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RAINSHADOWER
Poze
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HEAR THE FIRST SINGLE
“COLD COMFORT OF GREY
DAYS”
FEAT. ALEXANDRA
LOCKHART OF CUMULUS PHOTO CREDIT: TOMMY CALDERON
“I booked some time at The Unknown, knowing
it would force me to get my ducks in a row,”
Charred Scars was recorded at The shares Ball. Over the course of the next few
Unknown in Anacrotes, WA, a recording months, he tracked the record that would
studio nestled inside the upper floor of an become Charred Scars, and once that work was
early 1900s Catholic church. Ball was mostly done, he set about putting lyrics to the
introduced to the space while recording instrumental music he’d recorded, developing
an album for the metal/hardcore/stoner the words and vocals, often while going for long
band he plays in called Dryland, and walks through the forest.
decided it would be a great place to track
his first Rainshadower album. Rainshadower’s Charred Scars is an aural
window into the transcendent beauty of the
As a result of the downtime during the Pacific Northwest. A poetic examination of
pandemic, he’d already been actively universal themes that will resonate with
whittling down hundreds of voice memos listeners whether they are looking inward or
of instrumental song ideas (mostly outward, as Ball explores both the natural world
composed on the Rhodes), arranging, that surrounds us and the deepest corners of
refining and adding layers of other the mind.
instruments such as vibraphone and slide Stay tuned for further announcements in the
guitar until he had 10 tracks demoed. coming weeks.
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