Animalia Music presents the debut Tone Ranger album, ‘DESERT ROSE’, a sonic journey across vast open landscapes, beneath blazing sun and star filled skies. Following a series of EP releases, this release is part of a larger episodic collection called ‘Peaks & Valleys’, a body of music that journeys from euphoric summits to the depths of ocean caves and the cosmos.

In this episode, guided by pedal steel guitars, violins, trumpets, synthesizers, percussion and voices; we gallop with wild horses through a tapestry of sounds. ‘DESERT ROSE’ moves with a dreamlike searching quality from radio frequencies to epic panoramas, arriving finally at the doorway to the next album (release fall 2022).
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released May 6, 2022

Recorded at Animalia Studios in Santa Fe, NM
Composed, produced & performed by Alex Simon

Sage Cornelius (violin)
Karina Wilson (violin)
Anna Schubert (soprano voice)
Chiefo Sanchez (trumpet)
Melas Leukos (vocals)
Gabriella Simon (vocals)

Mixed by Alex Simon
Mastered by Paul Salerno
Photography by Daniel Johnson
Design by Casa Animalia

Desert Rose

A journey up the El Camino Real highway. Casino after casino. Into the northern New Mexico expanse

Follow the Sun

Roadrunner

Vaporwave Lynchian dancescapes
Vocals by the Mojave's own Parker Ainsworth

Sound travels the distance of one wavelength

Distance

Wavelength

Perihelion

Mágico

Emerald

Reins

Palomino

Rolling

Wellspring

Shortwave

Bells, coyotes, spacious New Mexican landscape and sky...

White Sands

The cholla cactus, the tall grasses, the clouds, the sun, the moon, and the stars.  The mountains in the distance, those majestic blue giants that seem to trail off into infinity.  I feel a gratitude for space. For spacious. For endless. 

Music everywhere I look

Perception

On the Horizon

Lifeblood

Twang

Stereo Spring

On the Horizon (feat. Melas Leukos)

Paco Versailles - Shangri La (Tone Ranger Remix)

House Made of Sun celebrates the euphoric energy and pulse of the American Southwest.  Recorded by Tone Ranger out in the four corners desert, from the instruments you hear to field recordings of horses up in Northern New Mexico. The song is a portal out to the red rock landscape that it sprang up from. An invitation to dance in the sunshine
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Enjoy the journey

House Made of Sun

Deep house beats and desert timbres
City lights and desert stars
Dance floor euphoria
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"Don't Let Go"

Don't Let Go (feat. BlueBird)

Retro Southwestern Electronic
Santa Fe, NM

Tone Ranger

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