Performer: Saline Grace
Genre: Rock / Blues / Pop / Folk, World, & Country
Album: Border Town Shades
Released: 2007
Style: Alternative Rock
MP3 version ZIP size: 1281 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1245 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1347 mb
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 562
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Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Those Sinister Lands Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	1:09
2	Mercy And Deliverance Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	5:15
3	In My Room Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	3:44
4	A Good Man's Shadow Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	6:22
5	Border Town Shades Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:26
6	Stumbling Mary And The Tree At The Dry Riverbed Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:02
7	Stream Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:46
8	Theresa The Sinking Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	5:11
9	Nightly Sea Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	6:33
10	Mercy #2 Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	1:09
11	Endless Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:41
12	The Valley Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:14
13	Crossing Trails Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:45
14	Rudderless Raft Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	3:52
15	From The Fruit Of The Womb, The Liveliness And The Fatigue Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	5:21
16	Last Day Of September Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	4:40
17	Bird Song Written By – Ricardo Hoffmann	2:53

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – CdBaby
• Mastered At – Nepenthes Mastering

Credits

• Cover – Janka Thurn*
• Mastered By – Timour Klouche
• Producer – Ricardo Hoffmann

Notes

Saline Grace is the new project of Ricardo Hoffmann, who is known as the composer and poet of the German avant-garde band Nobility Of Salt. Supported by his long-term bass player and companion through life, Ines Pollok, the amazing multi-instrumentalist and singer presents his first solo album, called “Border Town Shades”. Strongly influenced by the works of Dostoevsky, Kafka and Bukowski, Ricardo Hoffmann has written claustrophobicly profound songs about desperation and the blackest depths of misery, candle-lit rooms full of tragedies, forlorn sinners and deceptive roads which are surrounded by broken telegraph poles, low-hanging wires, sadness and peculiarly grown trees, leading into nowhere and failure. He also tells us about the human’s eternal yearning for deliverance and his hope for God’s doubtful mercy, presenting now with Saline Grace a 17-track-album of incredibly emotional depth. On “Border Town Shades” his extraordinarily filigree guitar style has been woven into antiques such as piano, organ, banjo and marimba, building up together with Ines Pollok’s powerful bass, admonishing bells and stylishly played drums a remarkable mixture of Americana, psychedelic and folklore of old Eastern Europe which creates an oppressively sinister atmosphere. Within the centre of this soundscape, in the tradition of Nick Cave, And Also The Trees, Woven Hand or Leonard Cohen stands ominously, full of urgency and often with amazing warmth the marvellously narrative voice of Ricardo Hoffmann, who, like creeping out of the human psyche’s repressed depths, sometimes supported by means of using choirs, knows to celebrate his fateful tales and philosophic poems. Indeed, with “Border Town Shades” Saline Grace seems to roam a sinister valley on a rain soaked, covered wagon whose wheels pass through that muddy soil, where Nick Cave once laid down The Carny’s old nag named Sorrow.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 4260042621397