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Lullabies, Love Songs, and Laments

by Valentine Wolfe

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about

Why Lullabies, Love Songs, and Laments ? These songs are all about the shared experience of being human. As we wrote, we saw that theme of the richness of emotion was emerging: Love in all of it's forms, loss, regret, promise, and desire. We've embraced the concept that that thinking of grief as another form of love is really helpful. And just like a broken vessel put back together with gold, we’ve been learning to let go of the concept of “good as new”.

Sometimes, there really is no going back.

Lullabies, Love Songs, and Laments offers a glimpse into an entire spectrum of feelings and emotion, celebrating the paradox of experience…the bittersweet essence of life.

We’ve written 9 songs that reflect our love of all things gothic, haunted, and otherworldly. As with every Valentine Wolfe album, we worked hard to present more of what we feel makes our music a reflection of us: you’re going to hear haunted choruses of Sarah, maelstrom metal riffs that are essentially caprices for solo bass, haunted atmospheres and fragile neo-classical textures that give way to waves of gothic metal.

Deep into the darkness, dreaming…

credits

released September 2, 2022

Sarah Black: vocals, piano, synths
Braxton Ballew: 5 string double bass, drum programming

Mixed by Valentine Wolfe with assistance from Corwyn Bellavich and Neil Lee Griffin
Mastered by John Scrip at MASSIVE Mastering - Chicago, IL, USA

Artwork by Egregore Design. Special Thanks to Aristotle Pramagioulis for being able to see our music.

Recorded at Studio Valentine Wolfe Mark 2 (as of this writing, Summer 2022, located in Greenville, SC)

Produced by Sarah Black and Braxton Ballew

Valentine Wolfe is a proud member of Hatton Cross Steampunk

Special Thanks to Jacob Bradford (4Strings) and Brian Gencarelli (Gencarelli Bass Works) for keeping Braxton’s basses and bows in excellent working order.

This recording would not have been possible without the support of the Valentine Society. In particular, we would like to extend extra special gratitude to our Acolytes and the Children of the Night:

Dayanira Reyes & Xavier Muñiz
Marco Iannello
Chris Carothers
Karen (Terpette) Carothers
Corwyn & Jenn
Jillian Venters
H. Khan
Mikey Effing Mason
Chuck and Kim
Charlotte and Ken Kennedy
Heiko and Christa DeWald
Ora and DJ
Jeanne And Ross Wilkins
Wendy
Alexandra and Kyle
Phil Carter
Steve McDonald
Stephanie Griffin
Joey and Matt
C.B. and Debbie Ballew
Mikie Wagy
Miss Traysie

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Valentine Wolfe Greenville, South Carolina

Two morbidly fascinated musicians combining ambient solo bass, brutal distortion, electronica, and 18th century opera to tell a story of the macabre.

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