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Songs from a Lonely Room (2005) Lut Luttik Website Songs from a Lonely Room album now available in iTunes Music Store The Lonely Room / Right Here Right Now / Moon Love / Diamonds and Pearls / I'm Your Man / The Church of the Holy Spook / Why Me Lord? / Ik Ben God / Back in the 'Lonely' Room. Roland 'Lut' Luttik is a veteran of the Dutch music scene, has been around for two decades, playing bass with The Jack of Hearts, Drippin' Honey and a string of other projects, as well as backing several artists with whom he played hundreds and hundreds of gigs. Like many others who've had and seen their share of rock 'n' roll on the road, Luttik believes that less can be more and by result, Songs from a Lonely Room is the kind of one man-project that ensures the message gets across properly. From the Leonard Cohen-pun of the title, the unsettling art cover (that electrical wire looks like a rope, indeed) and the Moai statues that inhabit the booklet, Luttik wants you to know there's no excess here, no superfluity, no pretensions, not a wasted note. There's also an actual Cohen-cover here - a suitably monochrome "I'm Your Man" - and as could be expected, it's as minimal as they come. In fact: apart from the reprise of the title track, during which he's backed by a symphonic brass band (and to great effect), there's nothing but skeleton songs here. Vocals, bass, guitar and the occasional keyboards, mostly played by Luttik himself. What he seems to express above everything else is th
