Victor Janusz Band - Cafe Pluvieux (2018)

With six, original tunes, Janusz juxtaposes global unrest of 2018 with 1940s-France.... Says Janusz... "I am intrigued by the emotional weight of profound change upheavals that force individuals to define their beliefs, their sense of justice...their humanity. I want these songs to touch people deeply... people from all walks"

Janusz' title track ("Cafe Pluvieux") sets the tone: Four people walk into a Cafe are they strangers? Or co-workers? Are they planning a party to lift their spirits? Or an assassination? Are we in Paris-1944 during the final collapse of the Occupation? Or Seattle 2018, planning a march? The record includes Janusz' high-stepping "Don't Start the Show without Me!" the hard-driving "Prince of Piece of Mind", and the more subdued "Soldier On" and "Saint Malo" the latter a duet inspired by Anthony Doerr's Pultizer-winning book "All the Light We Cannot See". Standards by Cole Porter and Harold Arlen, and imaginative covers of Todd Rundgren, Carpenters, and U2 round out this 2018 Release.