Son Of The Velvet Rat – Ghost Ranch
Son Of The Velvet Rat – Ghost Ranch
Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital
Label: Fluff & Gravy – Distributie: Bertus
Release: 2024
On September 9th, 2022 at the Harrison House in Joshua Tree, Georg and Heike debuted a collection of songs that would later comprise Son of Velvet Rat’s ‘Ghost Ranch’ studio album
A sacred space to present these new pieces, stripped-down to their most essential elements: two voices; one gruff and anchoring baritone, the other lifting in weathered hope, over six strings danced upon by Georg’s possessed spider-fingers, every note plucked with intention. A bare-boned outpouring, reverberating through the House like Midnight Mass in a rare church brave enough to explore the complexities of love.
That night, which ended with a refreshing baptismal monsoon as we walked out to our cars, would have to be preserved in the amber of memory until Georg and Heike would properly document the pieces at Gar Robertson’s Red Barn Studio in Morongo Valley the following spring ’23, before finishing the album in Austria.
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Tracks:
01. Bewildering Black and White Moments Captured on Trail Cams
02. Are The Angels Pretty?
03. Beautiful Day (with Jolie Holland)
04. Deeper Shade of Blue (with Jolie Holland)
05. The Golden Gate
06. Rosary (with Jolie Holland)
07. Southbound Plane
08. New Frontier
09. Kindness of the Moon
10. The Waterlily and the Dragonfly
11. Cicadas