Name: Andrés Miguel Cervantes 'Songs For The Seance' Record Release
Start: 2025-11-02T19:00:00
End: 2025-11-03T01:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

Speakeasy Studio presentsSUNDAY NOV 2ND—<h2>Andrés Miguel Cervantes Noelle &amp; The Deserters</h2><h2>Andy Cabic (dj set)</h2>—Doors 6:00pm / Show 7:00pmADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Ave, Albany • 21+— <h2>Andrés Miguel Cervantes</h2>—Andrés Miguel Cervantes is a folk/country singer-songwriter and a finger-picking guitar player who is bringing back his western noir desert soundscapes on November 1st with the release of his second full-length album,Songs for the Seance.Born and raised in San Diego, while calling the SF Bay Area home, Cervantes' music is influenced by songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and Fred Neil, and singers such as Vicente "Chente" Fernandez, George Jones, and Merle Haggard.His debut album, The Crossing, was released in 2022 by Speakeasy Studios SF, an independent label owned and operated by the producer Alicia Vanden Heuvel. Andrés has sold out venues such as Pappy and Harriet's in Pioneertown and Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and he performs regularly at venues in California and the Southwest.Cervantes' lyrics and songcraft are distinctly his own, with beautiful, haunting images of landscapes both internal and external delivered with his virtuosic folk guitar finger-picking style. His songs are suffused with a dreamlike atmosphere and performed with a unique vocal range. His latest album, Songs For The Seance, is a meditation on the collection of memories that live inside all of us, whether they are experienced, dreamed, or inherited from our ancestors. It touches on themes of identity, the need for belonging, loss, isolation, and hope.Like his debut, The Crossing, this new album was recorded to Otari ½" 8 track with collaborator and producer Alicia Vanden Heuvel. There is a warmth present in his recordings, and the sonic landscapes he creates break new ground in the tradition of American western country folk music. The album takes the listener on a poignant, poetic, thoroughly relevant, and well-crafted musical journey.<h2>Noelle &amp; The Deserters</h2>—Noelle &amp; The Deserters bring South-Western honky tonk from the high deserts of New Mexico to the golden hills of California. Fronted by singer-songwriter Noelle Fiore, their music draws inspiration from the likes of Emmylou Harris, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, J.J Cale, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and the great outlaw country players. The Deserters include seasoned players Graham Norwood (guitar), Alicia Vanden Heuvel (The Aislers Set)(bass), David Cuetter (Tarnation)(pedal steel), and Jerry Fiore (Sonic Love Affair)(drums), all based in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Noelle was raised in Taos, New Mexico. As a guitar player and vocalist, she was a founding member of Sweet Chariot, singing and playing guitar/ banjo. Later, she and Tim Cohen (The Fresh &amp; Onlys) founded the band Magic Trick, recording four full length albums for labels Hardly Art and Captured Tracks. Noelle is also a current member of the Shannon Shaw Band, on guitar and vocals.High Desert Daydream is Noelle &amp; The Deserters debut album, out on Speakeasy Studios SF. The songs on the album touch on life in the west, growing up in Taos, living in California, songs of love, memory, marriage, work, good times, and bad times. Like all classic country music, the songs are infused with a sense of real-life struggles and living life in the everyday. Noelle’s incredible voice carries the album, and her songs are at once moving, powerful, tender, humorous, and intimately relatable.<h2>Andy Cabic</h2>—Andy Cabic of Vetiver’s musical being is, like many curious 21st-century musicians, shaped and sustained by divergent tangents. If he’s not crafting a melancholy folk rock diamond in his Northern California studio, he’s moving a dancefloor with bossa nova or house DJ sets, or helping curate a compilation of Japanese City Pop.