Hallo Venray has been completely renewed: differently packaged, more exotic in taste and now doubly concentrated. The band and co-producer and arranger Hans Vandenburg have turned Hallo Venray into a CD that is difficult to digest at first, which differs greatly from what the gentlemen made before. There is fierce romping with samples, 'weird' sounds and different arrangements on a record that
… includes Building, My Place and Go! only contains a few real songs. The experiments work out well in Love Ya, inspired by Beck's work, but in the other tracks it is mainly surprising. Whether the completely renewed Hallo Venray will last longer is still the question. (Wvd.Z)more
