27/04/2025
Van Walker returns to the Rocket Lounge on
Sunday, 15 June,
2 - 5pm,
$25 per person.
Tickets via Trybooking or at the door.
Van Walker returns from his award winning album Ghosting (2020) with HEALING DESCENT (2024). Ten very personally powerful songs written around the spring of the first major lockdown (2020).
"That first spring of lockdown really packed a wallop after such a strange, dark time," says Van. "The man-made world might have ground to a halt (due to the virus), but the natural world rolled on, and the very first day of spring was abuzz with new colour and scents and insects going about their business. But most importantly, Promise. The real world was alive and completely oblivious to our troubles, and it was impossible not to be moved and buoyed by that. So the songs started pouring out celebrating that miracle."
Feel good songs such as Persephone's Return and Her Gentleness that sparkle with optimism.
"It was also a time of refuge from the ruin of the preceding period that bore my previous album, Ghosting. It was as if I too had come full circle and survived, ready to bloom and go busily about my business once again. So there's an undercurrent of that going on too. Ruin & Refuge. Death & Reanimation. There's also songs on the album about those who didn't survive that time (Certainty of Sand), and the heart wrenching darkness of the journey that isn't a certainty."
