Ruby Of Thanks :: In Another World
Artwork: Rakel Stammer
From the meticulous mind of Kingston, New York-based multi-instrumentalist, carpenter, athlete, house painter, and jack-of-all-trades Andy Weaver (Mail The Horse) comes his debut classic “In Another World” from his already beloved solo project, Ruby Of Thanks. Having first established the project with the release of his 2019 cassette under his own name, the musician has been releasing music for nearly two decades, and he’s only grown more comfortable and compelled to keep his fleshy finger on the poetic pulse of song-making. While capturing the elemental excellence of solitary confinement within nature’s never-ending narrative of peace, sonic swells, and melodies of meditation, Weaver weaves his spiritual songs with the tonal tears and creative complications of the soul, while simultaneously balancing the weird world that sometimes breathes down our necks with its hot, harmonious breath. With a sudden storm bravely building in the dusty distance, you feel the soft swells of Weaver’s acoustics acknowledging an atmosphere that is both romantic and gentle with its gestures to the outside world that’s listening from the sidelines during this eager excavation into the hallways of the heart. The music began its jovial journey in the historic heritage of Maiden Lane in Kingston, an infamous street in Lower Manhattan, which got its name from the Dutch colonial days. It was originally a footpath known as Maagde Paatje (Maiden's Path), where young Dutch women would go to wash their families’ laundry. Weaver ties these traditions and fundamental facts of the area into his artistic approach, as the intensity of inspiration from touring with so many great bands began to push his born-again boundaries to a whole new level.
Joined by a high school friend and drummer Eric Morgan, and Otto Hauser, who also plays percussion, and Rick Spataro, whose impact is priceless within the DNA of the album’s anatomy, Weaver combines the natural world with his intimate interests in the lyrical landscapes that seem to define the tonal threshold of the project’s persona. Originally self-released back in 2020, and eventually reissued as a limited edition cassette by the Lodi, California-based label Primordial Void in 2024, “In Another World” returns to the eager orbits of earth’s primitive pull with open arms from the Woodsist family, and will soon have its first release on vinyl in the foreseeable future. Recorded in Albany, New York, in May of 2019 and 2020 by longtime bandmate and creative collaborator Rick Spataro, “In Another World” is an honest body of work that swoops and dives from one carefully constructed cliff to the next in all of its gentle glory. Featuring tracks like “Nighttime Way”, “Joey Ripple”, “Focus Blue”, and the album’s brilliant opener “Yin Car”, Ruby Of Thanks migrates into the mysterious mountains of the mind, only to return bearing gifts of harmonic memories once forgotten, and the steadiness of rhythm of an artist that has found his vocabulary and voice.
