Van Vogt aka Rio Glacier is an
Swiss Songwriter and Peformance Artist.
He lives in St. Gallen, Switzerland.Starting in
winter 2018, Van Vogt alias Rio Glacier initiated
his own project. Text and music are written by Van
himself, as well as most of the instruments programmed
and produced. Luc Stalder takes the lead guitar. In live
performances, Stalder is playing alongside Van, accompanied
by other musicians like Heinz Morf on the bass.
Instrumentally, Rio Glacier shows us once again more than one facet.
Powerful guitar solos and riffs underline their songs and harmonise with
verses and refrains without outshining them. The drum cadenzas
take the audience on a journey, riding on the back of rhythmical
currents. You will not be able to repress an occasional tapping with
your foot when sitting in a tram or a train. What is more, RG goes
beyond simply using the classical band instruments like guitar, bass,
piano and drums. Thus, in Think and do what you want a group of brass
instruments gets its turn, almost blowing you away.
Nor are the strings missing. In She, violins and cellos paint with tender
tones an image of love, trust and devotion and let you think in their transporting
power of those in your life that touch you as deeply as does RG’s ‘she’. Nonetheless,
Rio do not seem to glorify reality, nor do they outdistance the truth. They simply tend
to find the right words, or more importantly, the right tones that express what life is all about.
Ultimately, Rio Glacier convince us to once more focus solely on the music, listen closely and at the same time they play us the soundtracks to our own multifaceted lives.