David Ramirez - All The Not So Gentle Reminders (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The first key to All the Not So Gentle Reminders, the sixth album by singer-songwriter David Ramirez releasing on March 21, is “Maybe It Was All a Dream,” the moody, elegiac song that opens his first LP in five years.

There are no lyrics to spell it out for the listener. It’s an instrumental, mostly a synthesizer riff over drums and a stately organ interspersed with a muffled, mysterious, and unintelligible voice. It’s more about mood – think Twin Peaks – than anything specific.

“The connection I have with it, which is a little too personal for me to share, it just felt right to open the record,” Ramirez said. “I had already gone into it knowing that I wanted some very long and dreamlike intros and outros to some of these songs. So it just seemed like a very fitting thing to have it all tie in by introducing the record with a musical number.”

The second key to the album is “Waiting on the Dust to Settle,” the second track, where Ramirez confides he doesn’t yet know where he’s headed.

“Amen, I can see it in the distance, the potential for a new beginning,” he sings. “I don’t recognize this place anymore … [I’m] waiting for the dust to settle.”

In our BGS interview below, you’ll learn the identity of the third key song on All the Not So Gentle Reminders, why it took so long to record and release the new material, and how the album’s lush string arrangements are a sign of the maturation of the artist.

TRACKLIST

1. David Ramirez - Maybe It Was All A Dream
2. David Ramirez - Waiting On The Dust To Settle
3. David Ramirez - The Music Man
4. David Ramirez - Dirty Martini
5. David Ramirez - I Got People
6. David Ramirez - Twin Sized Beds
7. David Ramirez - Deja Voodoo
8. David Ramirez - A Bigger World
9. David Ramirez - Holiday (Crush)
10. David Ramirez - Nobody Meant To Slow You Down
11. David Ramirez - Do Not Disturb Me
12. David Ramirez - Dreams Come True



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