Velvet Two Stripes Banishing Any Bad Spells

Out now on Phonag Records is “No Spell For Moving Water”, the new album of Velvet Two Stripes.

Velvet Two Stripes make no bones about it: they like their rock hard, straight and irresistible. The title of their new album, “No Spell For Moving Water”, makes their attitude clear. Together for fifteen years, sisters Sophie Diggelmann (vox, guitar) and Sara Diggelmann (guitar), and Franca Mock (bass, vox) may have occasionally lost their way in earlier days. However, over the past three or four years, any doubts have been banished. Like water that no bad wizard or witch’s spell can derail, they follow their path with panache and conviction.

“No Spell for Moving Water” was recorded at breakneck speed with producer Dominik Schmidt in a studio on the far side of Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, in Vancouver, Washington (the twice-daily journey is documented in one of the new songs, “Interstate Bridge”). The fact that the band arrived for their recording sessions with only two completed songs plus a number of sketches and ideas was due to circumstances more than design. Exhausted after several lengthy spells on the road, they’d simply not had the time to work on new material in more detail. Thus, their two-week stretch in the Northwest of the USA was spent almost entirely in the studio, recording pretty much one song a day. The intense working process, supported, incidentally, by guest drummer Joey Harmon, has resulted in a riotously dynamic album choc-a-bloc full of fine riffs, rousing (and rousingly short) guitar solos and memorable songs.

Velvet Two Stripes
Dominik Schmidt
Phonag Records