Candlelight and Cognac

“A Yuletide Love Affair” is a warm, romantic, and emotionally rich collection of 12 original holiday songs by Ropatt. Blending classic Christmas nostalgia with modern soulful storytelling, the album explores the many shades of love during the holiday season — longing, joy, reconciliation, and cozy intimacy.

A Yuletide Love Affair

A YULETIDE LOVE AFFAIR

An instrumental portrait of St. Louis shaped by river wind, red-brick warmth, and the quiet gravity of the Mississippi. The album blends dusty Americana with gentle brass, upright-bass pulse, and shadowed acoustic guitar, carrying the mood of old neighborhoods, steel bridges, and slow riverboats drifting past the Arch. Each track moves with unhurried weight—sometimes soulful, sometimes reflective—rooted in the sounds of alleyway drums, distant horn lines, and late-evening air. A warm, atmospheric journey through city memory, river history, and the calm glow of St. Louis after sundown.

Let It Flow

Eric Darius