’ Valentino marked 2007 by issuing his debut 7” single and a follow-up 7-song
offering, You Brought a Knife to a Gunfight, on compact disc. Then, after a series of performances
across the United States, the ever-capricious Valentino pronounced his work in the New World
complete. He quit his adopted home in Detroit (to the locals’ general relief), settled across the
Atlantic in Brussels (to the locals’ general consternation) and awaited the arrival of another similarly
auspicious year, one with enough arbitrary numerical significance to allow him to resume his
recording career in quasi-masonic style.

So it was that in 2010, aided by a new gang of conspirators-- among them Blaine L. Reininger and
Luc van Lieshout, both poached from the legendary avant-sleaze collective Tuxedomoon--, the Dove
began work on a spare, crepuscular set earmarked for 10" vinyl. The Sorrows of Young Georgio
descends on discriminating turntables in February, amidst sundry celebratory situations in the
quartier Benelux and Europe at large.” --M. Lane Johnson, official biographer

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