New music
Vera Sola will release new EP ‘Ghostmaker’ on November 15th.
The songwriter’s recent album ‘Peacemaker’ enchanted all who came across it, with her gentle artistry resulting in a transportive experience. In an 8/10 review CLASH wrote:
The record holds a conciliatory anger at a civilisation that can’t save itself from itself. And through an exploration of war, bloodspill, loss and confusion Vera Sola has continued to tell her story, and invite us into her arresting world.
New EP ‘Ghostmaker’ flips some of the songs from her recent album – a collection of new renderings, or re-imaginings.
The EP features contributions from Marissa Nadler and The Milk Carton Kids, and it lands on November 15th via City Slang.
A performance of ‘The Ghostmaker’s Daughter’ is out – dulcet and assured, the spectral Americana of the arrangement is coupled to a searing vocal.
Vera Sola comments…
This is a song that originally was set to be on my most recent album, ‘Peacemaker’, but didn’t fit sonically or thematically. Since the record release, however, it’s become a favorite to play. I’ve also received countless requests for where to find it. Here is the answer.
I re-recorded it following the first leg of the tour, and offer it up as just my voice and guitar, as close to what you’d hear from me on stage as possible.
In brief it’s a love story staged across lifetimes—which at its core touches upon the possibility of transformation and transcendence. The end of a romance doesn’t have to mean the end of love. All that ends offers a chance at a beginning.
Along with it is to come a handful of reimagined tracks from the full Peacemaker LP. Reimagined might not be the right word. Remembered is more like it; as I wanted to present what these songs were like when I wrote them initially.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Damon James Duke
