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By SHARON JENNINGS
Jesika von Rabbit has released her new album Dessert Rock, a creative musical work that brings together all the important elements of life east of Los Angeles and beyond.
With titles like “Mushroom Haired Girl,” “Make Me Feel Better,” and “Palm Springs Living” it’s easy to see that Jesika and her troupe take mostly the love side in a love-hate relationship with the desert. The album’s name is an apparent play on the term “Desert Rock” a niche of California-style music so called for its origins in the unusual and “spiritual” destination known as the Southern California lands east of LA.
Jesika von Rabbit – Photo courtesy of von Rabbit
Joshua Tree and the Creative Environment
They say that retreating to the desert in the Joshua Tree region brings a certain indescribable quality to creative work, whether it’s painting, poetry or music. This is obviously true in the case of von Rabbit, as this clever and colorful work simply had to be commissioned from above.
The album’s name and its collection of songs brings the listener back to a time when people used to buy an album to have an adventure. And Dessert Rock on Dionysus Records does not disappoint in this regard.
Von Rabbit takes the listener along with her on an Alice In Wonderland-style adventure, meeting characters who, if you suspend your disbelief, you could actually meet along the way.
The LP Dessert Rock is the second solo album by the talented musician who has a voice like an angel if she one day chooses not to be a mint-colored she devil musical temptress. Von Rabbit’s style is pure musical vixen and she uses her good looks and great songwriting to lure in unsuspecting fans.
Stream or buy ‘Dessert Rock’
Stream or Buy Dessert Rock here
And her fan base is growing. Von Rabbit’s first solo project since the disbanding of her former group Gram Rabbit, the 2015 release Journey Mitchell, showed a glimpse of what she is capable of. The latest album points out her musical maturity and efforts to keep this road she travels a fun one, not an easy thing to do today.
Von Rabbit harnesses one of the best voices in music today and uses it for good. Props go to the musicians on the album, Ethan Allen on guitar, Lee Joseph on bass and drummer Dan Kashuck, for creating an environment that makes the listener stop and pay attention to every sound on this great work. Allen produces.
In a world that is filled with so much division, it’s good to see that there are creative musicians out there like Jesika von Rabbit to lift us out of the doldrums.
Von Rabbit plays some dates around SoCal: Oct. 5 at the Joshua Tree Music Festival, Oct. 8 at The Hi Hat in Highland Park and Pappy and Harriet’s Halloween Party on Oct. 27.
Dessert Rock
1. Calypso Facto
2. Palm Springs Livin’
3. Make Me Feel Better
4. Children of the Dust
5. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
6. Innuendo
7. Going Down
8. The Mushroom Haired Girl
9. My Medicine
