ROUGH SILK's Ferdy Doernberg has checked in with the following update on his forthcoming solo album:

"Dear friends,

Yesterday I came back from Hamburg, where my new album Travelling Light was mastered by Michael Hankel, the guitar player from HOLY MOSES at his Blue Castle-Studio. Michael did a really great job! The album sounds very warm and is not compressed to death. I'm very happy with the result. The album contains 16 tracks. Here are the songtitles :

'Does A Dobro Rust When You Play It In The Rain?' (instrumental)

'Shed A Tear'

'In Search Of A Catchy Chorus'

'E.T. Phone Home'

'A No-haired Hippie Like Me'

'Keep Me In Your Heart When I'm Gone'

'Along The Road'

'May God Save Us From Religion' (duet with Joseph Parsons)

'Jugband'

'All The Things You Do'

'Integrity' (featuring Sabina Claassen & Michael Hankel)

'You Don't Know What You've Got 'Till It's Gone'

'Wah-Whoopf' ( instrumental )

'Travelling Light'

'The Suburbs Of Paradise'

'Django Meets The Undead Scotsman' ( instrumental )

'Mutants At The Shopping-Mall' (duet with Johnny Gioeli)

'May God Save Us From Religion' is a duet with Joseph Parsons, who co-wrote the song, too. The same goes for Johnny Gioeli on 'Mutants At The Shopping Mall'. All the other songs were written by the Ferdman alone.

The drums were played by Mike Terrana, Alex Wenn and my brother Curt. The bass tracks were performed by Anke Sobek (also double-bass), Ecki Huedepohl and André Hort. Katja Krause sang harmony vocals on 3 tracks. I sang and played everything else apart from one song "integrity" where Michael Hankel played electric guitars. Sabina Classen (Holy Moses) sang a duet on the same song with me. Most of the album was recorded at my studio (the Droehnwerk) at Bad Nenndorf and additional recordings were done in New York City and Hamburg.

The album is again a singer/songwriter-album with a lot of slide-guitar and many acoustic parts - but also has it's 'rock' moments. I'm really happy with the album. It will be released in Europe on Rebellion-Records in December. I'll keep you updated."

Yours,

Ferdy

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