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In The Rain Shadow

Mark Vickness

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
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Tracks

High Desert; The Gorge; Alluvial Fans; Stillness (for Will); Roadrunner; Rupak (for Ty); Cloud Shadows; On the Cliffs of Mohr; In The Rain Shadow.

Personnel

Album Description

Scheduled for release in May, 2023, my third solo recording project (after Places in 2017 and Interconnected in 2020), In The Rain Shadow takes its inspiration mostly from moving to the high desert (California’s Owens Valley) in late 2020. I have always lived at sea level in or near a major city. Although the mountains – mostly California’s Sierra – have always been a respite and a home away from home, home was the city – the people, the air, the culture, the food, the thriving human energy. Covid changed everything. It deepened the joy I’ve always known as part of the experience of being in a beautiful place – a place with far fewer people, thinner, crisper air, and a different kind of energy born of being closer and more subservient to the natural environment. We live literally in the rain shadow, which is a meteorological term meaning on the sheltered side of a mountain range where there is less precipitation because of the wind patterns. Most of the titles on this recording are taken from geological or meteorological features we experience daily. They are intended to reflect this new appreciation for the opportunity to absorb the wonders of living in the rain shadow. It is humbling, awesome, peaceful, thrilling, tranquil and beautiful.

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